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Economics

NZ election 2023: Growing Pasifika population equals greater electoral power

September 14, 2023

The new sign for Kaipātiki Hot Springs

Economics

Popular Auckland hot springs gets name change to Kaipātiki

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Economics

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll and its 230 people

James Marape

Economics

Post-Courier: PNG presence must reflect climate change solutions

The author, Joe Hendren, stands in Martyr's Square, Beruit

Economics

Kia kaha Lebanon: NZ media only tell half your story of struggle

New Zealand's new energy fund initiative underpins the government’s aspirational goal of having 100 percent of electricity generated by renewable sources by 2035

Economics

10 smart ways NZ can be strategic about addressing climate change...

August 11, 2023

"Alii - welcome to Palau"

Economics

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

August 31, 2026

Economics

‘Flight of the myna’ – behind the smiles in post-coup Fiji...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

September 12, 2018

New Zealand's super city Auckland

Economics

Super city Auckland’s council financial results signal tough times ahead

August 31, 2022

Fiji Finance Minister and DPM Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

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

June 30, 2025

Pacific Affairs Minister Aupito William Sio

Economics

Aupito heads to Fiji as government faces pressure over China strategy

May 31, 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron and Papua New Guinea PM James Marape meeting

Economics

PNG prime minister visits France, plans to open Paris embassy

May 26, 2026

James Marape

Economics

Scott Waide: Open letter to PM James Marape: Treat our people fairly

January 2, 2021

Economics

New Caledonia celebrates Bastille Day and thinks about independence

July 27, 2018

New Zealand is hurtling towards a sharply divided country of extreme wealth and extreme poverty

Economics

Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t

May 22, 2025

Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) in Harbin

Economics

China deal ‘complements, not replaces’ NZ relationship, says Cook Islands PM

February 15, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Economics

Marape blasts foreign media, claiming ‘fake news’ on mining conference

Pacific Media Watch -

December 9, 2022

The Strait of Hormuz

Economics

Iran’s ‘Samson option’ : Deterrence restored or nothing – the logic...

March 18, 2026

A two-year investigation by Inland Revenue

Economics

Rich-lister supports NZ capital gains tax as new research opens fresh...

April 27, 2023

"Thousands of casual academic staff were laid off during covid-19 pandemic closures

Economics

‘Shameful wage stealing’ endemic at Australian universities, says report

March 1, 2023

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

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

The port of Noumea in New Caledonia . . . unions had sought an across-the-board pay increase of 6 percent in the private sector to offset inflation

Economics

New Caledonia unions win pay rise for lowest earners

December 20, 2022

Merauke Archbishop

Economics

Papuan landowner advocate condemns diocese link to palm oil companies

January 13, 2021

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...

October 2, 2023

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

Chinese sulky silence with Pacific media

Economics

How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom

July 14, 2022

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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

POPULAR POSTS

Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine

Asia Report

PSNA raps NZ govt over ‘haphazard’ foreign policy and mixed messages

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...

Leaders at the round table for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting Plenary in Koror, Palau

China

Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’...

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

EDITOR'S PICKS

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Analysis

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Economics

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...

Facilitators at a New Zealand public protest meeting in Auckland this week planning for a Global March for Palestine on October 10

Asia Report

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval

MOST COMMENTS

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

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Analysis

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Economics

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...

Facilitators at a New Zealand public protest meeting in Auckland this week planning for a Global March for Palestine on October 10

Asia Report

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval