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Fiji Trades Union Congress board member Daniel Urai (left) and Fiji Trade Union Congress national secretary Felix Anthony

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Call for legal shield for Fiji National Provident Fund in review hearing

August 18, 2025

Senior ministers from Australia and Vanuatu initialled the Nakamal Agreement at the top of Mount Yasur. (ABC News: Lillyrose Welwel) Photo: ABC News / Lillyrose Welwel

Economics

New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst

Prime Minister Mark Brown says the New Zealand-Cook Islands relationship is too strong

Economics

Mark Brown rejects talk of ‘strategic shift’ in Cook Islands-New Zealand relationship

During the visit of the USS Cincinnati to Majuro in July, Marshallese veterans were honoured with a dinner and programme on board the US Navy vessel

Economics

Pacific Islands military veterans hope for US action over benefits

The new New Zealand investment bill is convoluted and would significantly reduce effective scrutiny of foreign investments

Economics

Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny?

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese

Economics

UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy...

July 4, 2025

Flags from most of the Micronesian islands participating in the regional summit this week fly outside the International Conference Center

Economics

Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step...

July 1, 2025

Fiji Finance Minister and DPM Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

Fiji’s Dr Prasad unveils $4.8b budget as deficit widens

June 30, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron

Economics

Decoding PNG leader Marape’s talks with French President Macron

June 17, 2025

Bougainville President Ishamel Toroama speaking at the launch of the Bougainville Digital Democracy Project earlier this year

Economics

Progress reported out of Bougainville independence talks at Burnham

June 12, 2025

Ponsonby post office shop

Economics

‘Gutting the Ponsonby community’: Locals say post office should stay open

June 11, 2025

Ponsonby Post Office in Three Lamps

Economics

Ponsonby community up in arms over impending post office closure

June 7, 2025

Rassemblement National's Marie Le Pen

Economics

French politicians in New Caledonia to stir the political melting pot

May 30, 2025

PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

Economics

Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections

May 28, 2025

NZ Finance Minister Nicola Willis

Economics

Budget 2025: Pacific Ministry faces major cuts, yet new initiatives aim...

May 22, 2025

New Zealand is hurtling towards a sharply divided country of extreme wealth and extreme poverty

Economics

Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t

May 22, 2025

Vietnam today is united and free and millions of ordinary people have achieved security, health, education and prosperity

Economics

50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to...

April 30, 2025

The Norfolk Island flag at the 2023 Pacific Games

Economics

‘Not an extension of Australia’ – Trump’s tariffs ‘reinforces’ Norfolk Island’s...

April 4, 2025

Previous tariff announcements by the Trump administration dropped sand into the cogs of international trade

Economics

New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs –...

April 3, 2025

Fiji's port in the capital of Suva

Economics

Fiji slapped with Trump’s highest tariffs among Pacific countries

April 3, 2025

Māori entities have grown from contributing $17 billion to New Zealand's GDP

Economics

Dramatic growth of NZ’s Māori economy highlights new report

March 14, 2025

NZ's major print media and radio company NZME

Economics

Union wary of Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon’s NZ media influence

Pacific Media Watch -

March 6, 2025

The aftermath of Indonesian forces burning temporary shelters in the Star Mountains, West Papua

Economics

Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan...

March 2, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Economics

Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says...

February 27, 2025

Al Jazeera's senior political and media analyst Marwan Bishara

Economics

Media analyst criticises Trump for applying ‘strategic coercion, economic blackmail’ policy

Pacific Media Watch -

February 22, 2025

Cook islanders protest in the streets of Avarua today

Economics

Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government

February 18, 2025

Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) in Harbin

Economics

China deal ‘complements, not replaces’ NZ relationship, says Cook Islands PM

February 15, 2025

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Economics

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Economics

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

BEARING WITNESS

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

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

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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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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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) held bilateral discussions with the United Nations Secretary-General

Democracy

UN chief to address PNG parliament today during ‘historic’ visit

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Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"

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Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua

Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son

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Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....

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Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son

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Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....

A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel

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Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear...

Dr Anthony Bellanger, the French general-secretary of the Brussels-based International FeDeration of Journalists, talks to Al Jazeera in an interview today on the death toll of Gazan journalists

Asia Report

250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Democracy

Fijian PM Rabuka hints at ‘historic’ referendum after landmark court ruling

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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

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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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Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers

Bougainville

‘We want legitimate leaders’: Bougainvilleans head to the polls amid push...

Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son

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Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....

Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"

Civil Society

Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) held bilateral discussions with the United Nations Secretary-General

Democracy

UN chief to address PNG parliament today during ‘historic’ visit