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The Newcastle coal port 24-hour blockade protest 2023

Economics

Rising Tide climate crisis ‘Protestival’ to go ahead despite court ruling

November 11, 2024

Economics

West Papua: Mining in an occupation forgotten by the world

Protesters at Molodoï, Strasbourg, demanding the release of Kanak indigenous political prisoners being detained in France

Economics

UN experts ‘alarmed’ by Kanaky New Caledonia deaths as Pacific fact-finding mission readies

All smiles FTimes

Economics

Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering

PNG Police Commissioner David Manning

Economics

PNG police chief demands covid-19 emergency funding reports from UN

Economics

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

October 23, 2017

"Housing is a human right"

Economics

John Minto: Where are the journalists to tackle NZ’s prime ministerial...

September 9, 2022

Economics

Contribution by Pacific community more than money, says academic

Rahul Bhattarai -

November 21, 2018

Economics

New Timor treaty will finally set borders to resolve oil, gas...

March 7, 2018

The University of Papua New Guinea

Economics

Mass eviction back on again near UPNG as police give green...

January 28, 2022

Economics

Chinese officials kick out EMTV, foreign media from APEC events –...

November 17, 2018

Three flags in Tahiti

Economics

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

May 9, 2023

PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

Economics

Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections

May 28, 2025

"Bread and bullets" by Mr Fish

Economics

Chris Hedges: Requiem for America on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2026

Union Calédonienne’s President Emmanuel Tjibaou (centre)

Economics

Tjibaou’s party unveils plan for New Caledonia’s future ‘independence’

December 1, 2024

Recent aid arrangements are emblematic of the geopolitical tussle playing out in the Pacific between China and the US and its allies

Economics

Superpower rivalry makes Pacific aid a bargaining chip – vulnerable nations...

December 17, 2024

"Wrong timing", says former Prime Minister Peter O'Neill

Economics

O’Neill warns Marape over ‘improper’ eleventh hour China meeting

June 2, 2022

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Economics

New Zealand and European Union secure historic free trade deal

July 1, 2022

Pacific leaders in Suva

Economics

Pacific leaders talk Micronesia, China and regional stability, security

June 7, 2022

Economics

Driving the future – AUT launches NZ’s first electric bus

March 7, 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

PIF Zoom

Economics

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

August 7, 2021

Fiji Parliament

Economics

Independent committee needed for Fiji MPs’ salaries, says parliament chief

June 3, 2024

Look at this image. The thin white lines are what remains of the world’s most important oil artery - the Strait of Hormuz

Economics

Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar...

July 20, 2026

Economics

Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC

November 20, 2018

PNG Police Commissioner David Manning

Economics

PNG police chief demands covid-19 emergency funding reports from UN

April 11, 2022

Incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare

Economics

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

April 20, 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

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

In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership

Asia Report

NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Asia Report

Manasseh Sogavare unleashes on Solomon Islands government over US agreement

Counsel Assisting before Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’

EDITOR'S PICKS

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

Economics

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

ABC people get replaced by non-ABC people - and sooner rather than later we have Sinophobic news specials

Analysis

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible...

Iranian Kiwi Seyed Derhany

Asia Report

‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned...

A Rising Tide climate protest with a Newcastle Port blockade

Australia

Australia, world leader in arresting climate protesters, drops 130 charges

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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

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

Economics

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

ABC people get replaced by non-ABC people - and sooner rather than later we have Sinophobic news specials

Analysis

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible...

Iranian Kiwi Seyed Derhany

Asia Report

‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned...

A Rising Tide climate protest with a Newcastle Port blockade

Australia

Australia, world leader in arresting climate protesters, drops 130 charges