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Bryce Edwards: Ardern’s Labour government stands by as NZ social problems worsen

November 13, 2020

Economics

China plans ‘greener, cleaner’ industry but faces complex challenges

Mining giant RioTinto

Economics

Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Economics

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

A little-known arrangement that puts proceedings of New Zealand's Parliament on the air has been cited as a threat to AM broadcasting's future

Economics

Mediawatch: Signal to noise – is NZ’s AM radio really under threat?

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

Economics

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

July 15, 2026

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

Papua New Guinea

Don’t use force to resolve LNG shut down, warns PNG opposition

KINJAP Peter S. -

August 9, 2016

A US protester holds placards reading ‘’war making is a crime’’

Economics

‘Maniacal tyrant’ Trump and Iran trade threats to energy infrastructure over...

March 23, 2026

Chinese sulky silence with Pacific media

Economics

How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom

July 14, 2022

Economics

Indonesia’s development dilemmas – a green info gap and budget pressure

November 15, 2017

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena

Economics

Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?

January 27, 2026

Economics

Bryan Bruce: Staring into the face of the TPPA ‘shamocracy’

April 10, 2016

Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon

Economics

NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in...

July 27, 2022

PIF Zoom

Economics

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

August 7, 2021

PNG Communications Technology Minister Tmothy Masiu

Economics

A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook

July 20, 2024

Invoking the Pacific's Biketawa Declaration

Economics

Pacific Forum responds to current global fuel and energy challenges

April 18, 2026

PNG's K1 billion Provincial and District Services Improvement Programme

Economics

PNG rural agency condemns ‘ghost projects’ in K1 billion delivery cash...

January 29, 2023

Economics

Pacific ‘hub’ Fiji keen to join NZ-Australia travel bubble

May 12, 2020

Solar panels on the rooftop of the Greenpeace Aotearoa office

Economics

Greenpeace backs Greens’ ‘solar homes’ policy, but warns over NZ post-election...

August 13, 2023

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

The Pacific Islands Forum's "Troika-Plus" leaders (right) hold a talanoa session with New Caledonia President Louis Mapou

Economics

Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia

October 31, 2024

"We are all learning lessons about the FijiFirst party (FFP)."

Economics

Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still...

June 17, 2023

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

Economics

NZ’s prime minister Luxon in Niue: ‘This is the Pacific family’

June 5, 2024

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

Economics

Reconciling New Caledonia: A vote to clear the air on independence?

July 29, 2018

Economics

#COP21: The Paris climate agreement: The real work starts now

December 14, 2015

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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

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NZ's Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Democracy

Chlöe Swarbrick kicked out of House after challenging Speaker’s ‘double standards’

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other...

These "Legally censored - Redacted" lines now replace headlines over two Daily Blog editorials published prior to today's Auckland District Court hearing

Democracy

Gagged NZ editor’s ‘free speech’ case adjourned as judge warns Daily...

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

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Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

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Australia's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal

Analysis

The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for

Producer Victor Mambor of the documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in Our Time accepts the award on behalf of the production team

Asia Report

Pesta Babi documentary wins both Udin and Tasrif awards for ‘injustice’...

An Iranian naval speedboat patrolling the Strait of Hormuz

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The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other...

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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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Australia's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal

Analysis

The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for

Producer Victor Mambor of the documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in Our Time accepts the award on behalf of the production team

Asia Report

Pesta Babi documentary wins both Udin and Tasrif awards for ‘injustice’...

The Free Palestine Party

Asia Report

Free Palestine Party becomes latest political party in Aotearoa

An Iranian naval speedboat patrolling the Strait of Hormuz

Asia Report

The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding