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Mayor Wayne Brown's backdown

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Auckland Council fails to decide over controversial budget – reconvening today

June 9, 2023

New Caledonia's President Louis Mapou

Economics

French ‘nickel pact’ to bail out New Caledonia’s industry delayed

China flag

Economics

China enters 2021 a stronger, more influential power — and Australia may feel the squeeze even more

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

Economics

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

Port Moresby housing

Economics

Rebecca Kuku: No end in sight for Port Moresby’s unaffordable rental prices

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Economics

Papua New Guinea celebrates 49 years of independence from Australia

September 16, 2024

Dr Ashley Bloomfield

Economics

Eight new cases of coronavirus in NZ – $12.1b rescue package...

March 18, 2020

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Climate change hits low-lying islands in Bougainville

November 10, 2016

Professor Biman Prasad (left) and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in December 2022

Economics

‘Political chaos’ – Fiji PM Rabuka confirms Biman Prasad’s resignation

October 29, 2025

Economics

Marshall Islands president narrowly survives no-confidence vote

November 13, 2018

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

Economics

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins defends cost-of-living record, promises more action

January 25, 2023

Fiji's port in the capital of Suva

Economics

Fiji slapped with Trump’s highest tariffs among Pacific countries

April 3, 2025

Drone footage of Atafu, a low-lying motu of Tokelau

Economics

Tokelau airport project scrapped despite multi-million dollar design

January 23, 2026

SPREP’s Director-General Sefanaia Nawadra

Economics

High Seas Treaty welcome news for SPREP in uncertain times

January 21, 2026

Economics

Time for Xanana Gusmao to step up and fix Timor-Leste’s problems

May 26, 2018

"New Zealand has an opportunity to get ahead of the global backlash"

Economics

Bryce Edwards: What the Epstein scandal means for NZ politics

February 16, 2026

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

July 28, 2025

NZ Finance Minister Grant Robertson

Economics

NZ budget 2021: What does $108m mean for Pasifika ‘wellbeing’?

May 21, 2021

Economics

US President Obama Insists TPP means America will write the rules...

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November 6, 2015

Fiji Finance Minister and DPM Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

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

June 30, 2025

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

Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Economics

‘Big picture vision’ conversations missing in Pacific, says Aqorau

March 29, 2023

Economics

Resource rich economies dwarf the region, ADB conference told

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July 18, 2016

US President Trump wrote in his social media post

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‘Straight-up piracy and extortion’: Trump says he will control money from...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 8, 2026

NZ's major print media and radio company NZME

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

Pacific Media Watch -

March 6, 2025

Fiji's 2023 Budget

Economics

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

July 1, 2023

Grant Robertson NZ

Economics

NZ’s new covid action: $50bn rescue fund in ‘once in a...

May 14, 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

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

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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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US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins

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Why Trump’s naval blockade to ‘strangle’ Iran is a joke

So now this modern American Nero struggles to convince us that he "won"

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How Trump’s White House demands as prerequisites for stopping bombings bit...

Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28

Analysis

Iran threatens retaliation over Gulf ‘piracy’ in Trump’s naval blockade

A "New Zealand government must sanction Israel" banner flutters on one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

Asia Report

Global Sumud Flotilla heads from Barcelona to break Gaza blockade

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A "dove of peace" in Iran

Analysis

Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their...

Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28

Analysis

Iran threatens retaliation over Gulf ‘piracy’ in Trump’s naval blockade

A "New Zealand government must sanction Israel" banner flutters on one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

Asia Report

Global Sumud Flotilla heads from Barcelona to break Gaza blockade

Flooding near Whitianga cuts off a state highway.

Climate

Cyclone Vaianu: Damaging winds, heavy rain hit NZ’s North Island

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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

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 RFMF has assured the Fiji public that "there is no threat to public safety"

Crime

Fiji military puts public ‘on notice’ citing national security threats

PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal (from left), councillor Julie Fairey and Kathy Ross

Asia Report

Auckland Council committee votes to review illegal Israeli settlement policies

A "dove of peace" in Iran

Analysis

Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their...

US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins

Analysis

Why Trump’s naval blockade to ‘strangle’ Iran is a joke