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Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad

Opinion

Dark political clouds forming in Fiji – expect more lightning strikes after two DPMs charged

October 28, 2025

Opinion

Mereoni Chung: Through social media, Fiji’s youth challenge the political elite

Draft PNG National Media Development Policy "flies in the face of global norms for self-regulation"

Opinion

PNG draft media development policy ‘contemptuous’ of public interest

PNG Jackson Kiakari

Opinion

Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise go wrong?

Indiscriminate Israeli bombardment of civilian districts in Gaza where dozens of families were wiped out

Opinion

Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in Gaza?

Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier

Opinion

Gavin Ellis: NZ government media teams that breach the law

Pacific Media Watch -

October 6, 2022

Cans collecting

Opinion

Laurens Ikinia: Trash cans and study, a short story of Papuan...

February 12, 2021

Students protest at the University of the Philippines Manila

Opinion

Philippines forgets history and sells its soul for another Marcos

May 10, 2022

Opinion

Sue Bradford: Introducing the ESRA ‘think tank’ vision

September 4, 2016

Medical pills PNG

Opinion

Challenging covid-19 – two critics of PNG’s K10m drug development plan

November 1, 2020

NZ media narrative on covid

Opinion

Gordon Campbell: Fostering the Kiwi culture of covid complaint media

January 3, 2022

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa takes a selfie

Opinion

Nobel Peace laureates slam ‘Damocles’ sword’ threat to press freedom

Pacific Media Watch -

December 10, 2021

Opinion

Fiji Report: A day on the job at the Wansolwara newspaper

September 1, 2015

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine nominates cabinet ministers

Opinion

Pacific predictions: Elections, security and regionalism top 2024 agenda

January 25, 2024

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on a hospital visit in January

Opinion

NZ deserves far more respect for keeping covid deaths so low

February 4, 2022

An Australian soldier on patrol in Honiara

Opinion

Solomon Islands: China mouthpiece blames Australia for ‘fomenting riots’

November 29, 2021

Rappler fights on

Opinion

Stand with Rappler, defend press freedom in Philippines

Pacific Media Watch -

June 30, 2022

Missionary pilot Anton Lutz

Opinion

Break this cycle of sorcery-related violence in Papua New Guinea

August 3, 2022

Port Moresby Airport

Opinion

Scott Waide: Tangfu! Just another PX flight cancellation in Port Moresby

January 29, 2021

West Papua protest

Opinion

West Papua riots: Why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken...

August 22, 2019

Desecration of Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral by baton-wielding armed Israeli police

Opinion

Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 17, 2022

New Zealand protesters carry symbolic "bodies" of Palestinian journalists slaughtered by the Israeli military

Opinion

Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?

August 24, 2025

Willie Jackson, former broadcaster and Labour's Broadcasting and Media Minister in the current government

Opinion

NZ election 2023: How a better funding model can help media...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 3, 2023

A Wellington protest against Putin

Opinion

How will NZ’s law targeting sanctions against Russia work – and...

March 9, 2022

Morning Star flags of West Papuan independence on display at MACFEST2023

Opinion

Yamin Kogoya: ‘Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future’ – culture and...

July 24, 2023

Wait Here

Opinion

With covid-19 mutating and surging, NZ urgently needs to tighten border...

January 14, 2021

Wall graffiti chalked up by anti-mandates protesters

Opinion

Political parties condemn Parliament protesters, praise police actions

March 3, 2022

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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

Opinion

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

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

Bearing Witness

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

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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

American Samoa

Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena

Analysis

Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?

For more than two years, free movement in and out of Gaza has been prohibited

Asia Report

Israeli Supreme Court hearing on press access to Gaza looms –...

Toasting the Jewish New Year with IDF lone soldiers

Asia Report

United Israel Appeal – Australian charity channels tax free donations direct...

EDITOR'S PICKS

UpScrolled . . . the Palestinian-Australian "free speech" platform

Asia Report

UpScrolled – the pro-Palestine platform shaking up social media

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Nadi, Fiji

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Pacific at risky crossroads – Gaza vs the urgent drug crisis...

Researcher Dr Sanimere Boladuadua

Culture

Pacific women scholars call for ‘radical shift’ in global health systems

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena

Analysis

Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?

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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Opinion

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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

UpScrolled . . . the Palestinian-Australian "free speech" platform

Asia Report

UpScrolled – the pro-Palestine platform shaking up social media

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Nadi, Fiji

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Pacific at risky crossroads – Gaza vs the urgent drug crisis...

Asia Report

The IDF in West Bank, the US in Afghanistan, or ICE?...

Invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog (inset)

Asia Report

Australia’s invitation to Herzog sparks protest plans over Gaza genocide