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Author Angelina Hurley was caught up in the Kanak protests

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Amid Kanaky New Caledonia’s unrest, I saw first-hand the same colonial white privilege that caused it

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May 27, 2024

FMA's president Stanley Simpson

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Fiji news media ‘acted responsibly’ in questions over AG’s ego, says FMA

Indonesia's food estates land grab

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West Papua food estates threaten indigenous people, warns TAPOL

President Dr Hilda Heine . . . the region "must draw on the resourcefulness of Pacific women"

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‘We can’t solve the climate crisis without gender equality’, says Heine

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

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Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port predator fight goes on

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

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China matches US contribution to Pacific environmental body a week after...

January 15, 2026

Paula Whetu Jones (right) on finally completing her feature length documentary about the Auckland cardiac surgeon Dr Allan Kerr.

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The Kiwi heart surgeon, his wife and the film maker in...

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May 9, 2025

New Caledonia's President Louis Mapou

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

April 1, 2024

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Tess Newton Cain: How to turn democracy into autocracy

February 17, 2016

China's regional Pacific ambitions

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Kiribati ‘forced’ to allow China visit on Pacific mission, says journalist

May 27, 2022

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Tonga’s communications blackout ‘a problem out of their control’

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January 24, 2019

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New Vanuatu PM acts fast – Bauerfield airport repair contract awarded...

February 13, 2016

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Fiji may change mind over PACER Plus if labour mobility issues...

February 18, 2016

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Jokowi’s investment vision worrying environmental activists

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July 18, 2019

Dark Times Academy's Mandy Henk speaking at the Asia Pacific Media Network event

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How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and...

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April 26, 2025

Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai

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Vanuatu’s new Parliament elects Charlot Salwai as nation’s 11th PM

February 11, 2016

Ihumatao Eru Rakena

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Ihumātao: Powerful powhiri welcomes state ministers to protest site

July 27, 2019

The Frontier War documentary

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Wenda calls for international inquiry into film claim that Indonesia is...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 31, 2025

Hayat Al-Turki . . . I will show you the photo of my missing brother

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Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved...

December 14, 2024

Climate

New research highlights potential cost of climate resilience for Pacific countries

July 28, 2016

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

Jack Pidik Park in Port Moresby

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Governor Parkop takes back Moresby park for ‘benefit of our people’

August 27, 2021

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RSF plea to Indonesia to investigate reporter’s death in detention

Pacific Media Watch -

June 27, 2018

Touho airport control tower on fire

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Kanaky New Caledonia crisis: Kanak lawyer warns ‘separatism’ will worsen inequalities

July 16, 2024

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New climate journalism handbook targets ‘existential problem’

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June 22, 2019

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NZ bars Australian investigative journalist working for Al Jazeera

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March 7, 2020

Sugar Minister Charan Jeath Singh

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Fiji’s sugar minister condemns ‘disappearance’ of FICAC abuse allegation files

January 14, 2023

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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

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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Peace movement historian Maire Leadbeater

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Shane te Pou: Matua Pita Tipene, I wish you weren’t in...

West Papuan activist Paula Makabory (centre, holding banner) at a protest in Auckland in 2011

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West Papua activist calls on Pacific leaders to pressure Indonesia over...

KNPB international spokesperson Victor Yeimo

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West Papuan group urges Jakarta to put words into action on...

Australian Green Senator David Shoebridge seeking information from the Department of Home Affairs

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‘New level of bastardry’ – Australia releases NZYQ agreement with Naoero

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Australian Green Senator David Shoebridge seeking information from the Department of Home Affairs

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‘New level of bastardry’ – Australia releases NZYQ agreement with Naoero

Gaza and West Bank atrocities by Israel

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Palestine Forum condemns NZ for talk, no ‘meaningful action’ over illegal...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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NZ joins call to end Israeli settlement expansion, but not import...

Islanders in outrigger canoes selling tropical fruits off Dobu in the Solomon Sea

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Debt in the Pacific – systemic and current threats to regional...

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Australian Green Senator David Shoebridge seeking information from the Department of Home Affairs

Australia

‘New level of bastardry’ – Australia releases NZYQ agreement with Naoero

Gaza and West Bank atrocities by Israel

Asia Report

Palestine Forum condemns NZ for talk, no ‘meaningful action’ over illegal...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Asia Report

NZ joins call to end Israeli settlement expansion, but not import...

An idyllic scene at Taga Beach, Tinian, in the Northern Marianas

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A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C...