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The Frontier War documentary

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Wenda calls for international inquiry into film claim that Indonesia is using chemical weapons in West Papua

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January 31, 2025

New Zealand's French Pacific territories Consul-General Felicity Roxburgh

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NZ consul hails long-standing ties with New Caledonia

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and Papua New Guinea's James Marape

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PNG’s Marape and NZ’s Luxon sign new partnership marking 50 years

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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PNG eyes China for more ‘cheaper’ loans as ties gain momentum

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Education joins forestry against climate change in Vanuatu

Development

500 US marines arrive in PNG to bolster APEC summit security

November 15, 2018

Kanak great chief Hippolyte Sinewami Htamumu

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Kanak great chief resigns from New Caledonia’s customary Senate

August 1, 2024

Tongan Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pōhiva

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

October 27, 2018

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

Tuvalu Foreign Minister Simon Kofe (left)

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Pacific leaders urged to look at Kiribati president’s concerns for unity

July 14, 2022

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

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Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 2025

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Indonesian president recognises land rights of nine more indigenous groups

November 19, 2017

Former NZ Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty speaking for West Papua Action Aotearoa

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Civil society groups call on Pacific leaders to ‘take responsibility’ over...

December 2, 2024

Development

Papuan landowners in PNG to receive first LNG project royalties of...

September 13, 2017

To describe Beijing’s engagement as “neocolonial” is to invite comparisons with the activities of the Western coalition

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Sea of Western flags in Oceania? It’s really about a continuing...

March 11, 2023

Lisa Taouma

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‘This is for you’ – 24 Pasifika New Year’s honours recipients...

December 31, 2022

"Gaza isn't for sale" . . .

Development

How would Israel respond if Trump called for death camps in...

February 14, 2025

Window Jen Emeke and mother of two

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‘We slept in the open,’ say PNG evicted widows who bought...

July 14, 2024

Development

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

Pacific Media Watch -

January 24, 2019

Development

PNG to host first Pacific APEC – but is it leaders’...

October 28, 2018

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

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China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

Vanuatu police

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Some detained Chinese accused were Vanuatu support citizenship applicants

July 5, 2019

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New Zealand PM’s diplomatic debacle and geopolitical hypocrisy over Fiji

Pacific Media Watch -

June 22, 2016

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Media face blockade over human rights reporting in Myanmar

November 8, 2016

Former Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio

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Former Pacific minister ‘lights fire of spirit’ supporting Māori at unity...

January 23, 2024

Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama (left) with Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna in Suva

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Pacific Islands Forum ‘on course’ as China issue casts shadow

July 12, 2022

RNZ will continue to lease back 12 ha of the regained Whitireia whenua

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Ngāti Toa Rangatira celebrates return of sacred maunga Whitireia from RNZ

October 17, 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

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

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...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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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

The opening of the 2026 session of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (C-24) meeting

Development

Renewed UN calls for decolonisation action on New Caledonia, French Polynesia,...

Political party posters on display at the Nouméa Town Hall

Culture

Campaigning in full swing as New Caledonia heads toward crucial provincial...

The whistleblowing soldiers of 1967 admitted their job was not to “fight the enemy” – or “eradicate the terrorists”, as Israeli leaders now term it. It was to kill and terrorise Palestinian civilians

Analysis

Jonathan Cook: How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago

"You blow up a girls' school."

Asia Report

Tucker Carlson: Facing up to the Iran war irony – who...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Gaza flotilla humanitarian activist Hāhona Ormsby

Asia Report

‘Take this seriously’ – flotilla activist claims beating allegations ignored by...

Children have clear advice for politicians at Auckland's March for Peace

Asia Report

People power against Trump’s wars – act against NZ ‘war mineral’...

Iranian American international affairs professor Vali Nasr

Development

Trump’s war on Iran ends with a ‘triumphant’ Tehran and a...

Israeli Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman

Analysis

Gaza flotilla victim blaming – time to expel Israel’s ambassador

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

Gaza flotilla humanitarian activist Hāhona Ormsby

Asia Report

‘Take this seriously’ – flotilla activist claims beating allegations ignored by...

Children have clear advice for politicians at Auckland's March for Peace

Asia Report

People power against Trump’s wars – act against NZ ‘war mineral’...

Iranian American international affairs professor Vali Nasr

Development

Trump’s war on Iran ends with a ‘triumphant’ Tehran and a...

Joseph Auga Matamata aka Viliamu Samu in court

Crime

Hawke’s Bay enslaver and human trafficker Joseph Matamata granted parole