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NZ Budget 2022

Economics

NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system

May 19, 2022

National Federation Party leader Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

Fiji’s Biman Prasad calls out ‘dire straits’ Bainimarama government

New Caledonia's President Louis Mapou

Economics

French ‘nickel pact’ to bail out New Caledonia’s industry delayed

James Marape

Economics

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

Economics

Climate change hits low-lying islands in Bougainville

Economics

NZ’s ‘corruption free’ perception ranking drops second year in row

February 1, 2016

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

Economics

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

January 25, 2023

Flags from most of the Micronesian islands participating in the regional summit this week fly outside the International Conference Center

Economics

Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step...

July 1, 2025

Economics

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

March 7, 2018

Papuan students, with their body and face painted with the colours of the banned Morning Star flag

Economics

Indonesia’s new plans for Papua can’t hide its decades of failures

June 22, 2022

Just over half of New Zealanders surveyed - including Pacific Islanders - reported they were financially stressed

Economics

More than half of New Zealanders struggling financially, says survey

August 15, 2023

The new New Zealand investment bill is convoluted and would significantly reduce effective scrutiny of foreign investments

Economics

Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had...

July 22, 2025

Economics

Chinese banks provide 40 percent of Fiji’s foreign loans

May 24, 2017

May Day rally in Jakarta 2022

Economics

Indonesia’s Labour Party calls for ‘fair elections’ on time at May...

May 2, 2022

Huge container ships carrying import and export marine cargo loads

Economics

UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’

July 8, 2023

Chinese sulky silence with Pacific media

Economics

How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom

July 14, 2022

Professor Kishore Mahbubani

Economics

Drop Western ‘mental maps’ for Asian new order, says Mahbubani

August 27, 2020

Economics

Climate change costs at-risk countries $525 billion in damage, says report

June 13, 2022

Economics

Climate change hits low-lying islands in Bougainville

November 10, 2016

Iran’s navy successfully launched the Sayyad-3G naval air defence missile

Economics

How a US-Israeli attack on Iran could crash UK, German, NZ...

February 23, 2026

NZ's parliamentary Beehive

Economics

Hipkins warns NZ voters against ‘turning the clock back’ on reforms

September 1, 2023

The New Caledonia Congress in session in November 2024

Economics

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

January 2, 2025

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

Economics

Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

September 17, 2024

PNG's Trade Minister Richard Maru

Economics

PNG’s trade minister pledges China, Indon free trade deals are ‘in...

October 18, 2023

Fresh fish at a wet market

Economics

How Fukushima wastewater into Pacific will disrupt seafood trade

April 15, 2023

China flag

Economics

China enters 2021 a stronger, more influential power — and Australia...

January 4, 2021

Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau

Economics

MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau

August 24, 2023

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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

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...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

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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

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa's Neil Scott and protesters marching in the Stop Wars Aotearoa rally

Asia Report

Protesters rally across Aotearoa in condemnation of Israel, US ‘warmongering’ and...

Flooding near Whitianga cuts off a state highway.

Climate

Cyclone Vaianu: Damaging winds, heavy rain hit NZ’s North Island

So now this modern American Nero struggles to convince us that he "won"

Analysis

How Trump’s White House demands as prerequisites for stopping bombings bit...

Asia Report

Eugene Doyle: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Nordstream’ pipeline is waiting to be hit

EDITOR'S PICKS

Flooding near Whitianga cuts off a state highway.

Climate

Cyclone Vaianu: Damaging winds, heavy rain hit NZ’s North Island

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa's Neil Scott and protesters marching in the Stop Wars Aotearoa rally

Asia Report

Protesters rally across Aotearoa in condemnation of Israel, US ‘warmongering’ and...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s press conference on the first day of the Iran ceasefire on 8 April 2026

Analysis

Ending Israel’s war on peace – Iran’s 10-point proposal is serious

Cyclone Vaianu is forecast to reach NZ by Saturday

Climate

Cyclone Vaianu: First impacts could be felt Saturday amid severe NZ...

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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

Breakaway A Fano Tia members, led by Tematai Le Gayic, appear dressed in white

Decolonisation

French Polynesia’s legislature shows new shape, more divisions

Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei

Analysis

What I would do if I was Mojtaba Khamenei – a...

"War is stupid" . . . a message from three generations of New Zealand peace protesters

Analysis

Why Vance couldn’t stop the Trump train wreck – an Iranian...

Cyclone Maila damage in Papua New Guinea

Climate

Ten dead in Bougainville amid Cyclone Maila aftermath