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Pro-Palestine protesters set off a blood-red flare outside the US Consulate in the peaceful March for Peace demonstration in Auckland

Paul Hopkinson: Why NZ’s ‘Free Palestine’ party seeks to put Gaza...

June 23, 2026

PNG's Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women...

May 20, 2026

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies

May 26, 2025

Fiji opposition MP Premila Kumar

Why special measures to boost Fiji women’s political representation remain a...

April 24, 2025

Suva-based lawyer Sainiana Radrodro (left) and Fiji Women’s Rights Movement’s executive director Nalini Singh

Fiji quota proposal sparks debate on women’s representation in politics

January 16, 2025

More than 70 people died in tribal fighting in the PNG Highlands in February 2024

From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of...

July 31, 2024

More than 20 people have been reported dead

‘Only one meal per day’ – 20 die in PNG Highlands...

March 19, 2024

Women rights advocates in Papua New Guinea are calling on women to stand up against violence

‘National crisis’: PNG women demand MPs act against all forms of...

February 23, 2024

PNG Prime Minister James Marape makes plea to the nation's youth

Marape ‘can’t pass the buck’ for PNG riots, says East Sepik...

January 22, 2024

Tahiti's new Minister of Housing Minarii Galenon

Four women feature in Tahiti’s new Tavini Huira’atira government

May 17, 2023

Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre coordinator Shamima Ali

Fiji police apologise for West Papua politics ‘mix-up’ before Reclaim the...

March 9, 2023

Researcher Dr Hilary Smith

Domestic violence, isolation hit Pacific women during pandemic, says USP survey

December 6, 2022

Hope for women in PNG elections – Peter becomes lone female...

August 8, 2022

Madang's Sir Peter Barter (centre) passes on

PNG statesman Sir Peter Barter a strong supporter of the free...

June 25, 2022

Mama Helpim Mama's Ruth Undi Siwinu

‘Make history’ and vote in a woman instead of ‘failed’ men,...

June 16, 2022

PNG's Electoral Commission headquarters

PNG elections: People’s National Congress party endorses 90 plus candidates

May 26, 2022

Scott Waide: Memo to our younger people – go out to...

October 8, 2021

PNG Parliament Haus

PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new...

May 19, 2021

PNG Jackson Kiakari

Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise...

April 3, 2021

Sir Michael Somare

Obituary: Sir Michael Somare, ‘father’ of PNG and colossus of Pacific...

February 26, 2021

PNG to host first Pacific APEC – but is it leaders’...

October 28, 2018

While PNG promotes APEC big money, youth are building grassroots resilience

October 24, 2018

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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

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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

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

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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"

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

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

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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

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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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Healthcare workers protest in Melbourne

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‘Intolerable pressure’ – inside the Israel lobby campaign to coerce regulators...

The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral

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How Tehran turned Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral into a media event

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Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

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Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago

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The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World

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"FBI Director Kash Patel sounds super stoked about the chance to become a 21st century J Edgar Hoover"

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Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya

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NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead...

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

Jacinda Ardern

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

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago

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The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World

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Saige England: A tale of power being taken from the people...

"FBI Director Kash Patel sounds super stoked about the chance to become a 21st century J Edgar Hoover"

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Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya

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NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead...