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Indonesia on fire, cross-boundary public health hazards

May 6, 2016

Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao

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Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

An Eskdale road sign . . . one of the most devastated areas by Cyclone Gabrielle

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Cyclone Gabrielle: More heavy rain for NZ’s disaster-hit northern regions

Tongan geologists view the Hunga eruption

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Tongan volcanic eruption reveals the vulnerabilities in global telecommunications

NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

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

The landslide devastation at Yambili village

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

May 25, 2024

Filipino investigative journalist Manny "Bok" Mogato

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‘In my early days, I was reckless,’ says Pultizer winner Manny...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 13, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (second from right) visits the Engan landslide area

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12 reportedly dead after tribal clashes near PNG landslide in Enga

June 1, 2024

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Stop politicising relief help, warns Seruiratu – 62,000 homeless

February 27, 2016

The social value of forestry was considered inefficient and wasteful

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Cyclone Gabrielle triggers more destructive forestry ‘slash’ – NZ must change...

February 18, 2023

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

February 25, 2016

Disaster news coverage

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Gavin Ellis: Thank God for news media in a storm

Pacific Media Watch -

February 16, 2023

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

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

May 29, 2025

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Massive Cyclone Pam disaster aid – good intentions but much unusable

February 19, 2018

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Gallery: Stay away from flooded areas, Samoan police warn after Cyclone...

February 10, 2018

Vanuatu, which drove the UN move, is celebrating a global climate victory

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Vanuatu hails ‘historic resolution’ in climate battle on the world stage

March 31, 2023

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Typhoon Usman and nightmarish Christmas holiday times in Bicol

January 25, 2019

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Life after the PNG quakes and more really tough decisions ahead

Pacific Media Centre -

March 27, 2018

At least two GP clinics and a pharmacy are among the casualties of the flooding in Lismore, northeast NSW

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After Australia’s floods, the distressing but necessary case for managed retreat

March 14, 2022

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

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

January 16, 2022

Ponsonby mosque child

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Christchurch terrorism attacks: NZ’s darkest hour – Friday, March 15, 2019

March 19, 2019

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Vanuatu switches to recovery mode after Donna — Ella now stronger

Pacific Media Watch -

May 10, 2017

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

February 26, 2016

South Tarawa in Kiribati

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Amnesty International wants NZ visa for climate-hit Pacific islanders

October 10, 2025

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 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

twin catastrophic threats of climate change and a pandemic

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Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than covid....

August 7, 2021

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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...

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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

Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka

Commentary

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...

PIF Secretary General Baron Divavesi Waqa welcomed Israel’s Ambassador to Fiji and Pacific Island Countries, Maya Yaron, and Head of MASHAV, Ambassador Eynat Shlein,

Analysis

Israel votes against decolonisation for Pacific at UN – then says...

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

Democracy

Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

The French and Kanak flags flying high

Business

New Caledonia pro-independence leaders boycott EU critical minerals deal

EDITOR'S PICKS

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,

Decolonisation

Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...

The BBC still runs its story on six-year-old Hind Rajab, killed by Israeli forces, under the headline "Hind Rajab, 6, found dead

Analysis

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death...

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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

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,

Decolonisation

Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...

The BBC still runs its story on six-year-old Hind Rajab, killed by Israeli forces, under the headline "Hind Rajab, 6, found dead

Analysis

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death...