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Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right

Fisheries

Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact

January 6, 2026

Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

Fisheries

Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

Tuvalu from the air

Fisheries

World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact

Fisheries

Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

Fisheries

‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage compensation

An Odysseus 6K remotely operated vehicle

Fisheries

Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit

July 30, 2024

Greenpeace activists, along with representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui, disrupted the annual general meeting of Manuka Resources

Fisheries

Norway halts seabed mining, putting more pressure on NZ to do...

December 3, 2024

New Zealand's planned fisheries laws changes "spell disaster for the already struggling ocean around us"

Fisheries

Greenpeace condemns NZ’s ‘dodgy reforms’ plan weakening ocean protection

August 7, 2025

The Gambier Islands

Fisheries

French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

June 11, 2025

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

Fisheries

Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

August 23, 2023

Domestic airline Air Calédonie’s ATR 72-600 to fly biweekly to Port Vila from October 2024

Fisheries

New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets

September 11, 2024

Global action to protect oceans from climate change

Fisheries

Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight...

October 23, 2024

NZ Pacific People's Minister Aupito William Sio

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Aupito to attend Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji instead of Mahuta

July 6, 2022

Fisheries

Ocean at ‘breaking point’: Pacific angst at latest climate report

October 3, 2019

Australian anti-nuclear activist Nat Lowrey (left) joined activists from Japan, Tonga and Fiji in Sapporo, Japan,

Fisheries

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests

June 29, 2023

Fisheries

Rainbow Warrior campaign pushes spotlight on Pacific fish ‘laundering’

September 26, 2015

Fisheries

Pacific-wide study tipped to show ‘real value’ of lost fisheries

March 14, 2016

PNG Jackson Kiakari

Fisheries

Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise...

April 3, 2021

Fisheries

Fisherman kept in ‘abject’ conditions at sea repatriated from Fiji, says...

Rahul Bhattarai -

September 22, 2018

A Te Pāti Māori member's bill to ban deep seabed mining has failed to gain traction

Fisheries

‘This industry will trash our moana’ warning but bid to ban...

May 11, 2023

The World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s MC13 conference

Fisheries

Pacific nations and civil society raise concerns at WTO conference

March 1, 2024

Fisheries

Researchers explore Pacific Ocean’s hidden deep ‘secrets’

April 26, 2016

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Fisheries

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

Fisheries

Pillagers of the Pacific – tuna fishing out of control

Pacific Media Centre -

August 4, 2015

Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop AUT

Fisheries

Pacific research of ‘hard’ social issues profiled in new publication

Michael Andrew -

May 28, 2019

Fisheries

New Pacific report on illegal tuna fishing for frontline officials

March 10, 2016

The Rainbow Warrior III in action against industrial longlining fishing in the South Pacific

Fisheries

Greenpeace activists aboard Rainbow Warrior disrupt Pacific industrial fishing operation

June 12, 2025

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

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

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

Asia Report

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

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...

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

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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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Fiji drug peddler Jone Vakarisi at a court appearance in March 2026

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Fiji military faces questions after death of Jone Vakarisi in custody

Jone Vakarisi . . . asked if he was planning a coup

Crime

‘His life mattered’: Family of man who died in Fiji military...

Dr Rami Khouri

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US, Israel ‘forced into two ceasefires’ as regional balance of power...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Solomon Islands opposition alleges ‘millions’ offered by govt lobbyists to buy...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Indonesian military forces conduct operations in Intan Jaya, Papua province

Asia Report

Stop selling arms to Indonesia, West Papuans urge Netherlands

Holy Shit. Cartoon by Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: The political dysfunction of Trump as God

Assassinated Amal Khalil

Asia Report

Targeted Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil bombed and left to die by...

Pro-Palestnian Professor John Keane (left) and linguist and vice-president of the USyd National Tertiary Education Union, Dr Nick Rieme

Analysis

Antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Sydney Uni pressure to silence Israel, apartheid critics

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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

Indonesian military forces conduct operations in Intan Jaya, Papua province

Asia Report

Stop selling arms to Indonesia, West Papuans urge Netherlands

Holy Shit. Cartoon by Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: The political dysfunction of Trump as God

Assassinated Amal Khalil

Asia Report

Targeted Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil bombed and left to die by...

Pro-Palestnian Professor John Keane (left) and linguist and vice-president of the USyd National Tertiary Education Union, Dr Nick Rieme

Analysis

Antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Sydney Uni pressure to silence Israel, apartheid critics