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Kiribati President Taneti Maamau (left) and NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Economics

NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau govt minister says ‘impacts to be felt by the people’

January 28, 2025

Tuvalu delegates Monise Laafai and Demi Afasene

Economics

Nations join ranks to delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator

Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape greeted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Jakarta

Economics

Marape flags Pertamina fuel deal amid trade, bilateral talks in Indonesia

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

Economics

PNG bid to buy Rio Tinto’s shares in mine company ‘unacceptable’ – Momis

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Economics

Climate Change Commission plan ‘big challenge’ for New Zealand

February 1, 2021

A "Netanyahu wanted for child killing" placard at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland this month

Economics

ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders ‘wake up call’ for NZ,...

November 22, 2024

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Economics

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

Incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare

Economics

Solomon Islands political chess begins with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in East...

April 20, 2024

The flag of Hawai'i waves beside a sign reading "Tourist(s) Keep Out" in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires

Economics

Anger in Hawai’i over threat of land grabs after wildfire disaster

August 22, 2023

Economics

Accidents expose lax safety hitting Indonesia’s infrastructure projects

February 15, 2018

Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau

Economics

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

August 24, 2023

Papua New Guinea

PNG landowners shut down the LNG project with ‘no hope’ to...

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August 8, 2016

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

Economics

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

January 25, 2023

New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil

Economics

Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face...

November 18, 2025

Guarding Panguna mine

Economics

Panguna share value doubles overnight after landowners opt to reopen mine

February 15, 2022

Economics

Chinese president meets PNG’s O’Neill, pledging ‘deepening cooperation’

June 22, 2018

Professor Biman Prasad addressing the Pacific Update conference

Economics

‘Other people’s wars’, climate crisis – South Pacific not in good...

June 21, 2023

Economics

Despite Trump, 2017 should be another top year for global wind

January 19, 2017

Three flags in Tahiti

Economics

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

May 9, 2023

Economics

Could covid-19 spell the end of world mobility as we know...

May 12, 2020

China's regional Pacific ambitions

Economics

Kiribati ‘forced’ to allow China visit on Pacific mission, says journalist

May 27, 2022

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

Labour Day in NZ

Economics

Bryan Bruce: Labour Day … eroded by neoliberalism and selfishness

October 26, 2020

PIF Zoom

Economics

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

August 7, 2021

Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji 12072022

Economics

Empty seats mark first Pacific Islands Forum summit meeting

July 12, 2022

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

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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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Pro-independence advocate Emmanuel Tjibaou, one of the two MPs representing New Caledonia at the Assembly

Decolonisation

French National Assembly rejects New Caledonia’s constitutional reform

Bibi Amena

Asia Report

Protesters condemn Luxon govt for failing to condemn illegal war on...

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

Pope Leo and US President Donald Trump

Asia Report

Pope’s message for peace: ‘The Church cannot remain silent when power...

EDITOR'S PICKS

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

Analysis

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

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

Iran says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire

Analysis

‘Someone, everyone, stop them’ – and now Trump has pulled back...

The "Israelian" . . . media managed complicity

Analysis

This isn’t journalism – Australia’s Bowen beat-up and the Iran war

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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

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

Analysis

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

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

Iran says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire

Analysis

‘Someone, everyone, stop them’ – and now Trump has pulled back...

The "Israelian" . . . media managed complicity

Analysis

This isn’t journalism – Australia’s Bowen beat-up and the Iran war