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Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler

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Roger Fowler, a legend of the Aotearoa solidarity movement, dies at 77

February 22, 2026

Journalists and activists Jeremy Rose and David Robie in conversation at the Aro Valley Peace Talks

Music

Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday

An artist's impression of Quay Park stadium - Te Tōangaroa

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‘Turn it into a retirement village’: Inside the war of words over Eden Park

Te Ao journalist, lawyer, advocate and musician Moana Maniapoto

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Moana Maniapoto on the sound of the 80s to world-class journalism

Best Pacific Female Artist and Best Pacific Language award winner Olivia Foa'i

Music

Melodownz, Sam V, Olivia Foa’i among big winners at Pacific Music Awards

Husband and wife duo Lauren and Matt Barus perform under the stage name Terrible Sons

Music

First-ever recipients of ‘outstanding’ Asian music funding unveiled

July 3, 2023

PNG musician Jason Suisui aka Jayrex

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Jayrex’s lawyers threaten lawsuit if PNG music ban isn’t lifted

Pacific Media Watch -

June 23, 2023

Pacific reggae singer Jayrex from PNG

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PNG’s censorship office bans Jayrex songs over partner abuse allegations

June 21, 2023

Girmitiyas - Indentured labourers - in Fiji

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New NZ theatre production highlights Fiji Girmityas’ struggles

June 11, 2023

Papuan Student Association Oceania musicians

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‘Forgotten’ Melanesians host their first cultural festival in Aotearoa

October 23, 2022

Pacific Music Awards 2022

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Back on stage – Pacific Music Awards gig banishes covid blues

August 5, 2022

Biak massacre testimonies

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Activists call for peaceful remembering of 1998 Biak massacre in West...

July 6, 2021

Malia Vaurasi

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Musicians across Pacific stage virtual Wan Musik Wan Sing for West...

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December 1, 2020

Kris Douw

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Indonesian security forces attack Papuan musician, say activists

Pacific Media Watch -

November 23, 2020

Papuan rapper Epo D'Fenomeno

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Sing the pandemic away – Papuan rapper, police chief join in...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 23, 2020

Music

Obituary: Andy Ayamiseba – long road home to an ‘independent’ West...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 26, 2020

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NZ’s classical music station not safe yet – innovation and leadership...

Pacific Media Centre -

February 17, 2020

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The genocide next door – West Papuan band spreading message of...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 8, 2019

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Samoan opera singer sings praises for benefit of teenager hopefuls

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May 23, 2018

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A tale of colonisation – deep music connections for Māori, Caribbean

April 10, 2018

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‘Girl Power’ wows Port Moresby with new anti-violence video ‘No More’

April 7, 2018

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‘Play for our people’ call by Southern Highlands musicians after PNG...

March 3, 2018

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Sounds of Caribbean planned for Auckland’s first steelband festival

February 16, 2018

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

BEARING WITNESS

"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

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

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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

Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Asia Report

Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

The first satellite image of the bombing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran on the opening day of the surprise and illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran

Analysis

Neither preemptive nor legal, US-Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up...

A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions

Asia Report

After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos...

New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie

Cook Islands

‘I know she’d be really proud’ – NZ’s first Pasifika heritage...

EDITOR'S PICKS

“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF

Analysis

War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid...

Mourners dig graves for the funeral of 170 children killed in a US-Israeli strike on a primary school

Analysis

This illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran is also an assault on...

Community members in Iowa protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran

Editor's Picks

New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa

A mourner holds up a picture of one of the victims of the US-Israeli attack on Iran at Minab

Asia Report

Alternative Jewish Voices: Stop this Iran catastrophe!

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

“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF

Analysis

War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid...

An oil tanker docked at the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand

Analysis

US-Israel’s war on Iran – mostly negative scenarios for the Pacific

Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands

Asia Report

Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum...

Iranians mourning the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Analysis

Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster