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Gavin Ellis: Lockdown musings over media lessons from a pandemic

October 7, 2021

Opinion

Time for US, Australia to change policy on West Papua or risk major setback

Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad

Opinion

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

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Opinion

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific

Opinion

Black Sheep: NZ’s story of white supremacy

Papuan student advocate Laurens Ikinia

Opinion

Open letter to Minister Faafoi – an appeal to help 34...

April 13, 2022

Opinion

Dame Susan Devoy: We have a choice on how our media...

May 3, 2016

Need work

Opinion

Bryan Bruce: Unemployment isn’t working – we need universal job creation

August 20, 2020

Opinion

Shailendra Singh: How journalists can walk the Pacific climate change talk

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October 18, 2017

Opinion

Gary Juffa: Why I was not on the PNG electoral roll...

July 10, 2017

The “sponge city” concept is gaining traction as a way to mitigate extreme weather

Opinion

Creating ‘sponge cities’ to cope with more rainfall needn’t cost billions...

August 19, 2023

Opinion

A weeping mum from PNG and her long walk for a...

February 7, 2019

Opinion

Fred Wesley: Our environment message needs to be in every corner...

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June 5, 2017

Opinion

Solomon Islands police investigate social justice commentator

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May 30, 2020

Opinion

NZ aid workers’ open letter condemns broadcaster for Pacific ‘leeches’ attack

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September 21, 2018

The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

Opinion

The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

July 10, 2026

"I have a personal memory of meeting Jesse Jackson"

Opinion

Moana Maniapoto: The day we met Jesse Jackson – and why...

February 21, 2026

Multichannel approach by ABC

Opinion

The ABC’s role in Australia’s Pacific reset – valued and highly...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2022

Economic fog

Opinion

Bryan Bruce: The fog of economic policy is starting to clear

September 20, 2020

Independent writer Eugene Doyle

Opinion

Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide

June 2, 2025

"Activists gatecrash RH!"

Opinion

Alex Rheeney: Frontline media lessons of the past – from PNG...

December 10, 2021

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed on a placard at a New Zealand pro-Palestine rally

Opinion

Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet...

November 16, 2025

Opinion

Hard to fight nature, but Fiji deserves better house building

March 12, 2016

Press Freedom poster

Opinion

Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate

September 14, 2021

Opinion

Peter Solo Kinjap: Corruption threat to PNG – is the death...

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July 25, 2016

Covid vaccine research

Opinion

Jo Spratt: ‘Free’ covid jabs are making the mega-rich richer

September 9, 2021

Fiji police officers Corporal Gerry McGoon (on left) and PC Sevania Manulevu on foot patrol along Victoria Parade in Suva

Opinion

The Fiji Times: We need to work together in the war...

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September 10, 2023

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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

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Opinion

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

Opinion

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"

Opinion

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

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

Police presence at Australian Special Envoy Jillian Segal's presentation to the Bondi Royal Commission into Antisemitism hearing last week

Asia Report

Antisemitism envoy Segal slams ABC, SBS ‘Israel bias’, wants to vet...

Tehran doesn't answer vulgarity with vulgarity

Opinion

‘They’re scum.’ F bombs and real bombs. Trump completely outclassed by...

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

Opinion

Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

China

‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Actor Sam Neill

Culture

Sam Neill: NZ’s biggest but modest movie star dies at 78

You could always count on Lindsey Graham to be the first and loudest voice arguing in favour of more death

Opinion

Caitlin Johnstone: Well, at least Lindsey Graham is dead

Police presence at Australian Special Envoy Jillian Segal's presentation to the Bondi Royal Commission into Antisemitism hearing last week

Asia Report

Antisemitism envoy Segal slams ABC, SBS ‘Israel bias’, wants to vet...

Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Dr Sailele Malielegaoi

Democracy

Samoa opposition leader says treason inquiry delayed over lack of evidence

MOST COMMENTS

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

Opinion

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Actor Sam Neill

Culture

Sam Neill: NZ’s biggest but modest movie star dies at 78

You could always count on Lindsey Graham to be the first and loudest voice arguing in favour of more death

Opinion

Caitlin Johnstone: Well, at least Lindsey Graham is dead

Police presence at Australian Special Envoy Jillian Segal's presentation to the Bondi Royal Commission into Antisemitism hearing last week

Asia Report

Antisemitism envoy Segal slams ABC, SBS ‘Israel bias’, wants to vet...

Protesters from Americans Abroad Against the War (AAAW) taking part in a recent Auckland march against the US war on Iran

Asia Report

‘Profound strategic misjudgment’ – why Iran may have upper hand in...