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Voters looking for their names as Papua New Guinea went to the polls

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Papua New Guinea goes to the polls amid controversy over missing names

July 5, 2022

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More than 100 PNG border soldiers from Papua frontier for polls

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Challenge Tongan king’s royal dissolution in court, says adviser

Advance director Sandra Bourke (left) and Roslyn Mendelle

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Australia ‘Islamic Caliphate’? Dark money and the 11th hour election propaganda blitzkrieg

Polling officials check details from two ballot boxes arriving in Tari

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Disgruntled PNG voters destroy ballot boxes, set fire to voting papers

The Kiribati Parliament House

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What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?

August 5, 2024

Today's front page banner headline in the PNG Post-Courier

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Post-Courier: The incompetency of PNG’s Electoral Commission must stop

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July 7, 2022

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa

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Samoa political update: Fiame prevails in leadership crisis

January 22, 2025

Greens co-leader Marama Davidson

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NZ election 2023: Green Party pledges to double Best Start payment

September 26, 2023

Nobel Peace laureate Maria Ressa

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Media watchdogs slam 16 new legal complaints against Ressa, Rappler

April 4, 2022

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape

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PNG’s Marape remains PM after no confidence vote against him fails

September 12, 2024

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Enga vote deferred amid new PNG election disruptions

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July 5, 2017

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Fretilin denounces ‘acts of terror, intimidation’ on Timor election eve

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July 22, 2017

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UPNG students make ballot voice heard in spite of challenge over...

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July 17, 2017

The K1.3 million stashed in a suitcase on a plane from Port Moresby bound for Komo

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Six charged with money laundering over K1.3 million in suitcase as...

July 6, 2022

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Kanaks pledge third New Caledonia independence referendum

October 9, 2020

US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former US President Donald Trump

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How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations

November 4, 2024

Lawyer Richard Naidu outside the High Court in Suva

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Wadan Narsey: Shameful silences over another unfolding tragedy in Fiji

October 18, 2022

Opposition NFP Leader Professor Biman Prasad speaking in Fiji Parliament

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‘My way or highway’ bill a product of Fiji dictatorship, says...

September 23, 2021

Benny Wenda

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West Papuans call for mass boycott of Indonesian elections

April 12, 2019

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

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Prime Minister Manele holds firm as opposition claims majority in Solomon...

March 23, 2026

Ambassador Zeng Fanhua and Sir Julius Chan

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PNG’s longest serving politician Governor Chan hits ground running

August 16, 2022

Counting at the Fijian Elections Office

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Fiji elections: Bainimarama on track to win in spite of poll’s...

December 15, 2022

The Fiji general election 2022

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Fiji elections: End 16 years of nation’s ‘bullying, corrupt’ government, pleads...

December 18, 2022

Noumea Accord signatory Victor Tutugoro about the 2021 Kanak referendum boycott

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‘Decolonisation must continue’, says Kanak independence campaigner

May 10, 2023

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

July 6, 2025

Newly elected Tongan noble Lord Ma'afu

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Tonga election: Two new lords as 9 noble seats decided

November 20, 2025

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

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

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

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COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

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Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

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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

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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

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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

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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

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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"

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Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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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

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

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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

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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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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