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Harsh response lessons abound in wake of PNG’s quake devastation

March 11, 2018

Workers load the HMAS Adelaide with supplies for Tonga

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‘Our resources on the ground aren’t enough’, says UN Tonga official

USP Laucala Campus 140621

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USP ranked 11th in world for ‘crisis management’ over covid response

True cost of covid pandemic

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Covid-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters in any of the past 20 years

The flag of Hawai'i waves beside a sign reading "Tourist(s) Keep Out" in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires

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Anger in Hawai’i over threat of land grabs after wildfire disaster

Tsunami waves in Tonga

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NZ Air Force plane leaves for Tonga to assess volcano eruption...

January 17, 2022

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Damage to Fiji’s water system repair costs will hit millions

March 4, 2016

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‘It’s up to God and the land’ on Vanuatu’s Ambae volcano...

July 23, 2018

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Infrawatch blames Philippine dam operators for Cagayan, Isabela floods

November 15, 2020

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown (left) fronting a media conference

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Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood

Pacific Media Watch -

January 31, 2023

NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

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‘Take care of each other’, says PM Hipkins after assessing Auckland...

January 28, 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

The landslide occurred on Sunday in Gazelle district in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province

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Deadly landslide claims 10 lives in PNG’s East New Britain, reports...

April 16, 2026

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Pacific media freedom groups blast assault on reporters on volcano island

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August 29, 2018

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

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Auckland deputy mayor talks up media role in disasters in wake...

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January 31, 2023

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

Cleaning up Tonga's volcano ashfall

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Rebuilding post-eruption Tonga: 4 key lessons from Fiji after Cyclone Winston

February 5, 2022

Coronavirus graphic

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Pacific coronavirus: Cyclone Harold leaves death, destruction

April 12, 2020

HMAS Adelaide ... en route for Tonga

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Covid-19 cases confirmed aboard HMAS Adelaide bound for Tonga

January 25, 2022

Sriwijaya Air wreckage

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Body parts found at Sriwijaya Air crash site in Indonesia –...

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January 10, 2021

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

The Waipaoa River, near Gisborne 140223

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Severity of damage ‘not seen in a generation’, says...

February 15, 2023

King Tupou VI

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

January 29, 2022

Vanuatu Daily Post journalist Doddy Morris

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Ni-Vanuatu journalist Doddy Morris balances grief and duty in the aftermath...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 26, 2025

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

Water supplies for Tonga

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International aid starts to flow into volcano tsunami-hit Tonga

January 23, 2022

New Zealand protesters at the weekly demonstration against the Israeli genocide in Gaza in Auckland

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Bloodshed at GHF-run Gaza aid sites ‘a great sin’, says former...

August 1, 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

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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...

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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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The International Court of Justice in The Hague

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Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on...

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Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton...

Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sailele Mallielegaoi

Fiji

World Rugby says no ultimatum given to Samoa over governance fiasco

Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan

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NZ tribunal finds Treaty reforms breach Te Tiriti principles, prejudice Māori,...

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

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Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

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The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

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Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...

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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

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Te Tinihanga o Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti

Decolonisation

NZ tribunal finds Treaty reforms breach Te Tiriti principles, prejudice Māori,...

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

Editor's Picks

Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

Climate

The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

Commentary

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...