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

Music

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

January 28, 2025

Te Ao journalist, lawyer, advocate and musician Moana Maniapoto

Music

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

PNG musician Jason Suisui aka Jayrex

Music

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

Pacific reggae singer Jayrex from PNG

Music

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

June 21, 2023

Girmitiyas - Indentured labourers - in Fiji

Music

New NZ theatre production highlights Fiji Girmityas’ struggles

June 11, 2023

Papuan Student Association Oceania musicians

Music

‘Forgotten’ Melanesians host their first cultural festival in Aotearoa

October 23, 2022

Pacific Music Awards 2022

Music

Back on stage – Pacific Music Awards gig banishes covid blues

August 5, 2022

Biak massacre testimonies

Music

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

July 6, 2021

Malia Vaurasi

Music

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

Pacific Media Centre -

December 1, 2020

Kris Douw

Music

Indonesian security forces attack Papuan musician, say activists

Pacific Media Watch -

November 23, 2020

Papuan rapper Epo D'Fenomeno

Music

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

Music

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

Pacific Media Centre -

February 17, 2020

Music

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

Pacific Media Watch -

November 8, 2019

Music

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

April 10, 2018

Music

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

April 7, 2018

Music

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

March 3, 2018

Music

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

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

Former Palestinian diplomat Ali Kazak

Asia Report

Former Canberra diplomat Ali Kuzak dies on the way to Palestine

A protest by more than 2000 people in Auckland on Saturday condemned the silence of the New Zealand government

Asia Report

Seven European nations jointly call for urgent action over Israel’s starvation...

About 600,000 people took part in Saturday's protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza in London on Saturday on 18 May 2025

Asia Report

Open letter from John Cusack: ‘The children of Gaza need your...

A training session for the UN Pacific peacekeepers cohort

Australia

Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region

EDITOR'S PICKS

The 1 May 2025 report by Talamua Online that led to the criminal libel case

Civil Society

Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism

It has been 40 years since the Rongelap people had to leave their homes due to nuclear fallout in May 1985

Civil Society

40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against...

If the West so wished, it could be putting more economic pressure on Israel

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing

The people of Gaza are desperate. No food has entered Gaza for more than 76 days

Analysis

Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan

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

Talamua Online editor Lagi Keresoma

Global

Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge

Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) Mobile Yonif 1 Marine Task Force for Indonesian-PNG Border Security soldiers

Asia Report

Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans

New Zealand is hurtling towards a sharply divided country of extreme wealth and extreme poverty

Analysis

Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t

A growing list of countries -- including New Zealand and Australia -- have denounced Israel's weaponising of aid

Asia Report

Australia’s Wong condemns ‘abhorrent, outrageous’ Israeli comments over blocked aid