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Girmitiyas - Indentured labourers - in Fiji

New NZ theatre production highlights Fiji Girmityas’ struggles

June 11, 2023

Some of the Girmitiyas, indentured labourers in Fiji

‘Living museum’ will help bring Fiji’s Girmit experience by storytelling

May 26, 2023

A section of the Girmit Day holiday crowd in Suva yesterday

Girmit Day – Shaping Fiji through hard work, blood, sweat and...

May 16, 2023

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka with former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry

Historic Girmit Day apology accepted as Fiji enters new era of...

May 15, 2023

NZ Girmit group fights for ‘Pacific’ classification for Fiji-Indians

March 23, 2021

Neelesh Gounder: The legacy of the girmitiya in Fiji

May 19, 2016

Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry being held hostage

Speight’s Fiji coup had more to do with power, greed than...

May 19, 2025

A Girmit exhibition in Wellington

Fiji Indians in NZ ‘not giving up’ on Pasifika classification struggle

May 14, 2025

Fiji's sacked Women's Minister Lynda Tabuya

Fiji’s PM dismisses Tabuya as Minister for Women and Children

December 27, 2024

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in Auckland with the Fijian community for Fiji Day festivities

Indo-Fijian ‘listen to us’ plea to NZ over Pacific ethnicity classification

November 1, 2024

Fiji Parliament passes a motion to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Fijian lawmakers vote for truth-telling body to ‘heal coup pains, scars’

September 15, 2023

Fiji-born journalist Sri Krishnamurthi

Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist, storyteller...

August 7, 2023

Prime Ministers Sitiveni Rabuka of Fiji (left) and Chris Hipkins of New Zealand

Hipkins grants Fiji $11m in climate crisis aid as Rabuka renews...

June 8, 2023

Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma's President Reverend Ili Vunisuwai

‘Time is right for reconciliation’ – Fiji’s Methodist Church seeks to...

May 8, 2023

Jai Ram Reddy (right) and Mahendra Chaudhry at a meeting

Brij Lal’s tribute to Jai Ram Reddy – ‘a true son...

September 3, 2022

Lawyer Helen Reddy with her father Jai Ram Reddy

Helen Reddy: A tribute to my father, Fiji’s visionary Jai Ram...

August 30, 2022

NFP leader Professor Biman Prasad

Prasad accuses FijiFirst of ‘political gimmick’ in highlighting 1987 coup

May 9, 2022

Human rights advocate Shamima Ali

‘Shame on you, Fiji’, says human rights advocate over Professor Lal’s...

December 30, 2021

Professor Brij Lal

Professor Brij Lal: A champion of democracy and Fiji’s finest scholar

December 26, 2021

A loss of ‘Fijian’ identity – or no identity at all...

October 21, 2020

‘I was coerced into the 1987 coup,’ admits Sitiveni Rabuka

October 3, 2018

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

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

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

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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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

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One of many Rongelap people who had to leave their ancestral home via the Rainbow Warrior due to nuclear

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Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...

West Papua human rights advocate and independence leader Octo Mote

Civil Society

Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Octo Mote

The Rainbow Warrior III on the eve of the memorial service for Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira

Crime

‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of...

Journalist David Robie talking in a live cross to ABC News in Australia from the Rainbow Warrior dawn memorial service for Fernando Pereira on the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland

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Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing

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The Rainbow Warrior III on the eve of the memorial service for Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira

Crime

‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of...

One of many Rongelap people who had to leave their ancestral home via the Rainbow Warrior due to nuclear

Climate

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...

Journalist David Robie talking in a live cross to ABC News in Australia from the Rainbow Warrior dawn memorial service for Fernando Pereira on the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland

Crime

Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing

The Castle Bravo test was 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Civil Society

The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific...

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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

"Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995"

Climate

NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition

The Rainbow Warrior III on the eve of the memorial service for Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira

Crime

‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of...

One of many Rongelap people who had to leave their ancestral home via the Rainbow Warrior due to nuclear

Climate

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...

Journalist David Robie talking in a live cross to ABC News in Australia from the Rainbow Warrior dawn memorial service for Fernando Pereira on the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland

Crime

Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing