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Pacific Islands climate justice protesters among those demonstrating at The Hague

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Deep freeze: Pacific ‘alarm’ as Trump leaves US diplomats with little to offer

January 29, 2025

Rainbow Warrior host Niamh O'Flynn talks to author David Robie in the ship's mess as part of the virtual tour

Innovation

Author David Robie joins Greenpeace virtual tour of Rainbow Warrior

From the very start of his papacy, Pope Francis seemed determined to do things differently

Innovation

Pope Francis has died, aged 88. These were his greatest reforms – and controversies

Rocky Roe on Lihir Island, New Ireland, in 2013

Innovation

Through the lens of time: A tribute to ‘Rocky’ Roe’s PNG photography

Azerbaijian’s National Assembly Chair Sahiba Gafarova (left) and pro-independence New Caledonia Congress member Omayra Naisseline

Innovation

Controversial Azerbaijan deal sparks fresh row in New Caledonia

A common view persists that the English and Māori versions of the Treaty are fundamentally at odds

Innovation

Waitangi Day 2024: 5 myths and misconceptions that confuse NZ’s 1840...

February 3, 2024

World Cup BDS graphic

Innovation

Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’...

June 12, 2026

Mango dawn

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Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to...

September 13, 2021

Minister for Pacific Peoples Barbara Edmonds

Innovation

Radio station develops app to spread Gagana Samoa to the world

Pacific Media Watch -

July 6, 2023

A PNG soldier guarding Bougainville's Panguna mine in 1989

Innovation

Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave...

June 7, 2025

Greens co-leader Marama Davidson

Innovation

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

September 26, 2023

It is important politically and economically for New Zealand to have trading relations with both G7 and developing countries

Innovation

Ian Powell: Context of the ‘New Washington Consensus’ and China ‘threat’...

August 29, 2023

Tagaloa Cooper (left) and Lisa Tumahai

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‘Oceania voices’ – Indigenous climate adaptation network launches in Ōtautahi

October 24, 2025

The Oosterman greenway proposal property

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Simon Oosterman Beckers: After the Great Flood – a greenway offer...

February 7, 2023

Australia's new Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Innovation

‘We’re listening and we’ll do better’, new minister Wong tells Pacific

May 24, 2022

The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral

Innovation

How Tehran turned Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral into a media event

Pacific Media Watch -

July 15, 2026

The University of the South Pacific's Laucala campus in Fiji

Innovation

Fiji plans to ‘restore confidence’ in USP partnership, says Professor Prasad

January 3, 2023

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

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Netanyahu stresses the need for more propaganda as Israel’s Hasbara budget...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 12, 2026

"Whakaako Kia Whakaora - Educate to Liberate" - Polynesian Panthers

Innovation

Latest Island Studies journal features social justice activism and advocacy

June 1, 2023

RNZ’s diminishing linear radio audience has to be understood in context

Innovation

A ‘scathing’ report on RNZ’s performance obscures the good news –...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 27, 2025

The Handala crew in emergency positions as the Israeli military stormed the Gaza-bound aid ship

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Gaza condemns Israeli ‘piracy’ over storming of Handala aid ship

July 27, 2025

Innovation

Sky Pacific clearing cyclone backlog, planning new office

May 1, 2016

Innovation

Images: Celebration over launch of NZ’s Pacific research institute

March 23, 2016

Professor David Robie

Innovation

Outcry over signs of upheaval at Pacific Media Centre

March 16, 2021

Innovation

Police shut down Bali people’s global conference against World Bank

October 12, 2018

Jubi Papua webinar

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Webinar panel on West Papua sharply divided over media ‘black hole’

Pacific Media Watch -

July 3, 2020

Let's Talanoa series

Innovation

129 new covid cases in NZ community – Pacific talanoa series...

October 22, 2021

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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

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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

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Innovation

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

Innovation

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

Innovation

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

The Akaroa Mail editor and owner Michael de Hamel, 41 years at the helm

Business

NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

Innovation

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel

Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

Business

Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

Climate

The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

Commentary

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...

Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

Business

Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton...

An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed

Asia Report

Human Rights Watch report says Indonesia is silencing environmental activists in...

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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

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Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

Climate

The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

Commentary

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...

Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

Business

Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton...

An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed

Asia Report

Human Rights Watch report says Indonesia is silencing environmental activists in...