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Winners of the Goldman Environmental Award winners, 2026

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Bougainville advocate among all-women lineup winning Goldman Environmental prize

April 25, 2026

Young people celebrate Bougainville Patriotism Day

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Most UPNG students don’t want independence for Bougainville, new survey shows

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama announces the caretaker Bougainville Executive Council (BEC)

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Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, names caretaker government

Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers

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‘We want legitimate leaders’: Bougainvilleans head to the polls amid push for independence

Thousands of Bougainvilleans flocked to the polls on 23 November 2019 to vote in the referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea

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Bougainville 2025 election: What’s at stake?

Incumbent Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama

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Bougainville’s President Ishmael Toroama candid and relaxed a week out from...

August 27, 2025

Bougainville woman politician Elizabeth Tako Palin

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‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s...

August 15, 2025

Iora Open MP Theonila Roka Matbob in central Bougainville

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Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat

July 27, 2025

Former PNG national Parliament regional representative for Bougainville Joe Lera . . . "We will try to make big changes in addressing sustainable development"

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Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development

July 23, 2025

Incumbent Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama

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Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament

July 16, 2025

ABG House Speaker Simon Pentanu will has issued the writs for the fifth general elections in September

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Bougainville election process begins as writs issued for September poll

July 8, 2025

The Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama (left) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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Talks result in PNG and Bougainville signing ‘Melanesian Agreement’

June 28, 2025

Papua New Guineans accused of sorcery are frequently beaten, tortured, and murdered

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Bougainville legal dept looking towards sorcery violence policy

June 13, 2025

Bougainville President Ishamel Toroama speaking at the launch of the Bougainville Digital Democracy Project earlier this year

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Progress reported out of Bougainville independence talks at Burnham

June 12, 2025

Coverage of decolonisation in the Pacific, the lack of women's representation in parliaments

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Independent Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts

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June 5, 2025

People queue to vote in Bougainville’s independence referendum in 2019

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Bougainville takes the initiative in mediation over independence

April 22, 2025

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (left) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape pictured in September 2024

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Bougainville president condemns ‘dangerous’ AI-generated fake video of scuffle with Marape

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April 7, 2025

People waiting to vote in Bougainville’s capital Buka during the referendum on independence in 2019

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Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence

March 22, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (right)

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PNG and Bougainville to hold more talks on independence issue

March 20, 2025

The late Sir Julius Chan

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Former PNG army commander Jerry Singirok pays tribute to Sir Julius...

February 1, 2025

The Pacific 2025 year ahead

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Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set...

January 4, 2025

Palestine - "a moral litmus test for the world"

Bougainville

Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024

January 3, 2025

Theonila Roka Matbob, lead complainant

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Panguna human rights report fuels Bougainville demands for Rio Tinto-funded mine...

December 8, 2024

The Panguna mine as seen in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea,

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Rio Tinto class action begins over ‘toxic’ Bougainville mine disaster

October 13, 2024

Artisanal miners search for gold in the waters downstream from the Panguna mine

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Lawsuit promises justice for Rio Tinto’s mining disaster in Bougainville –...

August 2, 2024

Mining giant RioTinto

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Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant

July 24, 2024

Former Green parliamentarian and political activist Keith Locke at a Waihopai protest

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How former Greens MP Keith Locke often became a voice for...

June 27, 2024

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

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

Analysis

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

Analysis

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"

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

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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

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

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Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea

Democracy

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

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‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

EDITOR'S PICKS

"Welcome to Hell" - Inside Israeli torture prisons for Palestinians

Analysis

After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea

Democracy

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March

Democracy

FMA praises Fiji media workers for press freedom climb but warns...

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

PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea

Democracy

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

Reporters Without Borders says for the first time in the Index's history, more than half of the world's countries now fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories for press freedom

Australia

Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain...

Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March

Democracy

FMA praises Fiji media workers for press freedom climb but warns...