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The ground-breaking ceremony for the Indonesian-funded ugrade of the VIP Lounge in Port Vila

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Vanuatu asked for Indonesian aid funds, Jakarta’s envoy reveals

August 28, 2023

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McCully launches new Pacific think-tank for ‘targeted research’

The traditional NZ Census will be replaced with a combination of government data and smaller annual surveys

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Confidential documents reveal Pacific Ministry raised concerns over NZ census overhaul

Vanuatu investigative journalist and editor Dan McGarry

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‘He will never be replaced’ – tributes flow for ‘fearless’ Vanuatu journalist Dan McGarry

Today's open letter on Gaza in The Post to NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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Palestinian foreign minister tells ICJ of ‘besieged, bombed and killed’ Gazans

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

December 22, 2016

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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NZ’s Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s West Bank settlement plan

August 25, 2025

Labor's Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese

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

May 23, 2022

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

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’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

March 10, 2026

Indonesia's food estates land grab

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West Papua food estates threaten indigenous people, warns TAPOL

April 29, 2022

"All Eyes on Papua" . . . a campaign against Indonesian exploitation of Papuan rainforests

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Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s...

July 24, 2024

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

Kiribati dropped a bombshell at the Pacific Islands Forum

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NZ should show real solidarity with the Pacific by embracing climate...

July 30, 2022

New Caledonia's territorial President Alcide Ponga signs the Elysée-Oudinot agreement

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New Caledonia’s new Elysée-Oudinot pact signed in Paris – despite boycott

January 20, 2026

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Dan McGarry: Strings attached, please – but the choice isn’t so...

June 26, 2018

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Indonesia must step up over Papuan development, says ELSAM

May 19, 2017

A Papuan student protesting in Perth

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Papua governor Enembe arrested on ‘lavish’ bribery charges

January 11, 2023

Marian Rivera as Mirama

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Evening star rising: Girlhood in the Aeta heartlands of the Philippines

January 16, 2026

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West Papuan refugees allocated Port Moresby land for settlement

July 29, 2016

Thirty two newborns in Fiji have been diagnosed with HIV

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

June 6, 2025

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India needs to counterbalance China in Asia Pacific, says president

May 5, 2016

The Pacific 2025 year ahead

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Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set...

January 4, 2025

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‘Heavy handed’ NZ clamps down on Tokelau spending

Mackenzie Smith -

March 15, 2017

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Pioneering NZ Pacific research initiative to make ‘reset’ change

Sri Krishnamurthi -

November 30, 2018

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

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

June 25, 2025

Rotuman culture and language

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Call for Rotuman people to speak language or it could be...

May 11, 2026

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

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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

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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

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 message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out."

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Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Analysis

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

Spanish MEP Irene Montero

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Spanish MEP accuses EU of failure to act over Israeli ‘kidnapping,...

Multinational police probe into Fiji officers

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Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The documentary Pesta Babi has stirred discussions about Papuan development and the impact of deforestation policies

Asia Report

Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’

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...

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

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

Australian Gaza flotilla activist Zack Schofield

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‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture

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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

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

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...

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...

Australian Gaza flotilla activist Zack Schofield

Asia Report

‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture

$"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades$

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Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...