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Connecting the dots – Pacific disasters, cyclones, climate featured in latest PJR

Pacific Journalism Review -

July 20, 2018

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Global research project examines ‘social impact’ of natural disasters

HMAS Adelaide ... en route for Tonga

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Covid-19 cases confirmed aboard HMAS Adelaide bound for Tonga

Palau's leader Surangel Whipps Jr (left) and US President-elect Donald Trump

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Palau’s president invites Trump to visit Pacific to see climate crisis impacts

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

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

Tolukuma mine

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Landslide claims 13 lives at Tolukuma mine in PNG’s Central province

December 29, 2020

The podcast takes the listener into a room in Seattle, Washington, in 1984, where Greenpeace International leader Steve Sawyer met for the first time with Jeton Anjain

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How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior...

December 5, 2024

Slips from Vanuatu's earthquake today

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Powerful 7.3 magnitude quake strikes Vanuatu – serious damage in Vila

December 17, 2024

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

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Palau suffers worsening drought – emergency declared

March 28, 2016

NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Lives ‘turned upside down . . . destroyed’, says...

February 20, 2023

King Tupou VI

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Tongan King calls for unity as he vows to rebuild amid...

January 29, 2022

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

March 16, 2018

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

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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Fiji baby survives 14 hour cyclone Winston ordeal in esky

February 29, 2016

A candidate’s campaign poster for Vanuatu’s snap general election next week on January 16

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Vanuatu election 2025: Earthquake aftershocks expose high cost of democracy

January 11, 2025

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Rabi landslide? Not a big problem, horseback and walking the answer

April 26, 2018

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Massive Cyclone Pam disaster aid – good intentions but much unusable

February 19, 2018

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PNG trial begins for Rabaul Shipping ferry disaster case

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2016

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

February 25, 2016

Pacific Islands Forum

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Covid, cyclone force Vanuatu to postpone Pacific Islands Forum

June 3, 2020

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

February 26, 2016

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

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Life after the PNG quakes and more really tough decisions ahead

Pacific Media Centre -

March 27, 2018

Between 26 to 30 Gazan journalists have been targeted in this Israeli campaign of assassination. And Anas wanted the UN rapporteur to go public, he wanted others to go public, to stop what Israel was doing

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Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif,...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 13, 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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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...

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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

"A reckless game of chicken” in the Middle East

Asia Report

‘Menace to the world’: With Iran talks stalled, Trump vows to...

Lawyer Juleen Fatiaki, counsel for Charlie Charters

Democracy

Fiji judge orders motion seeking return of journalists’ e-devices seized by...

Indonesian police fire water cannon and tear gas on West Papuan demonstrators at Perumnas III Waena, Heram District, Jayapura City, Papua

Asia Report

Large demos across West Papua meet with mixed responses by police

Former FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali

Democracy

Fiji court rules COI report into Malimali appointment was unlawful, null...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Defenders of the International Criminal Court, led by the pan-European group Eumans, rally in Rome

Asia Report

‘Deranged behaviour’ – Marco Rubio slammed for US sanctions on ICC...

The Strait of Hormuz - closed

Asia Report

Correcting the Trump delusions about the Strait of Hormuz

In late-June, PNG Prime Minister James Marape instructed all provinces

Climate

‘On another scale’ – PNG province unprepared for El Niño impacts,...

World Vision says humanitarian agencies are not seeing the lawlessness and disregard for international humanitarian law in the Pacific

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Pacific humanitarian workers face major logistical and access challenges, says World...

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

Cook Islands caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown and US Ambassador Jared Novelly exchange gifts

Cook Islands

‘Teeming with life’: Cook Islands officials enthuse over NOAA deep dive

Defenders of the International Criminal Court, led by the pan-European group Eumans, rally in Rome

Asia Report

‘Deranged behaviour’ – Marco Rubio slammed for US sanctions on ICC...

The Strait of Hormuz - closed

Asia Report

Correcting the Trump delusions about the Strait of Hormuz

World Vision says humanitarian agencies are not seeing the lawlessness and disregard for international humanitarian law in the Pacific

Disasters

Pacific humanitarian workers face major logistical and access challenges, says World...