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Prime Minister of Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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NZ to provide $15m to support Samoa over climate change action

August 2, 2022

Invoking the Pacific's Biketawa Declaration

Economics

Pacific Forum responds to current global fuel and energy challenges

The UN General Assembly

Economics

Call for UN sanctions on Israel to implement ICJ ruling on illegality of Palestine occupation

Economics

West Papua: Mining in an occupation forgotten by the world

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Quill award winner Adele Ferguson slams Fairfax media job cuts

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Papuan landowners in PNG to receive first LNG project royalties of...

September 13, 2017

A US protester holds placards reading ‘’war making is a crime’’

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‘Maniacal tyrant’ Trump and Iran trade threats to energy infrastructure over...

March 23, 2026

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HSBC accused of being ‘dirty banker’ financing palm oil forest destruction

January 17, 2017

Economics

American Samoa tuna cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Tokelau

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May 29, 2017

Hawai'i Governor Josh Green talks to Face the Nation

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Struggling Maui residents now ‘pleading’ for tourists to return

August 25, 2023

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

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Decoding PNG leader Marape’s talks with French President Macron

June 17, 2025

Simona Marinescu (right) with former Samoa PM Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi

Economics

UN relationship with Samoa under a cloud over ‘political breaches’

November 29, 2021

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Pacific ‘hub’ Fiji keen to join NZ-Australia travel bubble

May 12, 2020

A sunset in the Mamanucas, Fiji

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‘Tourists buzzing’ in resorts and islands as Fiji welcomes back visitors

December 3, 2022

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

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

October 2, 2023

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Indonesia risks ending up with a doomed ‘can’t-do’ climate plan

July 17, 2018

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

SPREP’s Director-General Sefanaia Nawadra

Economics

High Seas Treaty welcome news for SPREP in uncertain times

January 21, 2026

Republic of Marshall Islands President David Kabua

Economics

‘Our future looks secure’, says Puna on Pacific Islands Forum unity

February 21, 2023

Azerbaijian’s National Assembly Chair Sahiba Gafarova (left) and pro-independence New Caledonia Congress member Omayra Naisseline

Economics

Controversial Azerbaijan deal sparks fresh row in New Caledonia

April 26, 2024

Fiji's 2023 Budget

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Fiji’s 2023 Budget: Major spending and projects but high debt ‘on...

July 1, 2023

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TPPA national interest analysis criticised as flimsy and biased

January 27, 2016

$Neoliberalism caused two fractures in the world – why Iran’s resistance is so vital$

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Neoliberalism caused two fractures in the world – why Iran’s resistance...

April 17, 2026

Exxon Mobil PNG's LNG plant near Port Moresby

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Papua New Guinea fully retires debt for Liquefied Natural Gas project

January 7, 2026

The Kiribati Parliament House

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What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?

August 5, 2024

Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .

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Bougainville Copper Limited takes stock after Panguna licence setback

June 23, 2026

Economics

Housing trust chief slams ‘short cuts’ approach to NZ homes crisis

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October 26, 2018

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

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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

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

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

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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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Tehran doesn't answer vulgarity with vulgarity

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Pacific Elders Voice group's chair Anote Tong

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A TPNPB resistance fighter stands guard on the charred aircraft remains

Asia Report

Fears of more conflict in West Papua after American pilot killed

Minuteman III test launch, California

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Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

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Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

Civil Society

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

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Pacific Elders Voice group's chair Anote Tong

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PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

Civil Society

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

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‘They’re scum.’ F bombs and real bombs. Trump completely outclassed by...

Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jnr

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Palau’s President warns of rising nuclear anxiety in the Pacific, after...

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

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Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...