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Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust

Innovation

Academics call for divestment from NZ pensions fund implicated in Gaza

February 3, 2026

Pacific shipping corridors

Innovation

China’s Shandong Province expands its climate footprint to the Pacific

Tahiti's new President Moetai Brotherson

Innovation

Brotherson ushers in bold new era of Tavini governance for Mā’ohi Nui

New research argues the priority now should be addressing the real driver of multiple ecological crises

Innovation

Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work – changing basic human behaviours must come first

Ousted Te Whatu Ora Health NZ chair Rob Campbell

Innovation

Health NZ chair fired over ‘political’ post, but says govt ‘overreacted’

Cousins Kapieri Samisoni and Tristan Petueli embrace their Rotuman culture through dance

Innovation

NZ celebrates Rotuman as part of Pacific Language Week series

May 14, 2025

Tuvalu from the air

Innovation

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

January 29, 2024

Defiant Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (left) and humbled US President Donald Trump

Innovation

Iran war almost over . . . and the end...

May 7, 2026

Innovation

Iran trolls Trump with AI-generated LEGO video – now ‘banned’

Pacific Media Watch -

April 15, 2026

The “sponge city” concept is gaining traction as a way to mitigate extreme weather

Innovation

Creating ‘sponge cities’ to cope with more rainfall needn’t cost billions...

August 19, 2023

Pacific flags . . . advancing advance discussions on the the Blue Pacific

Innovation

Pacific Islands Forum leaders advance discussions on regional reforms

March 28, 2025

Innovation

France plans to pave 1000 km of roads with solar panels

February 22, 2016

Winners of the Goldman Environmental Award winners, 2026

Innovation

Bougainville advocate among all-women lineup winning Goldman Environmental prize

April 25, 2026

The Great Council of Chiefs review team holds a public consultation

Innovation

Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs reinstates native land lease policy

May 25, 2023

Innovation

Digital broadcasting switchover starts for Pacific nations

Pacific Media Centre -

September 26, 2015

Under the old regime, press barons, from William Randolph Hearst to Rupert Murdoch, at least pretended they were committed to truth-telling journalism

Innovation

Murdoch to Musk: how global media power has shifted from the...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 20, 2024

Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua

Innovation

Pesta Babi – ‘Pig Feast’ . . . a vivid new...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 1, 2026

The new sign for Kaipātiki Hot Springs

Innovation

Popular Auckland hot springs gets name change to Kaipātiki

January 10, 2026

Innovation

Low-cost solar batteries key to cheap electricity for Polynesian countries

Sri Krishnamurthi -

November 9, 2018

Dark Times Academy

Innovation

US backing for Pacific disinformation media course casualty of Trump aid...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 20, 2025

President Donald Trump

Innovation

Friend or foe? How Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire

January 22, 2025

Adelaide Writers' Week Festival Board members who resigned

Innovation

Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

January 13, 2026

Celebrating International Women's Day in Papua New Guinea today with an all-women flight crew to Cairns

Innovation

All female Air Niugini crew fly out to Cairns on International...

March 8, 2024

Celebrating the launch of USP's SCORI on 22May23

Innovation

Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea...

May 29, 2023

John Miller's photograph of the 1975 Land March held up in the same location at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke Wellington.

Innovation

Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 24, 2024

NZ police OSINT unit

Innovation

NZ police had no dedicated team to scan internet before mosque...

April 27, 2021

Nuclear refugees from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands being evacuated on board the Rainbow Warrior to Mejatto island in May 1985

Innovation

Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show

Pacific Media Watch -

August 21, 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

Innovation

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

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

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

Papua's Tom Beanal

Analysis

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Innovation

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

A free speech forum at Lingkaran Abepura in Jayapura last Monday

Asia Report

Papuan women ‘living in fear’ condemn military violence

About 200 protesters in the Vallée-du-Tir yesterday marked the second anniversary of the pro-independence protests that erupted into riots in Nouméa

Analysis

Two years after New Caledonia’s violent uprising, tensions remain high

EDITOR'S PICKS

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Innovation

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Analysis

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds

Papua's Tom Beanal

Analysis

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

MOST COMMENTS

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

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Innovation

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Analysis

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds

Papua's Tom Beanal

Analysis

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’