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Trump 2.0 chaos and destruction — what it means Down Under

January 29, 2025

TC Harold

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Restricted movement on Viti Levu as TC Harold hammers Fiji

Climate crisis and the Israeli war on Gaza

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Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide

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Protests mount over massacre of Filipino farmers in climate demo

The Mougavalu family

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Flood-hit Māngere family thanks community support in disaster

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Kilauea volcano ash rains down on Hawai’i with more blasts predicted

May 18, 2018

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PNG’s earthquake death toll in Highlands now tops 75

March 6, 2018

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

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Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

May 29, 2025

A woman in Jayapura stands next to a collapsed wall after the quake

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4 die, 700 forced to flee as earthquake hits Papuan capital...

February 11, 2023

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

Nuku'alofa port before and after the volcano eruption and tsunami

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Safety at Tonga port being checked for arrival of more humanitarian...

January 21, 2022

Digicel Tonga’s technical team working on satellite link equipment

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Covering Tonga’s volcano eruption – without communications

Pacific Media Watch -

February 3, 2022

Saki landslide

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Bad weather hampers PNG landslide relief – two bodies found,...

December 31, 2020

Tsunami flooding in the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa

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New tsunami warning in NZ, Samoa as volcano waves hit Tonga’s...

January 15, 2022

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Solomon Islands students help out Fiji victims of TC Harold restore...

May 9, 2020

Moruroa files

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

March 18, 2021

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Prepared? Yes, but devastation of Winston was overwhelming

February 26, 2016

The huge landslide engulfed the Engan village of Yambali in the Papua New Guinea highlands early today

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Hundreds feared dead after huge landslide in Papua New Guinea

May 24, 2024

Monsignor Vicar Lutoviko Finau

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Churches grateful for ‘miracle’ on anniversary of Tonga eruption

January 16, 2023

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

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One month after Auckland floods Pasifika people still in temp housing

March 2, 2023

"Changing" by the artist Alisa Singer IPCC

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IPCC report: ‘Last gasp’ warning on climate response for NZ, the...

August 10, 2021

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

April 26, 2018

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Protests mount over massacre of Filipino farmers in climate demo

April 8, 2016

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

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Vanuatu quake: Death toll rises – 14 dead, hundreds hurt in...

December 18, 2024

A ni-Vanuatu family at the Blacksands community in Port Vila on Efate Island in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Kevin

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Back-to-back cyclones in Vanuatu – stories of survival in ‘tough go’

March 6, 2023

True cost of covid pandemic

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Covid-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters...

April 20, 2021

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‘Stick together,’ PM tells nation as Cyclone Winston strikes Fiji

February 20, 2016

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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

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Scenes from the Bondi Royal Commission

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NSW antisemitism hearings ‘drowned’ in the Bondi Royal Commission

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

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About 200 protesters in the Vallée-du-Tir yesterday marked the second anniversary of the pro-independence protests that erupted into riots in Nouméa

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Two years after New Caledonia’s violent uprising, tensions remain high

Papua's Tom Beanal

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Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

EDITOR'S PICKS

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Asia Report

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Analysis

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds

Papua's Tom Beanal

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Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

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Australia

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

Jacinda Ardern

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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

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Asia Report

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Analysis

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds

Papua's Tom Beanal

Analysis

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’