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The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena

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Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?

January 27, 2026

Ponsonby Post Office in Three Lamps

Development

Ponsonby community up in arms over impending post office closure

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (second from left) and other Melanesian leaders at the MSG summit

Development

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders discuss Middle East conflict before ceasefire

Former PNG PM Peter O'Neill

Development

Former PNG PM O’Neill to stand trial over Israeli generators purchase

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

Development

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

Efeso Collins

Development

Pacific residents express ‘hopelessness’ as Ōtara house sales hit $1m

December 21, 2020

Piango Pacific activists in Fiji prepare their Morning Star flags

Development

Why West Papuans are raising a banned independence flag across Australia,...

December 1, 2023

Development

Elizabeth Cox: Bring back a revitalised Radio Australia to all rural...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2018

Timor-Leste oil protest

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Timor-Leste’s lost oil millions blamed on Australia’s ‘rip-off’

June 12, 2019

Tamariki raising the West Papuan independence flag Morning Star

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West Papua: Once was Papuan Independence Day, now facing ‘ecocide’, transmigration

December 1, 2024

Senior ministers from Australia and Vanuatu initialled the Nakamal Agreement at the top of Mount Yasur. (ABC News: Lillyrose Welwel) Photo: ABC News / Lillyrose Welwel

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New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst

August 18, 2025

Development

Scott Waide: How China is several moves ahead in Port Moresby

November 17, 2018

Development

Fifth Estate: ‘Bomber’ talks climate change and the impact on Pacific

March 30, 2016

Trump’s shielding of Netanyahu and his advisers from criminal proceedings through sanctions and threats to members of the court is akin to both aiding and abetting crimes under the Rome Statute

Development

Why the International Criminal Court is under attack – it must...

August 25, 2025

Although New Caledonia is one of New Zealand’s closest neighbours, the French colony feels very isolated from the rest of the Pacific

Development

While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 26, 2025

Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron

Development

Macron keen on Varirata forest lookout for bilateral talks with PNG

July 28, 2023

“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film

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West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco

Pacific Media Watch -

February 24, 2026

Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus at Rarotonga port last month, holding banners proclaiming "Don’t Mine The Moana"

Development

Growing local opposition to seabed mining decision has forced Cook Islands...

November 13, 2025

Development

Digicel Asia-Pacific bridges the Digital Divide in PNG

June 2, 2016

A section of the Girmit Day holiday crowd in Suva yesterday

Development

Girmit Day – Shaping Fiji through hard work, blood, sweat and...

May 16, 2023

The Pacific Islands Forum's "Troika-Plus" leaders (right) hold a talanoa session with New Caledonia President Louis Mapou

Development

Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia

October 31, 2024

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Development

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

Pacific Media Watch -

May 27, 2025

Dark Times Academy's Mandy Henk speaking at the Asia Pacific Media Network event

Development

How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 26, 2025

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

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) with Fiji's acting PM Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

Development

US announces deeper engagement strategy to match China in the Pacific

February 13, 2022

Development

Air Niugini operates special ‘hub’ flight services to FSM

September 6, 2016

Development

Philippines tries to reverse trend in new HIV detections

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

March 16, 2017

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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 Fiji police and military have launched controversial joint security operations to take down criminal networks in the country

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Fijian widow alleges husband was beaten in police raid, told to...

Republic of Fiji Military Forces commander Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai (left)

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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The Fiji police and military have launched controversial joint security operations to take down criminal networks in the country

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Fijian widow alleges husband was beaten in police raid, told to...

Pascal Sawa, head of the UC-FLNKS list in the Northern province, welcomes the results in the municipality of Houaïlou

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Official results confirmed for New Caledonia’s provincial elections

Press TV journalist Hadi Hoteit reporting in southern Lebanon

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The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media...

Republic of Fiji Military Forces commander Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai (left)

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Fiji military defends national role in society after 9% budget cut