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French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with a traditional Kanak dancer

Development

Macron urges Kanaky New Caledonia ‘compatriots’ to chart united path

July 26, 2023

Vlad Sokhin documents violence against PNG women

Development

PNG daily Post-Courier joins fight against gender-based violence

Pacific journalism author and educator Dr David Robie

Development

Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific

Nickel Prony Resources mining site in New Caledonia

Development

SA company Sibaneye-Stillwater eyes New Caledonia nickel mining plant

Development

New Chinese-built Koura Way road construction on target in PNG

US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins

Development

Why Trump’s naval blockade to ‘strangle’ Iran is a joke

April 14, 2026

Development

Pacific Climate Change Centre step closer – building starts next June

May 25, 2016

Big stick diplomacy – the willingness to use the military – was increasingly unleashed to assert US hegemony and business interests

Development

Eugene Doyle: Look where appeasing a bully has led the West...

January 20, 2026

The West Papua delegation flying the Morning Star flag at the opening of the MACFEST 2023

Development

West Papua high on agenda as MSG leaders set to convene...

August 19, 2023

Indonesian associate membership of MSG

Development

Wenda welcomes MSG call for UN visit and fights on for...

August 29, 2023

It would be clearly unwise for New Zealand to threaten or cut aid to Kiribati

Development

NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau’s inability to engage with NZ difficult to defend

Pacific Media Watch -

February 1, 2025

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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Luxon’s Niue visit demonstrates NZ ‘commitment to development’

June 4, 2024

Missionary pilot Anton Lutz

Development

Break this cycle of sorcery-related violence in Papua New Guinea

August 3, 2022

Moemoeana Miss Pacific_Islands at FestPAC 2024

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FestPAC 2024: ‘One body, one people, one ocean, one Pacific’

June 11, 2024

Development

‘Cheated’ PNG landowners threaten to close five fish processing plants

May 18, 2018

Development

New Caledonia celebrates Bastille Day and thinks about independence

July 27, 2018

ISA's Secretary-General Leticia Carvalho

Development

Pacific nations shaping future of seabed mining rules, says ISA chief

May 27, 2026

Dr Samantha Power giving a media conference after her speech at USP in Fiji

Development

USAID launches ‘reinvigorated’ Pacific mission to help sustainability goals

August 20, 2023

Tunnels have been present in the besieged Gaza Strip for decades

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Israel destroys only a quarter of Gaza tunnels in 18 months...

April 13, 2025

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

Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

Pacific Media Watch -

February 19, 2019

French Ambassador to the Pacific Véronique Roger-Lacan

Development

‘We cannot have peace without independence,’ says Kanak govt official

June 20, 2024

Fiji aid

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$154m earmarked for development assistance in Fiji

June 12, 2019

The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji

Development

Fiji rights coalition slams ‘betrayal’ of West Papua for Indonesian benefits

May 17, 2025

Amnesty International Aotearoa's people power manager Margaret Taylor

Development

Amnesty International doubles down on Israeli Gaza ‘genocide, atrocities’ report at...

December 7, 2024

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

Pacific Media Watch -

June 22, 2016

Publisher, broadcaster and tourism enthusiast Marc Neil-Jones

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Vanuatu mourns loss of iconic Pacific media pioneer Marc Neil-Jones

Pacific Media Watch -

March 11, 2025

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Development

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Development

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

Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025

Australia

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

Culture

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

Analysis

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

Deir el Balah in 2024

Development

What ceasefire? People still being killed and Gaza still under siege

EDITOR'S PICKS

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

Analysis

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

Disputed Hunter Island

Development

Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

Development

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

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

Fiji's Labour Party leader and a former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry

Crime

‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged...

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

Analysis

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

Disputed Hunter Island

Development

Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court