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Vanuatu Daily Post journalist Doddy Morris

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Ni-Vanuatu journalist Doddy Morris balances grief and duty in the aftermath of earthquake

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January 26, 2025

HMAS Adelaide alongside Nuku'alofa wharf

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Tonga to enter lockdown after port workers test positive for covid-19

Water supplies for Tonga

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International aid starts to flow into volcano tsunami-hit Tonga

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Cyclone Donna leaves northern Vanuatu, heads for New Caledonia

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

A flooded Wairoa bridge

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NZ Defence Force starts supplying stricken Wairoa with food, water

February 15, 2023

Slips from Vanuatu's earthquake today

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Powerful 7.3 magnitude quake strikes Vanuatu – serious damage in Vila

December 17, 2024

Supporters collect funds for the victims of Kanjuruhan football stadium tragedy

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Indonesian police asked to stop ‘intimidating witnesses’ over football stadium tragedy

October 10, 2022

Vanuatu Daily Post journalist Doddy Morris

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Ni-Vanuatu journalist Doddy Morris balances grief and duty in the aftermath...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 26, 2025

French Polynesia has just played host to a 15-nation 'Marara' military exercise

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French Polynesia hosts ‘Marara’ military exercise for Asia-Pacific

June 14, 2024

Flames and a column of smoke in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa during 2024 riots

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New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at...

May 13, 2025

Matilda Koma

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PNG authorities slammed over ‘lack of control’ on alluvial mining

January 2, 2021

South Tarawa in Kiribati

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Amnesty International wants NZ visa for climate-hit Pacific islanders

October 10, 2025

Submarine family members

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Indonesian families remember victims of Bali submarine disaster – 53 die

April 27, 2021

Children in Vanuatu after cyclones Judy and Kevin

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Cyclones: Vanuatu children ‘need to see their friends’, educator warns

March 8, 2023

"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

Pacific cyclones

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Fiji’s weather bureau predicts up to seven cyclones this season

October 24, 2022

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Highlands security crisis hampers PNG quake response

May 7, 2018

Damage from the weekend earthquake at Birimon primary school in Deyamos LLG district in PNG's Morobe province

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4 killed, fears death toll may rise in massive PNG weekend...

September 12, 2022

tsunami wave crashes into a Tongan house

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Former Fiji journalist in Tonga tells of family’s flight from crashing...

January 16, 2022

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Tonga’s Parliament seeks temporary home after Gita smashed old House

February 15, 2018

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Counting the cost of PNG’s devastating earthquake – many uncertainties

March 10, 2018

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Tourists flee Lombok as Indonesian quake death toll hits 98

August 7, 2018

Survivor Tevita 'Amaka

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Tonga eruption: ‘The tsunami came, taking down electric poles, trees’

January 15, 2023

The Tahiti search operations involved about 200 emergency staff

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Tahiti landslide: no survivors – all 8 bodies retrieved

November 28, 2025

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Tropical cyclone Winston leaves trail of destruction, 1 dead as Fiji...

February 21, 2016

The lone building left standing from the US nuclear bomb attack on 3 August 1945 that later became the Hiroshima Peace Memorial

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Hiroshima 80 years on – why AUKUS is imperial madness and...

August 3, 2025

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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

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

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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

Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah

Asia Report

‘Heinous’ Israeli attack kills Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in genocidal...

The RFMF has assured the Fiji public that "there is no threat to public safety"

Crime

Fiji military puts public ‘on notice’ citing national security threats

Flooding near Whitianga cuts off a state highway.

Climate

Cyclone Vaianu: Damaging winds, heavy rain hit NZ’s North Island

What, then, have the two sides actually agreed to

Analysis

What on earth just happened? Trump, Iran, and the unlikely ceasefire

EDITOR'S PICKS

A "dove of peace" in Iran

Analysis

Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their...

Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28

Analysis

Iran threatens retaliation over Gulf ‘piracy’ in Trump’s naval blockade

A "New Zealand government must sanction Israel" banner flutters on one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

Asia Report

Global Sumud Flotilla heads from Barcelona to break Gaza blockade

Flooding near Whitianga cuts off a state highway.

Climate

Cyclone Vaianu: Damaging winds, heavy rain hit NZ’s North Island

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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

The RFMF has assured the Fiji public that "there is no threat to public safety"

Crime

Fiji military puts public ‘on notice’ citing national security threats

PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal (from left), councillor Julie Fairey and Kathy Ross

Asia Report

Auckland Council committee votes to review illegal Israeli settlement policies

A "dove of peace" in Iran

Analysis

Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their...

US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins

Analysis

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