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Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

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West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

April 29, 2026

All smiles FTimes

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Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering

A vehicle being swept away by the tsunami wave on 'Eua

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Tsunami wave hits Tonga’s ‘Eua royal palace gate as vehicles try to flee

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Solomon Islands students help out Fiji victims of TC Harold restore lives

Paramedic teams from ProMedical Vanuatu treat victims of the earthquake in Port Vila on Tuesday

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Vanuatu quake: Hospitals under pressure as death, damage toll grows

The global Nakba Day protest with marchers today in Queen Street in New Zealand's largest city Auckland

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‘Cracks are opening up’ in Western complicity over Gaza genocide, says...

May 17, 2025

"Stay Home" warning today on the New Zealand Herald's front page

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Auckland deputy mayor talks up media role in disasters in wake...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 31, 2023

Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao

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Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

September 12, 2026

New Zealand protesters carry symbolic "bodies" of Palestinian journalists slaughtered by the Israeli military

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Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?

August 24, 2025

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Fiji family mourns death of mechanic killed in NZ tornado

June 21, 2021

A woman in Jayapura stands next to a collapsed wall after the quake

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4 die, 700 forced to flee as earthquake hits Papuan capital...

February 11, 2023

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24 Pacific students gain special climate change resilience training

October 8, 2018

A water spout off the Bay of Plenty coast near Waihi where a tornado hit

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Tornado hits Waihi Beach amid more wild weather in...

February 25, 2023

An Uncle Sam puppet with blood on his hands held aloft by pro-Palestinian protesters in Auckland, New Zealand

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Israel backing Gaza ‘gangs’ to create unlivable chaos, says academic

August 2, 2025

The back yard of Samoan community advocate Paul Mark's home in Mangere

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One month after Auckland floods Pasifika people still in temp housing

March 2, 2023

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PNG deploys ships and soldiers to Manam for emergency evacuation

August 26, 2018

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Village on the broken mountain – the plight of PNG’s quake-hit...

August 21, 2018

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Fiji’s devastated Tukuraki village moves to new site after landslide

October 29, 2017

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NZ sending more Defence Force engineers to assist Fiji

February 28, 2016

The landslide at Yambali village

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PNG landslide buried ‘more than 2000 people alive’: Rescue teams navigate...

May 27, 2024

Recovery and humanitarian workers ramp up efforts on Maui island

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Anger over failure of sirens to go off as wildfire swept...

August 17, 2023

Coronavirus graphic

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Pacific coronavirus: Cyclone Harold leaves death, destruction

April 12, 2020

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Damage to Fiji’s water system repair costs will hit millions

March 4, 2016

Palau's leader Surangel Whipps Jr (left) and US President-elect Donald Trump

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Palau’s president invites Trump to visit Pacific to see climate crisis...

December 6, 2024

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‘It’s up to God and the land’ on Vanuatu’s Ambae volcano...

July 23, 2018

NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins (pictured) and Finance Minister Grant Robertson announce a $50 million support package

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Hipkins announces recovery taskforce, $50m support

February 20, 2023

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Foreign journalists ban over ferry disaster blamed on climate doco

Pacific Media Watch -

February 10, 2018

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

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

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

Asia Report

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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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

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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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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

TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

Asia Report

Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

For as long as states have made war, they have assassinated, disappeared, tortured and executed

Analysis

Gaza genocide: We made machines that think – then corrupted them...

"Put the greens last"

Analysis

Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

Labour's Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni

Civil Society

Labour promises visa-free travel for Pacific as overstayer rates rise

EDITOR'S PICKS

The Invercargill City Council

Decolonisation

Invercargill Council becomes seventh NZ local body to ban illegal Israeli...

Fiji's Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara

Australia

Fijian chief calls for scrutiny of Fiji-Australia security treaties

Indonesia's President Prabowo speaking dressed in a keffiyeh

Asia Report

Prabowo’s tears and cries of ‘Free Palestine’ are not enough

"Never again, never forget" says the slogan for Martial Law Day

Asia Report

Melissa Cruz: The power of collective memory on martial law –...

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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

Fiji's Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara

Australia

Fijian chief calls for scrutiny of Fiji-Australia security treaties

"Never again, never forget" says the slogan for Martial Law Day

Asia Report

Melissa Cruz: The power of collective memory on martial law –...

For as long as states have made war, they have assassinated, disappeared, tortured and executed

Analysis

Gaza genocide: We made machines that think – then corrupted them...

Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham and co-director Rachel Szor receiving the Venice Special Jury Prize for their critical Gaza war film

Analysis

The controversial documentary NAZA: 10 reasons to defend this whistleblower war...