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Jubi Media Papua co-founder Victor Mambor in Suva

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West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout

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August 22, 2025

Pacific community members parade through Oamaru

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NZ election 2023: Pay parity an electoral issue among South Island Pasifika

Development

Sylvester Gawi: Papua New Guinea, a dream of the new Singapore?

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters with Minister for Pacific Peoples Shane Reti celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Cook Islands constitution in Tāmaki Makaurau

Development

‘Right to choose’ key to Cook Islands-NZ relationship, says Peters

The Heritage Foundation

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Trump-aligned think tank proposes ‘Pacific Charter’, greater US involvement in the region

Lord of the Flies film

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Where’s the Pacific voice in the viral ‘real Lord of the...

May 21, 2020

Development

Papua, Pacific youth and climate change to mark NZ conference

Michael Andrew -

October 16, 2019

Development

Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

January 28, 2026

French humanitarian assistance and disaster relief may offer lessons to inform coordination

Development

How Australia can partner more effectively with France in the Pacific

July 15, 2023

NCD Governor Powes Parkop

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Port Moresby public’s cry for safe public transport finally answered

April 20, 2022

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

Development

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...

March 8, 2026

Climate

New research highlights potential cost of climate resilience for Pacific countries

July 28, 2016

Development

Timor-Leste president to make first official visit to Indonesia

June 25, 2018

PNG Communications Technology Minister Tmothy Masiu

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A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook

July 20, 2024

Development

Barbara Dreaver: Mana counts … NZ needs the Pacific as much...

September 12, 2018

Tuvalu's Transport, Energy, and Communications Minister Simon Kofe

Development

‘We have to keep pressuring Australia to do the right thing’,...

October 27, 2024

A Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) rally held during the 2025 Samoan general election campaign

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Gearing up for the 2025 Samoan general election – three-way split?

August 25, 2025

The Gambier Islands

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French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

June 11, 2025

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Fiji advocacy group slams Indonesian role in MSG as a ‘disgrace’

June 25, 2025

How the front page of today's Samoa Observer covered the arrival of King Charles

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King Charles arrives in Samoa for ‘resilient environment’ CHOGM

October 24, 2024

Climate

Pacific leaders continue the push for 1.5 degrees

October 13, 2016

Across the Gaza Strip, the engineered humanitarian disaster

Development

Amnesty International accuses Israel of ‘defying’ ICJ ruling over genocide

February 27, 2024

Development

McCully launches new Pacific think-tank for ‘targeted research’

March 23, 2016

New Caledonia's Assembly President Roch Wamytan talking to news media in Baku

Development

‘Ambitious’ French political document presented to New Caledonian parties

September 14, 2023

Rival flags of influence in the Pacific - Israel and Palestine

Development

Activist slams Pacific’s ‘dreadful response’ to Palestine amid growing links with...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 22, 2025

PNG shipping of oil and hydrocarbons

Development

PNG oil and LNG shipments face foreign waters ban if waste...

July 16, 2024

Kiwirok villagers show some of the areas that have been bombed in the attack on their village

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Wenda accuses Indonesian troops of bombarding village in Star mountains

October 16, 2025

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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"

Development

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

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

POPULAR POSTS

PSNA flyers supporting Palestine

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Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru...

Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and rightwing Israelis under military protection storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque

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Palestine Forum of NZ condemns ‘provocative’ Israeli assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque,...

Dr Anna Naupa

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Vanuatu govt blasts chiefs’ demand to replace first female MSG head...

Iranian and Palestinian flags at a New Zealand rally against the war on Iran and the Gaza genocide

Asia Report

New Zealanders warned not to transit through MidEast as Trump threatens...

EDITOR'S PICKS

US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia

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Lim Tean: What is an American signature by Trump actually worth?

Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan

Asia Report

PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor...

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

Asia Report

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

The International Court of Justice in The Hague

Asia Report

Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on...

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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

US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia

Development

Lim Tean: What is an American signature by Trump actually worth?

Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan

Asia Report

PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor...

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

Asia Report

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

The International Court of Justice in The Hague

Asia Report

Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on...