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The Kanaky delegation in Paris

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Unfinished business over New Caledonian decolonisation – new challenges after ‘stolen’ referendum

April 19, 2023

This photo was shared by ULMWP on 10 February 2026, claiming a makeshift refugee camp in Puncak Regency of West Papua was bombed

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Confusion over West Papua bombing, displacement claims

NCD Governor Powes Parkop with a West Papua flag

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Pro-independence advocates urge MSG to elevate West Papua membership

World Press Freedom Day and climate crisis

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Tackling Pacific media’s crucial role in climate crisis and press freedom

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Radio storytelling and community empowerment in Philippines

Palestine's justice advocate Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh

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How Palestine fights ecocide with biodiversity and sustainability resistance

May 20, 2024

How the Lae edition of the PNG Post-Courier reported the crisis

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Internal tensions throw PNG anti-corruption body into crisis

June 5, 2025

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Village on the broken mountain – the plight of PNG’s quake-hit...

August 21, 2018

Pacific Islands Forum member country flags

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West Papua: The Pacific’s new test of Indonesia’s sovereignty narrative

September 7, 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

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Chinese president meets PNG’s O’Neill, pledging ‘deepening cooperation’

June 22, 2018

Black oil shipments

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PNG faces K105m Indonesian penalty for illegal black oil shipments

May 26, 2022

PNG anti-corruption drive

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PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’

May 25, 2023

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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Luxon’s Niue visit demonstrates NZ ‘commitment to development’

June 4, 2024

The K2.7 million PNG hole-in-ground

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K2.7 million hole, other failed PNG projects land contractors in court

September 9, 2021

People queue to vote in Bougainville’s independence referendum

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PNG’s ruling party supports 15-year transition period for Bougainville

June 22, 2026

Tongan Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pōhiva

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Tongasat’s appeal aimed at hindering suing former PMs, says Pōhiva

October 27, 2018

James Marape

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Marape urges PNG citizens to work together for ‘better nation’

September 17, 2020

Three flags in Tahiti

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French Polynesia’s economy on ‘good path’, says Paris-based institute

May 9, 2023

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Destruction and construction – Tukuraki’s lonely story of survival

May 9, 2017

The indigenous Kanaky flag adopted in 1983 and usually flown alongside the French tricolour under the Nouméa Accord

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Police protection for New Caledonian politicians following death threats

July 17, 2025

French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

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New dates for French minister Moutchou’s visit to New Caledonia

November 6, 2025

While PNG Prime Minister James Marape is criticising US climate policy

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Marape calls US climate backtracking ‘irresponsible’ in rethink plea to Trump

January 30, 2025

Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro

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Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history

March 15, 2025

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Vanuatu airport runway repairs usher in new tourism era

May 8, 2016

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Ex-Treasurer backs probe into LPG non-payments, slams ‘negligence’

June 14, 2017

Keeping the peace in New Caledonia

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New Caledonia votes to stay with France, but it’s a hollow...

December 13, 2021

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

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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

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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

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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"

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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

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Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

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Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

Vanuatu's MV Matui tragedy on September 11

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Seasonal weather chaos just part of picture of Pacific maritime tragedies,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

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‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits...

Fijian Media Association general secretary Stanley Simpson (right) greets Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka at the 8th Pacific Media Summit in Savusavu

Cook Islands

Rabuka urges Pacific media to verify facts, warns over rise of...

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Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation

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Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

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Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

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Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape and the Solomon Islands leader Matthew Wale

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‘Stop empty promises’ – Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands leaders demand...

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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

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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

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Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation

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Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

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Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

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Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

The Al Jazeera Media Network has repeatedly and vehemently condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli military - and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech