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Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau

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MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau

August 24, 2023

The Pacific region needs to be fully informed about ongoing negotiations about the global digital landscape

Development

Bid to protect Pacific indigenous knowledge in the global digital space

Development

Clock ticking for Vanuatu’s state broadcaster – 6 months to reform

Development

From rags to riches to rags again – the Forum’s hidden cost for Nauru

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says Brown – wins confidence vote

Young people celebrate Bougainville Patriotism Day

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Most UPNG students don’t want independence for Bougainville, new survey shows

January 19, 2026

Across the Gaza Strip, the engineered humanitarian disaster

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

February 27, 2024

An Eastern Star cartoon paying tribute to Vanuatu's support for West Papua

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Vanuatu – West Papua – MSG: An epic saga of...

July 1, 2023

Senior ministers from Australia and Vanuatu initialled the Nakamal Agreement at the top of Mount Yasur. (ABC News: Lillyrose Welwel) Photo: ABC News / Lillyrose Welwel

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New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst

August 18, 2025

Small island developing states facing the lowest global ODA level since 2014

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Pacific nations among hardest hit as global aid drops, says OECD

July 2, 2026

A Cook Islands resident, Jackie Tuara,

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Former New Zealand PM Helen Clark blames Cook Islands for crisis

June 21, 2025

University students in Adelaide protesting over Israel's genocide in Gaza

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Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition

February 26, 2025

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Papuan landowners in PNG to receive first LNG project royalties of...

September 13, 2017

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NZ Foreign Minister questions China’s influence in the Pacific

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March 4, 2018

A New Caledonian resident places a vote at a ballot box in Nouméa

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New Caledonia votes first under tight security in French snap election

June 29, 2024

Australian journalist John Pilger addressing a Green Left-hosted public forum in 2014

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Vale John Pilger, at times a near-lone voice for truth against...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 1, 2024

An evicted mother and baby selling betelnut in their temporary tent village on the outskirts of the capital, Port Moresby

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Evicted PNG settlement fears collective punishment over gang rape and killing

April 4, 2025

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NCTV team drops in on AUT’s Pacific Media Centre and Screen...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 7, 2017

New French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

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French Senate endorses postponement of New Caledonia’s provincial elections

October 17, 2025

Professor David Robie

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

Pacific Media Watch -

October 20, 2022

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (right)

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Bougainville sets out full three-stage proposal for independence by 2030

June 25, 2026

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Governor Juffa, police crack down on PNG’s Collingwood Bay illegal logging

Pacific Media Centre -

March 20, 2018

A jubilant Oscar Temaru

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Historic pro-independence party poll victory in French Polynesia – video

May 2, 2023

Two of the three latest Lebanese journalists assassinated by Israel . . . Fatemeh Fatouni (left)

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How the US, Israel and Iran are controlling their media narratives

Pacific Media Watch -

March 29, 2026

Rifa Berliana Arifin, Indonesia's country director for the Sumud Nusantara initiative (centre)

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Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla

August 24, 2025

Kanak independence flag

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

January 1, 2022

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

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Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

May 26, 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"

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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

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...

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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Fans bid farewell to the Iranian team’s players outside their hotel in Tijuana, Mexico

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Iran’s heartbroken Team Melli exit World Cup amid silver lining of...

The Fiji police and military have launched controversial joint security operations to take down criminal networks in the country

Crime

Fijian widow alleges husband was beaten in police raid, told to...

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif

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Pakistan PM drops a ‘truth bomb’ on US about the Iranian...

Small island developing states facing the lowest global ODA level since 2014

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Pacific nations among hardest hit as global aid drops, says OECD

EDITOR'S PICKS

"Bread and bullets" by Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Requiem for America on the Fourth of July

A TPNPB resistance fighter stands guard on the charred aircraft remains

Asia Report

Fears of more conflict in West Papua after American pilot killed

"For Israeli diplomacy, the enemy is never merely the armed adversary"

Analysis

Monsters playing victims – how Israel’s Danny Danon twists his war...

Protesters in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau

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The West called it terrorism – Iran called it the architecture...

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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

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

"Bread and bullets" by Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Requiem for America on the Fourth of July

A TPNPB resistance fighter stands guard on the charred aircraft remains

Asia Report

Fears of more conflict in West Papua after American pilot killed

"For Israeli diplomacy, the enemy is never merely the armed adversary"

Analysis

Monsters playing victims – how Israel’s Danny Danon twists his war...

Small island developing states facing the lowest global ODA level since 2014

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Pacific nations among hardest hit as global aid drops, says OECD