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NBC Five Mile fire

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Two children die as fire guts PNG’s national broadcaster units

August 28, 2021

Flooding in Tahiti's Teahupo’o village

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Tahiti disaster expected to be called after Teahupo’o village flooded

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PNG deploys ships and soldiers to Manam for emergency evacuation

Vanuatu local authorities have been working around the clock since Tuesday to try to locate and rescue people trapped in the Port Vila rubble left by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake this week

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Vanuatu quake: Rescue teams continue Port Vila hunt for survivors

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Hundreds more NZ unaccounted for now located

A house on the banks of Nelson's flooded Maitai River

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Hundreds evacuated in NZ’s South Island floods – state of emergency

August 18, 2022

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NZ sending more Defence Force engineers to assist Fiji

February 28, 2016

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How mining and militarisation led to an HIV epidemic in Indonesia’s...

November 26, 2016

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Cyclone ‘flattened’ 10 villages in Fiji’s Ra – now 22,181 evacuees

February 25, 2016

Screenshot from Port Vila video showing the moment the 7.3 earthquake struck

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December 18, 2024

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

October 24, 2022

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Tonga declares state of emergency to face looming wrath of Cyclone...

February 12, 2018

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100 homes damaged, people from Korovou village cry for help

February 25, 2016

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Gavin Ellis: Thank God for news media in a storm

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February 16, 2023

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‘Hurricane’ Winston – we’re lucky catastrophe didn’t strike Suva

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March 7, 2016

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

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Vanuatu pressing ahead with Ambae volcano island evacuation plan

April 20, 2018

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

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Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’...

March 22, 2025

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PNG quake-hit communities plead for relief aid to ‘bypass’ government

March 16, 2018

After three months of forced starvation, desperate Palestinians were herded into caged food distribution sites set up by the US and Israeli governments

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Israel bombs Gaza journalist’s home, kills 8 – shoots 3 in...

May 28, 2025

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Urgent call for help on Kadavu island after Keni’s Fiji devastation

April 12, 2018

HMAS Adelaide ... en route for Tonga

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Covid-19 cases confirmed aboard HMAS Adelaide bound for Tonga

January 25, 2022

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Village relocation provides new hope for Fiji’s devastated Tukuraki

April 27, 2017

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PNG’s earthquake death toll in Highlands now tops 75

March 6, 2018

Damage to South Pentecost villages in the aftermath of last year's Cyclone Lola

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Vanuatu communities growing climate resilience in wake of Cyclone Lola

April 28, 2025

More than 20 people have been reported dead

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‘Only one meal per day’ – 20 die in PNG Highlands...

March 19, 2024

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

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

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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

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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

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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

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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"

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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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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

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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

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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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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Rabuka rules out military involvement with Israel in Mideast conflicts

New Zealand's nuclear-free zone since 1987

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Non-negotiable: Christopher Luxon says NZ’s nuclear-free stance not changing

Fiji police talk to a Palestine protest organiser, Fiji Women's Crisis Centre coordinator Shamima Ali

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Case dismissed for pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin

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Rabuka rules out military involvement with Israel in Mideast conflicts

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Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

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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

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Case dismissed for pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) with Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Rabuka rules out military involvement with Israel in Mideast conflicts