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Fiji Parliament . . . big salary increases for the President, Speaker, Ministers, Assistant Ministers, and MPs

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The Fiji Times: Public outcry over Fijians’ MPs pay rise

May 26, 2024

Hawai'i Governor Josh Green talks to Face the Nation

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Struggling Maui residents now ‘pleading’ for tourists to return

Labour leader Chris Hipkins has shown no sign he is capable of leading the rejuvenation policy the party needs

Economics

NZ election 2023: Labour’s disconnect with the electorate – and with itself

Economics

TPP signing sparks dozens of protests across US over biggest trade pact

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 sovereignty

PIF Zoom

Economics

Micronesian leaders boycott Forum, stand firm on plan to leave bloc

August 7, 2021

Economics

Rousing, inspirational public challenge to ‘no way’ TPPA deal

January 27, 2016

Economics

Indonesia prone to cyber attacks up to the year 2025, says...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 30, 2018

Economics

Noumea visitors help Vanuatu celebrate 38 years of freedom

July 31, 2018

Economics

Chinese officials kick out EMTV, foreign media from APEC events –...

November 17, 2018

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

August 18, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape reshuffles cabine

Economics

Marape reshuffles PNG cabinet – Treasurer demoted, Tkatchenko back

January 19, 2024

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Economics

Papua New Guinea celebrates 49 years of independence from Australia

September 16, 2024

Economics

TPP signing sparks dozens of protests across US over biggest trade...

February 6, 2016

Economics

West Papua: Mining in an occupation forgotten by the world

December 16, 2015

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

Hawai'i Governor Josh Green talks to Face the Nation

Economics

Struggling Maui residents now ‘pleading’ for tourists to return

August 25, 2023

News Corp Google inquiry

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Google aren’t ‘stealing’ news content, publisher Eric Beecher tells Senate

Pacific Media Watch -

February 2, 2021

NZ's Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins

Economics

NZ election 2023: Better ways than taxation to bring down living...

September 12, 2023

Climate action

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New Biden era heralds global climate politics switch with US rejoining...

November 9, 2020

Retired academic Professor Vijay Naidu and Fonu Emberson-Bain -- wearing the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) tee-shirt

Economics

Rabuka’s nuclear wastewater discharge stance splits Fiji coalition opinion

August 28, 2023

PNG Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and Minister for Environment Conservation and Climate Change Minister Wera Mori

Economics

Almost K6m COP26 bill for PNG climate delegation shocks nation

November 6, 2021

Fiji Finance Minister and DPM Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

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

June 30, 2025

Economics

Freeport’s $3.8b divestment mine deal – what it actually means

July 15, 2018

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking at the opening of COP30, yesterday

Economics

COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold...

November 11, 2025

Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau

Economics

MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau

August 24, 2023

Papua New Guinea

Don’t use force to resolve LNG shut down, warns PNG opposition

KINJAP Peter S. -

August 9, 2016

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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

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

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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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Dame Jacinda Ardern, Special Envoy for Oceania and former prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand (right) and Coral Pasisi, Director of Climate Change and Sustainability at the Pacific Community (SPC)

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Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in...

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support

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Gaza ‘ceasefire’ simply means that Israel can do whatever it wants....

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Australian journalist Roger Domm with Falintil resistance fighters in Timor-Leste in 1990

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Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus at Rarotonga port last month, holding banners proclaiming "Don’t Mine The Moana"

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Growing local opposition to seabed mining decision has forced Cook Islands...

Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by the Israeli military in air strikes in spite of the Gaza ceasefire on 19 October 2025

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The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide –...

Australian journalist Roger Domm with Falintil resistance fighters in Timor-Leste in 1990

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Timor-Leste’s Xanana Gusmão pays tribute to journalist Robert Domm over independence...

USTKE and other inter-union members met French Overseas Minister Naïma Moutchou on her visit to Camp Est prison in Nouméa

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French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia