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Daku has a climate message for the world: ‘Tell them to believe it’

April 27, 2016

Fiji's Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

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Fiji’s AG blames Tongan tsunami warning delay on ‘agency liaison’

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Typhoon Mangkhut devastates north of Philippines with at least 64 dead

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Pacific one year after Pam – we need to talk about cyclones

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Free lunch for some Fiji schools, cyclone classroom damage $42m

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Vanuatu too slow to act over cyclone disaster planning, claims Kalsakau

February 26, 2016

Island, Fiji, in the wake of Cyclone Winston

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Scientists need to brush up on communications, says Fiji weather man

April 2, 2016

A group of schoolchildren boarding a military aircraft

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Quake-shocked New Caledonian children repatriated from Vanuatu

December 22, 2024

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Indonesia on fire, cross-boundary public health hazards

May 6, 2016

A P-3K2 Orion aircraft flies over Nomuka island

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Gallery: What the NZ air crew saw at Tonga’s Nomuka –...

January 18, 2022

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Stretched by coronavirus pandemic, Vanuatu faces cyclone, Mt Yasur ash

April 7, 2020

Saki disaster

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At the heart of the Goilala landslide disaster – prayers for the...

January 2, 2021

Cleaning up Tonga's volcano ashfall

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Why no warning sirens before Tonga’s deadly tsunami hit? Minister unclear

January 27, 2022

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NZ Foreign Minister questions China’s influence in the Pacific

Pacific Media Watch -

March 4, 2018

Ni-Vanuatu RSE workers helping unload donations after Cyclone Gabrielle

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Vanuatu RSE workers ‘safe and cared for’, say officials

March 1, 2023

A little-known arrangement that puts proceedings of New Zealand's Parliament on the air has been cited as a threat to AM broadcasting's future

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Mediawatch: Signal to noise – is NZ’s AM radio really under...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 5, 2023

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Typhoon Mangkhut devastates north of Philippines with at least 64 dead

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

September 16, 2018

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Massive Cyclone Pam disaster aid – good intentions but much unusable

February 19, 2018

Marshall Islands firefighters try to contain the Nitijela (Parliament) fire

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‘All destroyed’: Fire engulfs Marshall Islands parliament complex

August 26, 2025

"Let Gaza Live" says a placard in a New Zealand protest against the Israeli genocide and environmental devastation in West Auckland

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Gaza’s water supply turns poisonous as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic legacy

November 9, 2025

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Challenges on the ground in PNG Highlands – what people really...

March 10, 2018

Tsunami flooding in the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa

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New tsunami warning in NZ, Samoa as volcano waves hit Tonga’s...

January 15, 2022

HMNZS Aotearoa bound for Tonga

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Global aid effort underway for Tonga’s recovery from the Hunga tsunami

January 23, 2022

Vanuatu, which drove the UN move, is celebrating a global climate victory

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Vanuatu hails ‘historic resolution’ in climate battle on the world stage

March 31, 2023

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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PM Ardern on covid-19 vaccine for children, booster doses and Tonga

January 17, 2022

HMNZS Wellington deploys dive teams in Tonga

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Tonga’s King Tupou VI offers hope to families who lost relatives...

January 21, 2022

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Death toll from Papuan floods, mudslides rises to 89

March 20, 2019

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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

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...

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

PNAG's Joey Tau in Honiara

Analysis

Has the Pacific’s Ocean of Peace concept been hijacked?

Disputed Hunter Island

Decolonisation

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

The only sensible stance is to stand against the carnage

Asia Report

Saige England: Call out the Zionist hypocrisy – genociders are settler...

In her evidence before the Bondi Royal Commission, the antisemitism envoy Jillian Segel claimed

Analysis

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Iranian missile attack on US base in Jordan

Analysis

Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted...

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago

Asia Report

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed...

The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World

Analysis

Saige England: A tale of power being taken from the people...

"FBI Director Kash Patel sounds super stoked about the chance to become a 21st century J Edgar Hoover"

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Caitlin Johnstone: They’re launching a new COINTELPRO for the 21st century

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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

Iranian missile attack on US base in Jordan

Analysis

Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted...

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago

Asia Report

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed...

The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World

Analysis

Saige England: A tale of power being taken from the people...

"FBI Director Kash Patel sounds super stoked about the chance to become a 21st century J Edgar Hoover"

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: They’re launching a new COINTELPRO for the 21st century