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Vanuatu's earthquake death toll at least 14

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Vanuatu quake: State of emergency declared, Fiji’s Rabuka offers help

December 18, 2024

Satellite images of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano before and after the 15-01-2022 eruption.

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Anxious Tongans in NZ await volcano news from home: ‘It’s painful, you just feel hopeless’

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

Flooded properties in Hawke's Bay.

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Insurer says 20,000 NZ homes at risk of severe flooding

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Life after the PNG quakes and more really tough decisions ahead

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

The morgue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza

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Massacre at 2 am – Israel resumes indiscriminate attacks against Gaza,...

March 19, 2025

Saki disaster

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

January 2, 2021

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Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters

December 9, 2016

Red Tsounga with the volunteer team from the Whānau Hub

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Gallery: After Auckland’s flash floods, it’s community clean-up time

February 5, 2023

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

Moruroa files

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Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear...

March 18, 2021

Monsignor Vicar Lutoviko Finau

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Churches grateful for ‘miracle’ on anniversary of Tonga eruption

January 16, 2023

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Desperate call for food, water from 5000 on Manam volcano island

August 28, 2018

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Mounting death toll tops 102 after strong quake hits Aceh buildings

December 8, 2016

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Ovalau survivors tell their horror stories as $15m aid flows to...

February 26, 2016

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Chaos in Palu after quake and tsunami as survivors deal with...

October 2, 2018

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Baliau village apologises for assault on PNG’s volcano island journalist

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August 30, 2018

HMNZS Aotearoa (docked) and HMNZS Wellington in Nuku’alofa

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Australia and New Zealand compete with China for Tongan influence

January 24, 2022

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

Independent writer Eugene Doyle

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Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide

June 2, 2025

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Fiji’s AG welcomes relaxed provident fund rules for cyclone aid

March 2, 2016

A national state of emergency declared in Aotearoa New Zealand

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NZ declares national emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle unleashes fury across...

February 14, 2023

Water supplies for Tonga

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International aid starts to flow into volcano tsunami-hit Tonga

January 23, 2022

An aerial shot of the new 2024 RNZ Pacific transmitter

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RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 25, 2025

Pro-Palestinian protesters at a New Zealand solidarity rally in Auckland

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Israel’s endgame for tormented Gaza is political and physical erasure

April 25, 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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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

Ousted Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele ousted after just over two years...

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Analysis

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

Decolonisation

New Caledonia provincial elections set for June but voter roll changes...

NZ Media and Communications Minister Minister Dr Paul Goldsmith

Analysis

Does abolishing the BSA mean the end of NZ’s enforceable media...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom

Analysis

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Democracy

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

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

Video footage obtained by human rights researchers shows a crowd of angry Papuans throwing stones towards police infrastructure in Kobakma

Asia Report

West Papuan graduation parade turns violent after police object to Morning...

Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom

Analysis

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...