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Fiji Parliament . . . big salary increases for the President, Speaker, Ministers, Assistant Ministers, and MPs

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The Fiji Times: Public outcry over Fijians’ MPs pay rise

May 26, 2024

Fiji human rights protesters march through Suva City yesterday

Economics

Violence against children in Fiji costs nation $460m, says Unicef study

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

Economics

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

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

James Shaw 010221

Economics

Climate Change Commission plan ‘big challenge’ for New Zealand

Oceanographers deploy a buoy inside the Rose Atoll in American Samoa waters

Economics

Environmental groups, chiefs file lawsuit as US pushes American Samoa deep...

October 21, 2026

NZ's major print media and radio company NZME

Economics

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

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March 6, 2025

Mango dawn

Economics

Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to...

September 13, 2021

Economics

Contribution by Pacific community more than money, says academic

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November 21, 2018

Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Economics

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

March 29, 2023

New Zealand's news media have been warned

Economics

NZ elections: Where are much-needed party policies on media?

September 15, 2026

Economics

Biman Prasad: COP23 presidency — facing the gravity of the task...

January 15, 2017

Economics

500 US marines arrive in PNG to bolster APEC summit security

November 15, 2018

Economics

Xanana Gusmão opposes extending state of emergency in Timor-Leste

April 30, 2020

Economics

Chinese banks provide 40 percent of Fiji’s foreign loans

May 24, 2017

Pacific Elders Voice group's chair Anote Tong

Economics

Pacific at a crossroads amid growing geopolitical tension, says former leaders’...

July 8, 2026

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

Economics

Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

September 17, 2024

Climate adaptation

Economics

Pacific voices urge experts to ‘decolonise’ adaptation at New Zealand’s largest...

October 15, 2025

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

Economics

Shaping sustainable finance – a roadmap for NZ’s future

November 11, 2020

Economics

Barry Coates: PACER Plus – how the Pacific Way is being...

April 21, 2017

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

Economics

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

November 21, 2024

Some Americans are fighting every day to save the babies of Cuba

Economics

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

August 9, 2026

John Taukave (left) from the Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport and Miss Samoa Litara Ieremia-Allan (second from left) at COP29

Economics

COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit

November 30, 2024

Dr Ashley Bloomfield

Economics

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

March 18, 2020

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

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

Economics

NZ’s Luxon briefly stopping over to see Marape in Port Moresby

June 16, 2024

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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...

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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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Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini

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Gaza media: ‘Why we document history – even if accountability feels...

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

Analysis

The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Asia Report

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

The French and Kanak flags flying high

Business

New Caledonia pro-independence leaders boycott EU critical minerals deal

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I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide

Commentary

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

Democracy

Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

Analysis

The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

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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

I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide

Commentary

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

Analysis

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Asia Report

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...