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Celebrating the launch of USP's SCORI on 22May23

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

May 29, 2023

More than 200,000 voters are going to the polling booths for the first time in NZ

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First-time Asian voters embrace New Zealand’s democratic process

USP student journalist Riya Bhagwan

Innovation

USP student journalists win Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution reports

New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters with Samoan Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa

Innovation

Pacific wants open discussion on AUKUS to keep region ‘nuclear free’

Pasifika broadcasters

Innovation

‘Let’s tell our own stories’ – Pacific broadcasters seek sovereignty

Innovation

Pacific’s brightest minds gather for Oceans and Islands research summit

November 29, 2018

Innovation

The wanted man, the CIA, the Russians and a Tongan king’s...

March 29, 2019

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

Israel destroying Gaza and now Jenin

Innovation

Mars, watch out — President Trump’s coming for you too

January 24, 2025

Vietnam today is united and free and millions of ordinary people have achieved security, health, education and prosperity

Innovation

50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to...

April 30, 2025

Lisa Taouma

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‘This is for you’ – 24 Pasifika New Year’s honours recipients...

December 31, 2022

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...

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September 20, 2024

FAA-licensed Rocket Lab, a spaceport at Mahia Pensinsula

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Collins and Rocket Lab challenged over satellites linked to Israeli war...

November 14, 2024

Political prisoner Marwan Barghouti

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Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and...

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October 21, 2025

Then French prime minister Lionel Jospin (centre) shakes hands

Innovation

Tributes pour in for Lionel Jospin, ‘father’ of the Nouméa Accord

March 25, 2026

Pillar one of AUKUS involves the delivery of nuclear submarines

Innovation

Have New Zealanders really been ‘misled’ about AUKUS, or is involvement...

April 21, 2024

Minister for Pacific Peoples Barbara Edmonds

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Radio station develops app to spread Gagana Samoa to the world

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July 6, 2023

New Zealand's new energy fund initiative underpins the government’s aspirational goal of having 100 percent of electricity generated by renewable sources by 2035

Innovation

10 smart ways NZ can be strategic about addressing climate change...

August 11, 2023

Former Vanuatu Daily Post media director Dan McGarry

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Former Vanuatu Daily Post media director Dan McGarry leaves legacy

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March 26, 2026

Miss Pacific Islands 2025, Litara Ieremia-Allan (left)

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‘Damage has been done’ – Miss Pacific pageant statement too late,...

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February 14, 2025

A media headline last October when US President Donald Trump missed out on his coveted Nobel Peace Prize

Innovation

Nobel Peace Prize ‘gift’ to Trump slammed as ‘meaningless, pathetic ...

January 19, 2026

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

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Claims of ‘issues, concerns and breaches’ emerge at USP

May 31, 2023

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

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

January 3, 2023

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong

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As Wong makes her mark in the Pacific, the Albanese government...

June 1, 2022

The Chinese-funded Edevu Hydropower Station

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K650m PNG hydropower project opens after 15 years – end to...

April 24, 2023

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum

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Jeremy Rose: Mexico – the revolution isn’t being televised

January 21, 2026

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

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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

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

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Holy Shit. Cartoon by Mr Fish

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Chris Hedges: The political dysfunction of Trump as God

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

Winners of the Goldman Environmental Award winners, 2026

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Bougainville advocate among all-women lineup winning Goldman Environmental prize

Indonesian military forces conduct operations in Intan Jaya, Papua province

Asia Report

Stop selling arms to Indonesia, West Papuans urge Netherlands

EDITOR'S PICKS

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

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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 security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

Indonesian police launch a brutal crackdown against Papuan protesters

Asia Report

Wenda calls on Indonesia to halt crackdown on peaceful Papua protests

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel