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PNG covid testing station

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

March 18, 2021

The Handala crew in emergency positions as the Israeli military stormed the Gaza-bound aid ship

Disasters

Gaza condemns Israeli ‘piracy’ over storming of Handala aid ship

A massive NZ rescue and aid operation follows the devastation left by Cyclone Gabrielle, especially in the Hawke's Bay and Gisborne regions

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Cyclone Gabrielle: NZ death toll rises, ‘grave concerns’ for several missing

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Highlands security crisis hampers PNG quake response

A local business sign in Port Vila reads “Stay strong and carry on Vanuatu”

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Vanuatu one month on: aftershocks, a no-go zone and anxiety

Filipino rescuers at work in Mangcayo barangay near Vinzons, Bicol

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Remote Mangcayo school among areas hit by Typhoon Kristine floods

October 28, 2024

"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

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

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Shortwave radio saves lives and foreign aid dollars, says McGarry

August 4, 2018

An aerial shot of the new 2024 RNZ Pacific transmitter

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

Pacific Media Watch -

January 25, 2025

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NZ sending more Defence Force engineers to assist Fiji

February 28, 2016

TC Harold

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Restricted movement on Viti Levu as TC Harold hammers Fiji

April 8, 2020

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Ambae volcano ‘more stable’, say Vanuatu’s monitoring scientists

October 2, 2017

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

April 27, 2016

Another shelter day for the Tangata Tuārangi RSE workers

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Pasifika songs of gratitude ring out across Hawke’s Bay

February 18, 2023

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Death toll in Indonesia’s Lombok quake rises to 91

August 6, 2018

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PNG deploys ships and soldiers to Manam for emergency evacuation

August 26, 2018

Fiji police

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Fiji lifts movement restrictions in wake of TC Harold destruction

April 9, 2020

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How mining and militarisation led to an HIV epidemic in Indonesia’s...

November 26, 2016

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

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US worried about losing out in South Pacific to Chinese influence

February 6, 2022

A national state of emergency declared in Aotearoa New Zealand

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NZ declares national emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle unleashes fury across...

February 14, 2023

Flood damage in Nelson

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A river runs through city – Nelson surveys damage and clean-up...

August 19, 2022

NBC Five Mile fire

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Two children die as fire guts PNG’s national broadcaster units

August 28, 2021

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

Auckland flash flood debris

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NZ flash floods: Residents slam council inaction over rubbish disposal

February 2, 2023

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Gallery: Vanuatu ‘welcomes all’ to rebuilt traditional chiefs’ nakamal meeting house

March 7, 2025

The container ship Dali

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Baltimore bridge crash ship carrying toxic waste to Sri Lanka, says...

April 2, 2024

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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

A recent New Zealand pro-Palestinian and pro-Iranian rally which condemned the double standards over Israel's nuclear weapons

Analysis

Double standards? Why Israel’s nukes get a ‘pass’ while Iran is...

Sydney CAM Rally . . . CAM uses tactics including social media, lobbying politicians and convening conferences to relentlessly pursue its goal of entrenching the IHRA definition of antisemitism into policy at all levels

Analysis

Australia’s Combat Antisemitism Movement keeps slaying social cohesion

Olivia Coote presents a welcome home koha to Global Sumud Flotilla activists Mousa Taher (centre) and Hāhona Ormsby (black cap) at Auckland International Airport

Asia Report

Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal...

Australian protesters condemn the torture of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails at a demonstration in Adelaide, South Australia, in December 2025

Analysis

US-built ‘torture ship’ and US funding played role in kidnapping, torture...

EDITOR'S PICKS

"The face of courage vs the face of evil"

Analysis

‘He’s Māori!’ Hāhona Ormsby – a New Zealander in the Israeli...

"The end of the US Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless President Donald Trump, is irreversible."

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...

Al Jazeera English’s Open Source Unit reports on the land Illegally in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria taken over by the Israeli military

Asia Report

How the Israeli military is illegally grabbing land ‘everywhere’

Joseph Vaa, 27, admitted gunning down suspected "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia outside a restaurant last week. Vaa's associate, Steve Tofa, 23, has confessed to being his accomplice in the shooting

Crime

Samoan nationals could face death penalty over ‘Coconut Cartel’ killing in...

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

"The end of the US Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless President Donald Trump, is irreversible."

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...

Al Jazeera English’s Open Source Unit reports on the land Illegally in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria taken over by the Israeli military

Asia Report

How the Israeli military is illegally grabbing land ‘everywhere’

Joseph Vaa, 27, admitted gunning down suspected "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia outside a restaurant last week. Vaa's associate, Steve Tofa, 23, has confessed to being his accomplice in the shooting

Crime

Samoan nationals could face death penalty over ‘Coconut Cartel’ killing in...

Five Palestinian journalists from Gaza imprisoned in Israeli jails

Analysis

Palestinian journalists from Gaza ‘treated inhumanely’ by Israeli army and Shin...