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NZ Budget 2026 . . . Foreign Minister Winston Peters says a "highly active and effective foreign policy" is called for

Economics

NZ Budget 2026 boosts Pacific aid, defence spending amid security concerns

May 28, 2026

The New Caledonia Congress in session in November 2024

Economics

New Caledonia political crisis costs one third of multi-million French package

Invoking the Pacific's Biketawa Declaration

Economics

Pacific Forum responds to current global fuel and energy challenges

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

Economics

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

Tahiti's President Moetai Brotherson

Economics

‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence

Three flags in Tahiti

Economics

French Polynesia’s economy on ‘good path’, says Paris-based institute

May 9, 2023

Ponsonby post office shop

Economics

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

June 11, 2025

NZ Budget 2022

Economics

NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system

May 19, 2022

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Economics

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

February 27, 2025

Manila lockdown

Economics

State must fund urgent Filipino health, social needs now, say economists

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

March 23, 2020

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Economics

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

May 9, 2026

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

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

Economics

Eugene Doyle: Mark Carney’s moment – a new non-aligned movement?

January 22, 2026

Economics

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

September 13, 2017

Mining giant RioTinto

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Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant

July 24, 2024

Economics

NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir

Sri Krishnamurthi -

April 15, 2020

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

Economics

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

July 15, 2026

Economics

Has the new world order failed? UN calls for new global...

July 20, 2020

PNG shipping of oil and hydrocarbons

Economics

PNG oil and LNG shipments face foreign waters ban if waste...

July 16, 2024

Economics

#COP21: ‘Counting the Cost’ – constructive conference or a waste of...

December 8, 2015

NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins (pictured) and Finance Minister Grant Robertson announce a $50 million support package

Economics

Cyclone Gabrielle: Hipkins announces recovery taskforce, $50m support

February 20, 2023

May Day rally in Jakarta 2022

Economics

Indonesia’s Labour Party calls for ‘fair elections’ on time at May...

May 2, 2022

Beyond the Bubble

Economics

Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

July 5, 2026

Papua New Guinea . . . on the "grey list"

Economics

PNG one step away from blacklist, warns global money laundering watchdog

February 18, 2026

PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

Economics

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

May 28, 2025

Climate provisions in New Zealand's Budget 2023

Economics

Budget 2023: NZ’s climate and science sectors react to wins and...

May 19, 2023

NZ PM Jacinda Ardern

Economics

Trust in government is high in NZ, but will it last...

April 15, 2020

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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

BEARING WITNESS

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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...

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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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"Alii - welcome to Palau"

Economics

Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat

PSNA's Leeann Wahanui-Peters reading out Te Pāti Māori's statement for co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Asia Report

NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Asia Report

Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau

The University of Sydney

Asia Report

Alumni revolt over Israel: 450 Sydney Uni staff, graduates accuse university...

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US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Economics

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Climate

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott

Asia Report

How Free Palestine party plans to pressure NZ govt over its...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

Economics

US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’

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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

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024

Asia Report

‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom?

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Economics

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Climate

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott

Asia Report

How Free Palestine party plans to pressure NZ govt over its...