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Bougainville's capital Buka

Bougainville to hold two long-delayed byelections due to deaths of members

January 12, 2023

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama announces the caretaker Bougainville Executive Council (BEC)

Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, names caretaker government

October 8, 2025

Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers

‘We want legitimate leaders’: Bougainvilleans head to the polls amid push...

September 5, 2025

Bougainville woman politician Elizabeth Tako Palin

‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s...

August 15, 2025

Iora Open MP Theonila Roka Matbob in central Bougainville

Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat

July 27, 2025

Former PNG national Parliament regional representative for Bougainville Joe Lera . . . "We will try to make big changes in addressing sustainable development"

Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development

July 23, 2025

ABG House Speaker Simon Pentanu will has issued the writs for the fifth general elections in September

Bougainville election process begins as writs issued for September poll

July 8, 2025

People queue to vote in Bougainville’s independence referendum in 2019

Bougainville takes the initiative in mediation over independence

April 22, 2025

People waiting to vote in Bougainville’s capital Buka during the referendum on independence in 2019

Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence

March 22, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (right)

PNG and Bougainville to hold more talks on independence issue

March 20, 2025

Stop treating Bougainville lightly, Sir Puka warns Marape

March 11, 2024

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Bougainville independence issue a ‘unity test’ for PNG, says Marape

August 14, 2022

Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) interim chairman Thomas Eluh

Young women ‘traded for votes’ in PNG, elections consultation told

April 13, 2022

Ishmael Toroama

Bougainville president-elect Ishmael Toroama – rebel, peacemaker, farmer

September 23, 2020

Some Bougainville voters ‘bullied’ into submission, says Momis

September 18, 2020

The Bougainvillean

Introducing The Bougainvillean … a new newspaper for the region

August 17, 2020

Bougainvilleans go to polls today in spite of first covid-19 case

August 12, 2020

Bougainville proposing constitution amendments, rejects ‘process’ claim

February 19, 2020

Panguna priest wins Bougainville seat – Alliance claims to have numbers

July 26, 2017

The Pacific 2025 year ahead

Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set...

January 4, 2025

Pacific Journalism Review celebrates 30 years of publishing

Amid decline in mainstream media trust, Pacific Journalism Review remains a...

July 11, 2024

Papuan students, with their body and face painted with the colours of the banned Morning Star flag

Indonesia’s new plans for Papua can’t hide its decades of failures

June 22, 2022

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate

Commentary

Rawiri shines at Kingmaker debate as Māori voters set to rock...

A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police...

Candidates Alani Fisher Taione, Lemauga Lydia Sosene, and Vicky Hau

Civil Society

Māngere voters left ‘wanting more’ as local candidates pitch for support

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Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police...

Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate

Commentary

Rawiri shines at Kingmaker debate as Māori voters set to rock...

A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

Delphina Soti. the general manager of Vinnies Tāmaki Makaurau

Civil Society

‘Poor becoming poorer’ – South Auckland foodbanks warn poverty is deepening...

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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Round 1 to the PNG Chiefs in NZ High Court

Australia

High Court declines NZ Rugby’s bid for interim injunction on PNG...

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police...

A focus on information-sharing between countries, which, on Fiji's part, requires a reform programme "to address fragmentation"

China

NZSIS to support Fiji intelligence review amid foreign ‘interference’ claims

Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate

Commentary

Rawiri shines at Kingmaker debate as Māori voters set to rock...