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Economics

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

April 27, 2023

The New Caledonia Congress in session in November 2024

Economics

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

Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad

Economics

Fiji’s Prasad reaches out to the NZ diaspora to help rebuild nation

Pacific election promises in NZ

Economics

NZ election 2023: Growing Pasifika population equals greater electoral power

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 own ‘freedom of seas’ doctrine

Economics

Murray Horton: Hey, Jacinda, let’s do this – be truly independent

October 23, 2017

Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust

Economics

Academics call for divestment from NZ pensions fund implicated in Gaza

February 3, 2026

World Vision says humanitarian agencies are not seeing the lawlessness and disregard for international humanitarian law in the Pacific

Economics

Pacific humanitarian workers face major logistical and access challenges, says World...

August 19, 2026

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with extended whānau - family (he is pictured fourth from left)

Economics

Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s...

August 17, 2026

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Economics

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

June 3, 2022

New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli

Economics

New Caledonia’s President Tukumuli outlines six-month recovery roadmap

August 26, 2026

PNG's deputy opposition leader James Nomane

Economics

‘Reckless’ kina devaluation spells disaster for PNG, says Nomane

May 8, 2024

True cost of covid pandemic

Economics

Covid-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters...

April 20, 2021

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) with PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Economics

‘We’re victims of global power play’ – Pacific backs India, says...

May 22, 2023

Economics

Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners

May 30, 2019

Economics

Climate change hits low-lying islands in Bougainville

November 10, 2016

Simona Marinescu (right) with former Samoa PM Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi

Economics

UN relationship with Samoa under a cloud over ‘political breaches’

November 29, 2021

Koniambo Nickel

Economics

Mothballed northern New Caledonia nickel company appoints new chair

January 13, 2025

Economics

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

July 20, 2020

PNG Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey

Economics

PNG Treasurer explains K2.6b ‘miscellaneous’ budget costs

December 13, 2022

$Neoliberalism caused two fractures in the world – why Iran’s resistance is so vital$

Economics

Neoliberalism caused two fractures in the world – why Iran’s resistance...

April 17, 2026

Solomon Star's report on China visit 17July23

Economics

NZ govt says it ‘honoured’ Solomons support, rejects Sogavare’s claims

July 18, 2023

The Marshalls Energy Company and its power plant has faced a near doubling of its diesel fuel costs since the US/Israel attacked Iran on February 28

Economics

Marshall Islands government shuts down at 3pm daily amid fuel crisis

April 17, 2026

Economics

Investments minister ‘rules out’ more palm oil plantations in Papua

March 3, 2020

Economics

Indonesia risks ending up with a doomed ‘can’t-do’ climate plan

July 17, 2018

China's regional Pacific ambitions

Economics

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

May 27, 2022

Economics

Solomons academic calls for caution over Taiwan/China decision

June 14, 2019

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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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"Never again, never forget" says the slogan for Martial Law Day

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Melissa Cruz: The power of collective memory on martial law –...

For as long as states have made war, they have assassinated, disappeared, tortured and executed

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Gaza genocide: We made machines that think – then corrupted them...

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Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

Labour's Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni

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Labour promises visa-free travel for Pacific as overstayer rates rise

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Invercargill Council becomes seventh NZ local body to ban illegal Israeli...

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Fijian chief calls for scrutiny of Fiji-Australia security treaties

Indonesia's President Prabowo speaking dressed in a keffiyeh

Asia Report

Prabowo’s tears and cries of ‘Free Palestine’ are not enough

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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

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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Fiji's Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara

Australia

Fijian chief calls for scrutiny of Fiji-Australia security treaties

"Never again, never forget" says the slogan for Martial Law Day

Asia Report

Melissa Cruz: The power of collective memory on martial law –...

For as long as states have made war, they have assassinated, disappeared, tortured and executed

Analysis

Gaza genocide: We made machines that think – then corrupted them...

Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham and co-director Rachel Szor receiving the Venice Special Jury Prize for their critical Gaza war film

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The controversial documentary NAZA: 10 reasons to defend this whistleblower war...