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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

#COP21: ‘Counting the Cost’ – constructive conference or a waste of time?

NZ's major print media and radio company NZME

Economics

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

Economics

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

Pacific verdict on COP29

Economics

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

Economics

Labour and National leaders contest debate ‘draw’ but sharply different

September 22, 2020

Professor Biman Prasad (left) and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in December 2022

Economics

‘Political chaos’ – Fiji PM Rabuka confirms Biman Prasad’s resignation

October 29, 2025

Economics

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

July 29, 2018

Economics

Indonesia prone to cyber attacks up to the year 2025, says...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 30, 2018

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird . . . similar risks to last year in this year's budget with overly optimistic revenue forecasts

Economics

East Sepik Governor Bird slams Marape’s ‘risky’ 2026 Budget overspend

November 27, 2025

Fiji's Fiscal Review Committee chair Richard Naidu

Economics

Fiji’s reduced VAT ‘a failed gamble’ – a vision now needed,...

April 27, 2023

Ponsonby Post Office in Three Lamps

Economics

Ponsonby community up in arms over impending post office closure

June 7, 2025

NZ Budget 2022

Economics

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

May 19, 2022

Senior ministers from Australia and Vanuatu initialled the Nakamal Agreement at the top of Mount Yasur. (ABC News: Lillyrose Welwel) Photo: ABC News / Lillyrose Welwel

Economics

New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst

August 18, 2025

Tuvalu delegates Monise Laafai and Demi Afasene

Economics

Nations join ranks to delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator

August 2, 2024

US President Trump wrote in his social media post

Economics

‘Straight-up piracy and extortion’: Trump says he will control money from...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 8, 2026

Fiji's first coup leader and former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka with RNZ

Economics

Sitiveni Rabuka takes Fiji campaign trail to Aotearoa New Zealand

June 26, 2022

NZ's Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins

Economics

NZ election 2023: Better ways than taxation to bring down living...

September 12, 2023

Economics

Officials fail to resolve issues with PNG LNG landowners, gas flow...

KINJAP Peter S. -

August 14, 2016

Elite 1 percenters

Economics

We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts...

January 27, 2021

Economics

COP21: Indonesian forest fires hot issue for global climate summit

December 9, 2015

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

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson

Economics

French Polynesia urges Pacific to unite amid rising global tensions

March 11, 2026

Previous tariff announcements by the Trump administration dropped sand into the cogs of international trade

Economics

New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs –...

April 3, 2025

Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

Biman Prasad: Is our Fiji democracy really working?

February 2, 2016

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...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 5, 2023

A home destroyed in tribal fighting in PNG's Highlands

Economics

NZ pulls plug on $6.7m power project in Papua New Guinea...

February 2, 2026

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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

"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

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

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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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Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

Asia Report

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...

The Heritage Foundation

China

Trump-aligned think tank proposes ‘Pacific Charter’, greater US involvement in the...

The mainstream media is doing what it always does in wartime: manufacturing consent, sanitizing atrocities and platforming war criminals

Analysis

The reporting on Iran and Gaza the US-Israel war machine can’t...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace

Analysis

West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid

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Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)

Asia Report

‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

US President Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House

Analysis

Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only...

PSNA co-chair John Minto

Asia Report

Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...

From Jabotinsky to Netanyahu, Israeli leaders built a doctrine of psychological dominance

Analysis

Ramzy Baroud: Israel’s greatest weapon was fear – and it’s now...

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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

Far-right Israelis and relatives of the soldiers gather in front of a military court building and stage a protest

Asia Report

Charges dropped against 5 soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee...

Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)

Asia Report

‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

US President Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House

Analysis

Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only...

PSNA co-chair John Minto

Asia Report

Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...