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Professor David Robie

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

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October 20, 2022

Thirty two newborns in Fiji have been diagnosed with HIV

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‘HIV shouldn’t be death sentence in Fiji’ – call for testing amid outbreak

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Tough times ahead but Fiji’s coalition has ‘achieved much’, says PM Rabuka

A Naoero detention centre in 2018

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Aid groups call on Pacific leaders to end Nauru refugee ‘stain in region’

Fiji's 2023 Budget

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Fiji’s 2023 Budget: Major spending and projects but high debt ‘on watch’

Kiribati dropped a bombshell at the Pacific Islands Forum

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NZ should show real solidarity with the Pacific by embracing climate...

July 30, 2022

Health Secretary Dr James Fong (right) speaks to Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica

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Mass migration of Fiji nurses may be curbed soon, says health...

April 30, 2023

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PNG government faces mounting pressure over Maseratis splurge

October 15, 2018

Thousands of Papuan protesters

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

June 6, 2022

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Refugee, migrant culinary delights boost new diversity cookbook

Rahul Bhattarai -

November 13, 2018

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

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’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

March 10, 2026

New French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

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French Senate endorses postponement of New Caledonia’s provincial elections

October 17, 2025

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Fiji stabilises, growth positive but still a big question over military...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

September 6, 2018

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‘Farm to Table’ plan will open door for many Pacific youth

March 15, 2016

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Experts warn over Indonesian plan for fast track environmental deregulation

February 15, 2020

A group of Papuan women and children wave Melanesian state flags

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West Papua’s customary region leaders back full MSG membership

June 17, 2023

Crowds gather in Tehran on March 9 to celebrate the appointment of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei

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Six months on, Iran is still standing but survival is becoming...

August 28, 2026

French security forces preparing to enter Saint Louis tribe area near the capital Nouméa 09April24

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Violent clashes in New Caledonia as tensions rise over nickel pact

April 10, 2024

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Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only

Pacific Media Watch -

October 6, 2023

Kanaky, Palestinian and West Papua flags flying at the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre last week during a protest against the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Suva

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Te Kuaka advocacy group calls for NZ transparent, independent ‘Pacific foreign...

June 9, 2026

Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr

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‘Act responsibly for humankind’ – Palau president on deep sea mining...

June 9, 2025

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Get rid of untrusted ‘public serpents’ in PNG, says Juffa

August 5, 2016

PNG village

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What are the lessons with Covid-19? Seeing the ironies through a...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 24, 2020

Pacific Journalism Review celebrates 30 years of publishing

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Pacific Journalism Review turns 30 – and challenges media over Gaza

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July 7, 2024

The Great Council of Chiefs review team holds a public consultation

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Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs reinstates native land lease policy

May 25, 2023

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China plans ‘greener, cleaner’ industry but faces complex challenges

June 20, 2016

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

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

August 4, 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

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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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Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

Cartoon: © 2026 Malcolm Evans

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Malcolm Evans: Lipstick on a pig – UK ‘resets’ Israel policy

Pacific locations could host intelligence and combat-support units

Asia Report

US think tank proposes military shift to Guam, CNMI and Pacific...

The Panguna mine arson attack

Bougainville

Mining company’s equipment targeted in Panguna arson attack

EDITOR'S PICKS

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...

"Put the greens last"

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Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

Labour's Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni

Civil Society

Labour promises visa-free travel for Pacific as overstayer rates rise

Zionist quartet

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Israel funded the legal assault on Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis

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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

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...

"Put the greens last"

Analysis

Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

Labour's Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni

Civil Society

Labour promises visa-free travel for Pacific as overstayer rates rise

Zionist quartet

Analysis

Israel funded the legal assault on Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis