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Participants at a Pacific Islands Festival in Europe show their support for the Free West Papua campaign

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Activist group praises Pacific support for West Papua but slams NZ

March 25, 2025

China's ambassador to Samoa Fei Mingxing (left) hands over a ceremonial cheque for US$200,000 to SPREP director of legal services and governing bodies Aumua Clark Peteru in Apia

Development

China matches US contribution to Pacific environmental body a week after Trump pulls out

SCO's Nurlan Yermekbayev

Development

Eugene Doyle: The quiet general – and the fast growing Eurasian region

Black Wednesday

Development

PNG businesses want grants, not loans over Black Wednesday riots

PNG families being evicted from Two-Mile settlement in Port Moresby

Development

PNG govt defends using tear gas, force to evict illegal settlers in capital

Fiji human rights protesters march through Suva City yesterday

Development

Violence against children in Fiji costs nation $460m, says Unicef study

December 11, 2024

Activist Mike Smith

Development

‘Affront to democracy’ – NZ law change halts landmark climate crisis...

May 12, 2026

Development

‘Staggering’ drop in PNG’s resource sector revenue hits development

August 17, 2018

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Development

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

Pacific Media Watch -

May 27, 2025

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Development

Climate crisis top Pacific agenda item and it’s a security issue,...

July 12, 2022

Development

PM steps in to halt Air Vanuatu’s planned termination of ni-Vanuatu...

July 26, 2016

Former Tuvalu prime minister Enele Sopoaga

Development

‘Completely stupid’ – ex-Tuvalu PM plea to NZ to rethink fossil...

May 9, 2024

A personal perspective on USAID as an organisation

Development

Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID

February 12, 2025

New Caledonia's President Louis Mapou

Development

French ‘nickel pact’ to bail out New Caledonia’s industry delayed

April 1, 2024

Grubsheet blog 200920

Development

Graham Davis: Why Bainimarama has slammed me in the Fiji ‘state’...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 20, 2020

Thai advocate and Miss Earth Thailand, Baitong Jareerat, calls for ocean protection

Development

‘Be brave’ warning to nations against deepsea mining from UNOC

June 16, 2025

Development

Fiji Airports face major financial disaster over Covid-19, warns chief

Pacific Media Centre -

March 11, 2020

Fiji Women's Rights Movement executive director Nalini Singh

Development

Nalini Singh calls for media coverage that ‘reflects realities of all...

July 13, 2024

Veteran Tahitian independence leader Oscar Temaru with his wife Marie at the UN

Development

France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia

October 5, 2023

"Affirmed, noted, endorsed" at the 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders summit media conference in Koror

Development

Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Koror – heavy on reaffirming but...

September 11, 2026

A nickel extraction truck in New Caledonia

Development

New Caledonia’s nickel French lifeline ‘pact’ in limbo

April 20, 2024

Development

Fiji’s devastated Tukuraki village moves to new site after landslide

October 29, 2017

Palestinians, forcibly displaced to the southern part of Gaza by Israel, make their way north

Development

The fake Gaza ‘peace agreement’ versus real peace with justice

October 12, 2025

Development

Step Up step in right direction, but Australia ‘needs to listen...

February 22, 2020

Professor Vijay Naidu

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Fiji universities criticised for ‘great shame’ of ignoring coup impacts

July 22, 2026

Protesters march down Auckland's Queen St

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Greenpeace protests Conservation Amendment Bill in downtown Auckland

September 19, 2026

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

Development

Time for France to grant New Caledonia independence, says Wamytan

July 13, 2023

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Development

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

“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

$A fractious campaign in NZ heralds a cliffhanger election – what to watch$

Analysis

A fractious campaign in NZ heralds a cliffhanger election – what...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Democracy

Fiji govt being ‘hammered’ by media, says Rabuka – defends repeal...

Türkye is hosting the COP31 climate talks from 9-20 November in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya

Development

COP31 opens in Türkiye as global temperature flirts with 1.5°C line

Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Analysis

‘Foreign agency’ – Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal is a US...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Julian Assange's 2017 prediction

AI

Caitlin Johnstone: They want to use AI to re-centralise control of...

Türkye is hosting the COP31 climate talks from 9-20 November in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya

Development

COP31 opens in Türkiye as global temperature flirts with 1.5°C line

Of the nearly 210 journalists killed in Gaza and Lebanon between October 2023 and October 2026, at least 71 were targeted or killed by Israeli soldiers in connection with their work

Analysis

Israeli military violence soars – 24 times as many journalists killed,...

Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins

Democracy

Hipkins accuses National Party of ‘manipulating’ NZ’s electoral system

MOST COMMENTS

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

Julian Assange's 2017 prediction

AI

Caitlin Johnstone: They want to use AI to re-centralise control of...

Türkye is hosting the COP31 climate talks from 9-20 November in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya

Development

COP31 opens in Türkiye as global temperature flirts with 1.5°C line

Of the nearly 210 journalists killed in Gaza and Lebanon between October 2023 and October 2026, at least 71 were targeted or killed by Israeli soldiers in connection with their work

Analysis

Israeli military violence soars – 24 times as many journalists killed,...

Business

‘A colossal mistake’ – Media Minister rules out coming to RNZ’s...