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Tonga declares state of emergency to face looming wrath of Cyclone Gita

February 12, 2018

The social value of forestry was considered inefficient and wasteful

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Cyclone Gabrielle triggers more destructive forestry ‘slash’ – NZ must change how it grows trees

Auckland flash flood debris

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NZ flash floods: Residents slam council inaction over rubbish disposal

New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue

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Vanuatu quake: Warnings as bad weather threat looms for Port Vila

Flooding in Tahiti's Teahupo’o village

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Tahiti disaster expected to be called after Teahupo’o village flooded

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PNG trial begins for Rabaul Shipping ferry disaster case

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2016

A slip at Tauranga in New Zealand's North Island split this house in half

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Call NZ’s catastrophic deluge a ‘climate disaster’, says Greenpeace

January 30, 2023

Disasters

Daku has a climate message for the world: ‘Tell them to...

April 27, 2016

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

Theonila Roka Matbob, lead complainant

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

December 8, 2024

Tolukuma mine

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

December 29, 2020

The majestic 150-year-old banyan tree in front of the historic courthouse in Lahaina still stands following destructive wildfires on Maui

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‘Everyone was in panic mode’: Lāhainā resident tells of wildfire escape

August 12, 2023

Cleaning up Tonga's volcano ashfall

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Why no warning sirens before Tonga’s deadly tsunami hit? Minister unclear

January 27, 2022

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Ten primary school children among 80+ people missing on Kiribati ferry

February 1, 2018

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Destruction and construction – Tukuraki’s lonely story of survival

May 9, 2017

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

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

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

A Tongan grandmother shares her tsunami story

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Tonga’s tsunami: ‘Nana! There’s a wave coming … Nana! It’s...

January 25, 2022

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

February 26, 2016

Vanuatu local authorities have been working around the clock since Tuesday to try to locate and rescue people trapped in the Port Vila rubble left by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake this week

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Vanuatu quake: Rescue teams continue Port Vila hunt for survivors

December 19, 2024

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

Aid after Vanuatu's cyclones Judy and Kelvin

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Vanuatu minister says harvests will take time to recover after cyclones

March 23, 2023

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

March 3, 2018

The landslide devastation at Yambili village

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

May 25, 2024

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100 homes damaged, people from Korovou village cry for help

February 25, 2016

Fresh fish at a wet market

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How Fukushima wastewater into Pacific will disrupt seafood trade

April 15, 2023

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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

POPULAR POSTS

The only sensible stance is to stand against the carnage

Asia Report

Saige England: Call out the Zionist hypocrisy – genociders are settler...

The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

Analysis

The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

You could always count on Lindsey Graham to be the first and loudest voice arguing in favour of more death

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: Well, at least Lindsey Graham is dead

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

EDITOR'S PICKS

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

Analysis

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

Disputed Hunter Island

Decolonisation

Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

Development

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

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

Fiji's Labour Party leader and a former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry

Crime

‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged...

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

Analysis

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

Disputed Hunter Island

Decolonisation

Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court