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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Development

Cook Islands crisis: Haka with the taniwha or dance with the dragon?

February 10, 2025

Development

Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

Physicist and peace advocate Dr Peter Wills

Development

NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran

The implications of greylisting are far-reaching for PNG

Development

PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing

New Zealand spent $6.7 million over the last six years on the electrification project

Development

New Zealand holds out hope for halted PNG electrification aid project

Development

Experts warn over Indonesian plan for fast track environmental deregulation

February 15, 2020

Development

Miriori fires broadside at ‘rogue’ Bougainville mining rights bid

February 9, 2019

Labor's Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese

Development

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

May 23, 2022

Envoy for Women, Children and Youth to Marshallese President, Senator Daisy Alik-Momotaro

Development

‘Collaboration’ key to creating respect for women and girls, says Marshall...

July 27, 2024

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

Development

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

September 8, 2026

A big gathering of West Papuans in support of full West Papuan membership of the MSG took place peacefully this afternoon in the capital Jayapura

Development

Senior MSG official calls for Melanesia to remain neutral in geopolitical...

August 22, 2023

Development

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

Pacific Media Watch -

October 6, 2023

Development

Images: Fiji’s Daku village tackles the floodwaters problem

April 27, 2016

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

Development

Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

September 17, 2024

Development

Duma, Pok step aside in PNG’s Manumanu defence land probe

February 7, 2017

People waiting to vote in Bougainville’s capital Buka during the referendum on independence in 2019

Development

Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence

March 22, 2025

Development

Opposition will ‘not let up’ to planned seabed mining in Philippines

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

June 7, 2017

Development

Timor-Leste turns 20: Colonial past feeds problems of neocolonial present

Pacific Media Watch -

August 30, 2019

Development

‘Live, thrive in a new place’ – financing Pacific climate adaptation

August 31, 2017

Pal Ahluwalia Open DevPolicy 680wide

Development

The future of USP is at stake – do Australia and...

February 13, 2021

Association of South Pacific Airlines (ASPA) president George Faktaufon

Development

Fiji ‘bully of the region’ under former government, claims airlines chief

January 14, 2023

Thousands of Papuan protesters

Development

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

June 6, 2022

Māori Pati president John Tamihere

Development

‘We can learn from Chinese diplomacy’, says Māori Pati critic of...

June 9, 2022

Development

Indonesian president recognises land rights of nine more indigenous groups

November 19, 2017

Under the Cook Islands constitution, New Zealand cannot pass laws for the Cook Islands

Development

Nearly half of Kiwis oppose automatic citizenship for Cook Islands, says...

June 25, 2025

Thirty two newborns in Fiji have been diagnosed with HIV

Development

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

June 6, 2025

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

Development

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...

July 30, 2026

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Development

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Development

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

“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...

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi with her 95-year-old grandfather in Hebron

Asia Report

PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian...

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Development

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Democracy

Fiji PM Rabuka delays vote on Constitution Bill after mounting pressure

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (centre) has promised to press on with tabling the bill

Democracy

Fiji PM Rabuka under pressure ahead of crucial vote on constitutional...

A section of the cover of New Zealand author Peter Macky's new book, Gaza: Anatomy of a Genocide

Asia Report

NZ author praised over new book ‘bearing witness’ to Gaza genocide

Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai

Culture

Fiji military seeks end to constitutional immunity, pledges neutrality

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

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

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Democracy

Fiji PM Rabuka delays vote on Constitution Bill after mounting pressure

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (centre) has promised to press on with tabling the bill

Democracy

Fiji PM Rabuka under pressure ahead of crucial vote on constitutional...

A section of the cover of New Zealand author Peter Macky's new book, Gaza: Anatomy of a Genocide

Asia Report

NZ author praised over new book ‘bearing witness’ to Gaza genocide

Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai

Culture

Fiji military seeks end to constitutional immunity, pledges neutrality