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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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Mark Brown: Cook Islands ‘not consulted’ on NZ-China agreements

June 20, 2025

Former Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna

Development

Environmentalists question Henry Puna’s role in deep sea mining firm

Asia Pacific Media Network's Dr David Robie talks to PMN's Pacific Mornings

Development

David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s Pacific Mornings

Development

PNG’s forests authority chief granted another five years at helm

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Gary Juffa: Shedding PNG blood for corporate interest – didn’t we learn?

The USAID controversy featured on New Zealand's 1News tonight

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Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws independent journalism into chaos

Pacific Media Watch -

February 8, 2025

FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) members hold "No to Bougival" banners in a Nouméa protest

Development

FLNKS snubs Nouméa constitutional reform talks for New Caledonia

August 24, 2025

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

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

August 22, 2023

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Environmental movement condemns Indonesia’s ‘betrayal of the people’

October 10, 2020

A PNG Maserati luxury sedan

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PNG’s donated APEC vehicles given to state agencies, NGOs and churches

July 29, 2019

"Trump’s ceasefire is a political theatre of control"

Development

From the Knesset to Sharm el-Sheikh: How the US president offered...

October 16, 2025

Tahiti's President Moetai Brotherson

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‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence

June 8, 2023

Papuan People’s Solidarity members protest in Sorong last month against President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to resume a transmigration programme

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West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration

November 5, 2024

A group of Papuan women and children wave Melanesian state flags

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West Papua’s customary region leaders back full MSG membership

June 17, 2023

Pacific Report

NCDs in the Pacific a ‘man-made crisis’, says FAO

November 1, 2016

French police fire teargas during clashes with Union Calédonienne pro-independence protesters in central Nouméa

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Pro-independence protesters, French police clash in New Caledonia

February 22, 2024

DeshBesh Enterprises group operations manager Mohammad Chan Mia

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Long term plan needed for underlying PNG problems, says academic

January 25, 2024

Between 26 to 30 Gazan journalists have been targeted in this Israeli campaign of assassination. And Anas wanted the UN rapporteur to go public, he wanted others to go public, to stop what Israel was doing

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Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif,...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 13, 2025

A My Lai massacre display in the Vietnam War Remnants Museum

Development

The fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was...

April 21, 2025

Development Policy Centre research fellow Dr Terence Wood

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Political analyst hopes NZ, Australia will ‘step up’ over USAID cuts...

March 3, 2025

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

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Top level Chinese delegation headed to Kiribati – questions over Kanton

May 25, 2022

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Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

Pacific Media Watch -

February 19, 2019

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The Opposition: Paga Hill’s villagers fight for justice in PNG

Pacific Media Watch -

February 10, 2018

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Indonesia must step up over Papuan development, says ELSAM

May 19, 2017

French Overseas Territories Minister Manuel Valls

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French minister wraps up key talks in New Caledonia, returning late...

March 3, 2025

The aftermath of Indonesian forces burning temporary shelters in the Star Mountains, West Papua

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Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan...

March 2, 2025

Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt

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RSF slams ‘horrific conditions’ for journalists in Gaza in wake of...

March 5, 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

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The moment "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia was gunned down

Crime

Samoan police investigate after pair admit killing ‘Coconut Cartel’ ringleader in...

A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home

Asia Report

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

Analysis

Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred...

New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu

Crime

Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade...

EDITOR'S PICKS

NZ Budget 2026 . . . Foreign Minister Winston Peters says a "highly active and effective foreign policy" is called for

Development

NZ Budget 2026 boosts Pacific aid, defence spending amid security concerns

Sydney CAM Rally . . . CAM uses tactics including social media, lobbying politicians and convening conferences to relentlessly pursue its goal of entrenching the IHRA definition of antisemitism into policy at all levels

Analysis

Australia’s Combat Antisemitism Movement keeps slaying social cohesion

Australian protesters condemn the torture of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails at a demonstration in Adelaide, South Australia, in December 2025

Analysis

US-built ‘torture ship’ and US funding played role in kidnapping, torture...

The AI-generated fake footage on Instagram shared by an Indonesian nationalist account @bersamaastacita showing Koteka Wenda speaking out

Asia Report

‘Digital colonisation’ – West Papuan activist targeted in fake AI-generated reel

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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

The moment "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia was gunned down

Crime

Samoan police investigate after pair admit killing ‘Coconut Cartel’ ringleader in...

Australian protesters condemn the torture of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails at a demonstration in Adelaide, South Australia, in December 2025

Analysis

US-built ‘torture ship’ and US funding played role in kidnapping, torture...

The AI-generated fake footage on Instagram shared by an Indonesian nationalist account @bersamaastacita showing Koteka Wenda speaking out

Asia Report

‘Digital colonisation’ – West Papuan activist targeted in fake AI-generated reel

Gaza freedom flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby (right) being welcomed home at Auckland International Airport on Sunday

Asia Report

Kidnapped Kiwi Gaza flotilla detainee condemns brutal Israeli torture