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Motorists try to flee a tsunami wave on the foreshore in the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa

Disasters

Tonga volcano eruption and tsunami – 120 evacuated in NZ’s Far North

January 16, 2022

Disasters

42 dead and relief focuses on hardest-hit, says Fiji UN envoy

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

Disasters

Auckland deputy mayor talks up media role in disasters in wake of mayor Brown ‘drongos’ text

Rescue operations underway on a commercial building flattened by the earthquake in Vanuatu 17 Dec 2024

Disasters

Buildings ‘pancaked’ in Vanuatu as 7.3 magnitude quake strikes off capital Port Vila

Disasters

Cyclone Winston damage in Fiji runs to $476m, says disaster office

Disasters

Indonesia on fire, cross-boundary public health hazards

May 6, 2016

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

Disasters

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

August 24, 2025

The landslide devastation at Yambili village

Disasters

Local officials fear fate of 300 missing people in remote PNG...

May 25, 2024

Disasters

PNG’s Manam volcano erupts again, forcing islanders to evacuate

August 25, 2018

Progressive journalist and presenter Mehdi Hasan

Disasters

Debunked – Israel’s top 10 lies on Gaza, as exposed by...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2025

Bay View cyclone survivor Maureen Dorr holds her dog Pancho

Disasters

Cyclone Gabrielle zone: ‘I’d call it an apocalypse’ says survivor –...

February 18, 2023

Victims of the Papua New Guinea earthquake on Sunday from Wauko village being treated in Angau Hospital after being airlifted to Lae

Disasters

Quake buries three alive in Wau as PNG reports death toll...

September 13, 2022

Disasters

Gallery: Vanuatu ‘welcomes all’ to rebuilt traditional chiefs’ nakamal meeting house

March 7, 2025

Johnson and Jaqueline Yandam

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PNG landslide: Couple pulled alive from rubble as 690 feared dead

May 27, 2024

Mt Roskill flood-damaged belongings

Disasters

Auckland’s Great Flood: ‘If you think it was bad before, it’s...

February 10, 2023

Flooding at Auckland International Airport

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Three dead, at least one missing, and airport closes in Auckland...

January 28, 2023

Disasters

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

October 29, 2017

The landslide at Yambali village

Disasters

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

May 27, 2024

Israel has repeatedly violated the ceasefire deal

Disasters

Hamas report to mediators accuses Israel of pervasive Gaza ceasefire violations

February 12, 2025

The tsunami waves, caused by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia, have now rolled on southeastward toward South America

Disasters

Pacific avoids major damage after powerful quake off Russia

July 31, 2025

Recovery and humanitarian workers ramp up efforts on Maui island

Disasters

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

August 17, 2023

Independent writer Eugene Doyle

Disasters

Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide

June 2, 2025

Flooding on the corner of Seabrooke and Margan avenues in New Lynn

Disasters

Nick Rockel: When the public’s important at election time, but not...

January 28, 2023

Disasters

31 deaths so far in PNG quake, but ‘hit-and-miss’ on rural...

March 1, 2018

Disasters

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

February 21, 2016

A flooded Wairoa bridge

Disasters

NZ Defence Force starts supplying stricken Wairoa with food, water

February 15, 2023

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

Disasters

One month after Auckland floods Pasifika people still in temp housing

March 2, 2023

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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

Disasters

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

Northern provincial President Paul Néaoutine, first elected in 1999, has been reelected

Decolonisation

Horse-trading in New Caledonia over provincial presidency elections

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

China

‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China...

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

Civil Society

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

New US Ambassador Jared Novelly to NZ

Asia Report

New US ambassador to New Zealand says Cook Islands a top...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

Civil Society

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

Analysis

Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...

Pacific Elders Voice group's chair Anote Tong

China

Pacific at a crossroads amid growing geopolitical tension, says former leaders’...

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

China

‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China...

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

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

Civil Society

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

Tehran doesn't answer vulgarity with vulgarity

Analysis

‘They’re scum.’ F bombs and real bombs. Trump completely outclassed by...

Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jnr

Asia Report

Palau’s President warns of rising nuclear anxiety in the Pacific, after...

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

Analysis

Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...