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An aerial shot of the new 2024 RNZ Pacific transmitter

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

Pacific Media Watch -

January 25, 2025

PNG covid testing station

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Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action

UAS footage of RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the Southern Coast of Upulo as part of Operation Resolution

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What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency

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Mediawatch on Gabrielle: ‘I’m proud to be working on this newspaper’

Theonila Roka Matbob, lead complainant

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Panguna human rights report fuels Bougainville demands for Rio Tinto-funded mine clean-up

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

Disasters

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

Pacific Media Watch -

January 31, 2023

Solidarity from another decolonisation struggle - West Papua

Disasters

Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing...

June 1, 2025

Aerial pictures of the tsunami damage on Fonoifua

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Overwhelming sense of relief that ‘apocalyptic’ Tongan tsunami spared most lives

January 23, 2022

Panguna mine . . . the flooding

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Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities

June 7, 2023

Disasters

Devastating Cyclone Keni moves out of Fijian waters, clean up begins

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2018

Atatā island, Tonga 18012022

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Tonga eruption: Images appear to show most of Atatā island wiped...

January 19, 2022

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Australian doctors to be flown into PNG’s quake-stricken areas

March 14, 2018

Farmers near Tolaga Bay face forestry slash damage

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Tolaga Bay farmer seething over forestry slash floods

February 17, 2023

Dramatic increases in food prices always mean there is a famine, even though not every famine is accompanied by rising food costs

Disasters

Soaring food prices prove the Gaza famine is real – and...

August 6, 2025

People dig through mud and rocks today after a major landslide at Yambali

Disasters

PNG landslide: Thousands on standby for evacuation amid fears of new...

May 28, 2024

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Vanuatu orders evacuation of Ambae’s 11,000 people over volcano’s gases

September 28, 2017

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

February 27, 2016

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Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow...

July 9, 2025

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

February 25, 2016

Cyclone Gabrielle

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Cyclone Gabrielle: The science behind its massive power

February 13, 2023

Flooding on the corner of Seabrooke and Margan avenues in New Lynn

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Nick Rockel: When the public’s important at election time, but not...

January 28, 2023

Johnson and Jaqueline Yandam

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PNG landslide: Couple pulled alive from rubble as 690 feared dead

May 27, 2024

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Tourists flee Lombok as Indonesian quake death toll hits 98

August 7, 2018

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‘Play for our people’ call by Southern Highlands musicians after PNG...

March 3, 2018

An aerial shot of the new 2024 RNZ Pacific transmitter

Disasters

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

Pacific Media Watch -

January 25, 2025

Disasters

Typhoon Mangkhut devastates north of Philippines with at least 64 dead

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

September 16, 2018

Fua'amotu International Airport coated in ash

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Tonga eruption: Airport runway cleared of ash, says WHO official

January 20, 2022

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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

"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...

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

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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

Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Asia Report

Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

Opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins

Asia Report

NZ’s opposition leader Chris Hipkins says US-Israel strikes illegal

A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions

Asia Report

After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos...

The PNG Correctional Service headquarters where the alleged assault took place

Crime

PNG Media Council calls for police probe into alleged assault over...

EDITOR'S PICKS

"Trouble is brewing in the West, as people realise just how controlled their rulers are."

Analysis

12 reasons why a huge split is opening up in the...

Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Asia Report

Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

If the US can install another puppet in Tehran as obedient as the Shah after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s refineries will once again be at the mercy of US oil companies

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Why the US has no credible reason or credible...

The first satellite image of the bombing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran on the opening day of the surprise and illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran

Analysis

Neither preemptive nor legal, US-Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up...

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

"Trouble is brewing in the West, as people realise just how controlled their rulers are."

Analysis

12 reasons why a huge split is opening up in the...

Opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins

Asia Report

NZ’s opposition leader Chris Hipkins says US-Israel strikes illegal

Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Asia Report

Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

If the US can install another puppet in Tehran as obedient as the Shah after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s refineries will once again be at the mercy of US oil companies

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Why the US has no credible reason or credible...