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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 chief

April 30, 2023

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Crisis? What crisis? A new PNG prime minister might not signal much change

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Samoan photographer wins ‘changing lives’ artist residency in Apia

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Torokina – a cryptocurrency with a dream to ‘rescue’ Papua New Guinea

PNG Prime Minister James Marape addressing the Australian Federal Parliament

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Marape thanks Australia for providing an ‘anchor’ for independent PNG

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka speaks to the Fijian community in Sydney

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Rabuka calls for Pacific peace zone – ‘We don’t want to...

October 20, 2023

PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

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Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections

May 28, 2025

Dr Biman Prasad

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Prasad condemns Fiji AG’s attack on FRIEND as ‘shameful, disgraceful’

June 3, 2021

Marshall Islands President Dr Hilda Heine during her keynote speech

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President Heine calls for ‘bold responses’ for gender equality in the...

July 27, 2024

Since the data breach, the Tongan government has said "a small amount" of information from the attack was published online. This included confidential information,

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Tonga cybersecurity attack wake-up call for Pacific, warns expert

July 2, 2025

Lawyer Greg Sheppard

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PNG police arrest Australian lawyer on K268m mining trust fund charges

January 22, 2021

Labor's Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese

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Dan McGarry: A new day in the Pacific – but will...

May 23, 2022

Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) has had its first meeting since 2012

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Banned for almost two decades, Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs is...

March 4, 2024

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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Marape seeks help from Australia, Singapore to fight PNG corruption

October 6, 2023

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Refugee, migrant culinary delights boost new diversity cookbook

Rahul Bhattarai -

November 13, 2018

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Regional fisheries, climate change, disaster risk management top Forum agenda

September 6, 2016

Grubsheet blog 200920

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

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September 20, 2020

Iranian spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani

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US bombing targets bridges and Pasteur Institute – ‘symbols of Iran’s...

April 3, 2026

Al Jazeera's senior political and media analyst Marwan Bishara

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Media analyst criticises Trump for applying ‘strategic coercion, economic blackmail’ policy

Pacific Media Watch -

February 22, 2025

Papua's Tom Beanal

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Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

May 18, 2026

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Education joins forestry against climate change in Vanuatu

Pacific Media Centre -

April 11, 2016

Maybrat, West Papua, refugees

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Indonesia accused of forcing mass flights of Papuans ‘for business’

September 8, 2021

A school bombed out by Israeli forces provides some shelter to a family in Khan Younis, Gaza

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Gaza had educational justice. Now the genocide has wiped that out,...

April 21, 2025

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Indonesia prone to cyber attacks up to the year 2025, says...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 30, 2018

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Miriori fires broadside at ‘rogue’ Bougainville mining rights bid

February 9, 2019

The Realm of New Zealand's four leaders

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New Zealand says its ties with its Realm countries remain strong...

August 29, 2026

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Fiji and Pacific countries must ‘band together’ over Trump uncertainty, says...

July 29, 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

“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

"'Ungrounding' is a kind of destruction that we have not seen anywhere else

Asia Report

‘Ungrounding’ – Eyal Weizman on Gaza genocide and Israel’s ‘architecture of...

Global progress against impunity for crimes against journalists has been reversed by the rise in incidents of journalists killed in conflict zones

Analysis

Journalism cannot survive where attacks on journalists go unpunished

A press conference at the Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua) office in Jayapura on 2 November 2026 discussing the shooting of three civilians in Nduga Regency on 23 October 2026

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Nduga shooting victims’ families ask Papua Legal Aid Institute to oversee...

The Solomon Islands coat of arms on Parliament buildings in Honiara

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Solomon Islands government moves to end ‘unstable coalitions, party defections’

EDITOR'S PICKS

Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June

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Eugene Doyle: Jesus wept – Pacific Forum endorses Israel and genocide

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...

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt

Democracy

Samoa government urged at UN to address declining media freedom

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under fire

Asia Report

‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

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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

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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

Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June

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Eugene Doyle: Jesus wept – Pacific Forum endorses Israel and genocide

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...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under fire

Asia Report

‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

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PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...