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Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

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Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Brown says the New Zealand-Cook Islands relationship is too strong

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Mark Brown rejects talk of ‘strategic shift’ in Cook Islands-New Zealand relationship

French President Emmanuel Macron speaking in Noumea today

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Macron in New Caledonia to bolster France’s Indo-Pacific strategy

The coastline on Futuna Island in southern Vanuatu

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Two small Pacific islands creating one big stink with France over ownership

PNG's Trade Minister Richard Maru

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PNG’s trade minister pledges China, Indon free trade deals are ‘in sights’

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Vanuatu’s Chief Kalsakau lifts coastal fisheries ban at Blacksands for Easter

April 14, 2017

President-to-be Moetai Brotherson

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Tahiti’s pro-independence ‘blue wave’ back at helm with decisive win

May 2, 2023

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Timor-Leste president to make first official visit to Indonesia

June 25, 2018

Solomon islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

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Dan McGarry: It’s how, not who in Melanesian politics

November 29, 2021

Thousands of Papuan protesters

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Yamin Kogoya: Fatal disconnect between Jakarta and West Papua worsens settler-colonial...

June 6, 2022

Indonesian Embassy response on West Papua

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UN human rights commissioner visit to West Papua on track, says...

September 4, 2026

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New climate journalism handbook targets ‘existential problem’

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June 22, 2019

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Dan McGarry: Strings attached, please – but the choice isn’t so...

June 26, 2018

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Digicel Asia-Pacific bridges the Digital Divide in PNG

June 2, 2016

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Kava industry bounces back after Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu

March 16, 2017

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Ex-Treasurer backs probe into LPG non-payments, slams ‘negligence’

June 14, 2017

Pacific Islander students have led the campaign for the ICJ to consider states' obligations to prevent climate change

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ICJ to begin hearings in landmark Pacific climate change case started...

December 2, 2024

PM Jacinda Ardern apologises for the Dawn Raids.

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Michael Field: On saying sorry – who next? The Banabans?

August 2, 2021

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Gary Juffa: Why these PNG elections are taking us towards dictatorship

July 2, 2017

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Future of Panguna mine at stake in PNG, Melbourne court...

May 11, 2018

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Moresby bilum market mum wants change with PNG elections

May 26, 2017

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Indonesian president recognises land rights of nine more indigenous groups

November 19, 2017

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Decolonisation in New Caledonia – who decides the future?

July 28, 2018

FLNKS president Christian Tein (centre) with Arnaud Chollet-Leakava and Laurie Humuni

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FLNKS boycotts Macron-convened Paris talks over future this week

January 14, 2026

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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Marape seeks help from Australia, Singapore to fight PNG corruption

October 6, 2023

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China coal plant building at crossroads amid carbon pricing reforms

January 18, 2017

Kanak independence flag

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‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year

January 1, 2022

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

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

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

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

In the Eye of the Storm

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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

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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

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...

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

Bearing Witness

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

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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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The Vanuatu ferry MV Matui

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Vanuatu ferry disaster: ‘It’s a miracle anyone survived,’ says rescuer

The Panguna mine arson attack

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Two shot, several arrested in clashes after Panguna mine arson

President Trump boasts of having the greatest military in the world

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Why can’t Democrats outshine a dangerous, unstable, delusional, egomaniacal Trump?

TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

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Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

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Protesters march down Auckland's Queen St

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Greenpeace protests Conservation Amendment Bill in downtown Auckland

Author Naomi Klein . . . "Either you bunker - either you just protect you and yours - or . . .

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‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor on billionaires, bunkers,...

Fiji's HIV crisis

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‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should...

TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

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Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

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Australia

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

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

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Gallery: ‘Save our land – sell Luxon instead’ message at NZ...

Fiji's 2013 Constitution

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Fiji targets new constitution by Christmas Eve as watchdog warns of...

Fiji's HIV crisis

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‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should...

TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

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Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...