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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 region

July 27, 2024

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum

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Jeremy Rose: Mexico – the revolution isn’t being televised

The Pacific stupor/amnesia

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Canberra must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in the Pacific

Independent Jewish protesters take part in a rally for a permanent ceasefire and peace in Gaza

Development

Open letter from local Jewish Voices condemns Zionist ‘colonisation’ project

An artist's impression of Quay Park stadium - Te Tōangaroa

Development

‘Turn it into a retirement village’: Inside the war of words over Eden Park

The tougher new legislation has been introduced to target 'domestic terrorism"

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Tough new PNG police powers won’t work, says Transparency chief

July 5, 2023

Activist Mike Smith

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‘Affront to democracy’ – NZ law change halts landmark climate crisis...

May 12, 2026

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PNG LNG – failed predictions and PNG’s resource curse

May 1, 2018

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

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Resource rich economies dwarf the region, ADB conference told

KINJAP Peter S. -

July 18, 2016

Pro-independence Progressist Union in Melanesia (UPM) leader Victor Tutugoro (centre with hat) and the party’s political bureau at a media conference this week in Nouméa

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New Caledonia’s pro-independence split widens – another party quits FLNKS

November 21, 2025

Palika's Charles Washetine

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Two pro-independence parties in New Caledonia vow to continue fight

March 15, 2022

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More aid to Solomon Islands from Australia and New Zealand

June 7, 2019

Papuan environmental and human rights lawyer Yan Christian Warinussy

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From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate...

August 14, 2024

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Tough times ahead but Fiji’s coalition has ‘achieved much’, says PM...

April 5, 2023

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer at a pro-Palestinian rally outside the NZ Parliament

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Te Pāti Māori condemns Israel for Gaza ‘horrific violence’ over Madleen...

June 10, 2025

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) with Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar Gideon Moshe in Munich

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Fiji and Israel strengthen bilateral relations, plan embassy opening

Pacific Media Watch -

February 15, 2025

Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis

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Charlotte Bellis on Afghanistan: ‘It’s just life and death on so...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 31, 2021

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Samoan photographer wins ‘changing lives’ artist residency in Apia

July 21, 2016

John Taukave (left) from the Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport and Miss Samoa Litara Ieremia-Allan (second from left) at COP29

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COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit

November 30, 2024

Thousands of Bougainvilleans flocked to the polls on 23 November 2019 to vote in the referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea

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Bougainville 2025 election: What’s at stake?

August 31, 2025

VARS project for Vanuatu squatters

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World Bank grant to boost Vanuatu reforms for squatter settlements

August 1, 2022

Papua New Guinea's fuel crisis

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Puma Energy shuts down PNG nationwide – seeks US$100m to resume...

February 20, 2023

Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Sashi Kiran (second from left) with Fiji Women's Rights Movement staff during the launch of the research report "Beyond 33 percent"

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Females do 73 percent of unpaid housework in Fiji, says new...

March 5, 2023

Aotearoa Tongan Response Group's Anahila Kanongata'a (from left), Pakilau Manase Lua and Karlo Mila

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Tongan advocates condemn Treaty Principles Bill, slam colonisation

February 28, 2025

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Chinese President Xi’s early PNG arrival upstages APEC rivals

November 16, 2018

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group

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MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for...

August 26, 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

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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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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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Caretaker Prime Minister and Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown with supporters on election night

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Stability key driver in Cook Islands Party’s election performance, says analyst

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

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Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Killed Fiji military detainee Jone Vakarisi

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Four months on, still no charges in death of man in...

Trapped Palestinian Refqa Hassan watches as Israeli settlers have besieged her family home

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Qusra siege by Israeli settler ‘terrorists’ in West Bank persists despite...

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Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus

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West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian...

NSW Premier Chris Minns

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An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

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Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

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Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus

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West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian...

Paramedics from New South Wales led the rescue

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Whale-watching boat carrying NZ Anglican Church delegates capsizes in Tonga

NSW Premier Chris Minns

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An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

Analysis

Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...