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NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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US travel ban on Pacific 3 – countries have right to decide over borders, Peters says

June 17, 2025

Social workers fear the number of cases of slavery in Aotearoa New Zealand may be the tip of the iceberg

Labour

Pacific children as young as 6 adopted, made to work as house slaves

A Girmit exhibition in Wellington

Labour

Fiji Indians in NZ ‘not giving up’ on Pasifika classification struggle

President Trump and Vice-President Vance’s disgraceful bullying of Zelenskyy in the White House as he struggled in his third language to explain the plight of his nation was as remarkable as it was appalling

Labour

NZ’s refreshingly candid ex-envoy Phil Goff – why I spoke out on Trump

While PNG Prime Minister James Marape is criticising US climate policy

Labour

Marape calls US climate backtracking ‘irresponsible’ in rethink plea to Trump

Labour

Vanuatu to deport illegal workers in labour market crackdown

September 10, 2017

Labour

First report tracking Samoan youth unemployment to help policy

Brandon Ulfsby -

June 28, 2017

Labour

Joey Tau: Can the MSG bloc walk out on the PACER-Plus...

June 13, 2017

Labour

Wrest back PNG from ‘globalised zombies’ and ‘life suckers’, says Juffa

May 31, 2017

Labour

Freeport mine in Papua sacks 840 striking workers following May Day

May 18, 2017

Labour

Mike Treen: ‘Extend the amnesty’ – facing NZ’s ‘inhuman’ migrant plan

May 16, 2017

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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

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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

POPULAR POSTS

Journalist, poet and academic Dr Yousef Aljamal speaking in Auckland

Asia Report

Israeli soldiers ‘ordered’ to fire at Gaza aid seekers – 70...

A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday

Analysis

Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

Activist minister Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua brandishes the petition against the AUKUS military pact at the launch

Decolonisation

Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Rev Mua Strickson-Pua

Since the data breach, the Tongan government has said "a small amount" of information from the attack was published online. This included confidential information,

Crime

Tonga cybersecurity attack wake-up call for Pacific, warns expert

EDITOR'S PICKS

Rabaul's Archbishop Rochus Tatamai

Culture

Catholic Church warns against PNG declaring itself a ‘Christian country’

Investigative journalist Richard Baker's SBS "Fallout" podcast on the Rainbow Warrior and the Norfolk Island connection

Australia

Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast

The Bradbury Group's presenter Martyn Bradbury talks Gaza to Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal

Asia Report

The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report...

Starved for Peace - Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

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

Investigative journalist Richard Baker's SBS "Fallout" podcast on the Rainbow Warrior and the Norfolk Island connection

Australia

Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast

Since the data breach, the Tongan government has said "a small amount" of information from the attack was published online. This included confidential information,

Crime

Tonga cybersecurity attack wake-up call for Pacific, warns expert

Activist minister Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua brandishes the petition against the AUKUS military pact at the launch

Decolonisation

Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Rev Mua Strickson-Pua

The Bradbury Group's presenter Martyn Bradbury talks Gaza to Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal

Asia Report

The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report...