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Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Cook Islands

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll and its 230 people

September 3, 2026

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

Cook Islands

US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’

The Realm of New Zealand's four leaders

Cook Islands

New Zealand says its ties with its Realm countries remain strong and stable

Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Mark Brown’s Cook Islands Party set to govern for historic fifth consecutive term

The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji

Cook Islands

Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco threat

Caretaker Prime Minister and Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown with supporters on election night

Cook Islands

Stability key driver in Cook Islands Party’s election performance, says analyst

August 21, 2026

Cook Islands caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown and US Ambassador Jared Novelly exchange gifts

Cook Islands

‘Teeming with life’: Cook Islands officials enthuse over NOAA deep dive

August 20, 2026

Democratic Party leader Tina Pupuke-Browne

Cook Islands

Democratic Party pledges ‘honest review’ after preliminary election wipeout in Cook...

August 18, 2026

Mangaia's Agnes Armstrong

Cook Islands

Mangaia trio backs CIP, bringing ‘supermajority’ within reach

August 17, 2026

Cook Islands

Cook Islands election: preliminary results starting to come in

August 13, 2026

The Cook Islands Parliament

Cook Islands

Polling booths open in Cook Islands election

August 13, 2026

Cooks Islands leaders participated in a youth debate on Monday

Cook Islands

Cost of living, water tariffs, mining on Cook Islanders’ minds ahead...

August 12, 2026

Contesting the Cook Islands elections

Cook Islands

Two-way battle – no clear majority as Cook Islands prepares for...

August 11, 2026

political parties appear to have lost their "attraction, drawcard and magic touch".

Cook Islands

Cook Islands election: ‘The political party system is facing extinction’

August 3, 2026

New US Ambassador Jared Novelly to NZ

Cook Islands

New US ambassador to New Zealand says Cook Islands a top...

July 6, 2026

King's Representative of the Cook Islands Sir Tom Marsters

Cook Islands

Cook Islands set to head to the polls in six weeks...

June 26, 2026

Cook Islands says bulk-buying and stockpiling places pressure on supply for everyone and is not necessary

Cook Islands

A timeline of how the fuel crisis impacted on the Pacific

June 25, 2026

A protester at the Anzac Day rally in Auckland Tamaki Makaurau today

Cook Islands

PSNA calls on McKee to condemn Israel’s bulldozing of NZ war...

April 25, 2026

TVNZ 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver

Cook Islands

‘There’s volatile times ahead’ for the Pacific, warns Barbara Dreaver

March 13, 2026

1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver

Cook Islands

Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific

March 12, 2026

New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie

Cook Islands

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

March 5, 2026

NZ First leader Winston Peters (left) and Labour leader Chris Hipkins

Cook Islands

Labour’s Chris Hipkins accuses Winston Peters of ‘pure racism’ in Parliament

February 19, 2026

"Tahiti is mentioned in various email exchanges involving Epstein"

Cook Islands

‘The girl from Tahiti’ – Pacific Islands in the Epstein files

February 16, 2026

French sailors hunker down in an inflatable

Cook Islands

French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’

February 5, 2026

Taiātea Symposium at Waitangi 2026

Cook Islands

Indigenous and Pacific leaders unite at Waitangi with shared messages on...

February 5, 2026

The Cook Islands Maritime Authority says the Bertha is deceptively continuing to use Cook Islands Identifiers

Cook Islands

Sanctioned oil tanker falsely using Cook Islands flag, authority says

January 8, 2026

Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus at Rarotonga port last month, holding banners proclaiming "Don’t Mine The Moana"

Cook Islands

Growing local opposition to seabed mining decision has forced Cook Islands...

November 13, 2025

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

Cook Islands

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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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...

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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

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott

Asia Report

How Free Palestine party plans to pressure NZ govt over its...

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

Leaders at the round table for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting Plenary in Koror, Palau

China

Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Asia Report

Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau

EDITOR'S PICKS

New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli

Development

France commits more financial help to struggling New Caledonia

Peace movement historian Maire Leadbeater

Asia Report

Shane te Pou: Matua Pita Tipene, I wish you weren’t in...

Indonesian Embassy response on West Papua

Asia Report

UN human rights commissioner visit to West Papua on track, says...

A Chinese strategic nuclear submarine launched a warhead-carrying missile in July

Asia Report

Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test

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

Protester Craig Tynan "shows the flag"

Asia Report

Palestine protesters renew ‘don’t buy Israeli’ pledge, demand NZ sanction Israel

Rescue teams in Nepal are working around the clock to reach workers trapped

Asia Report

Tibetan community shocked by devastation from Nepal flash flood

New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli

Development

France commits more financial help to struggling New Caledonia

Peace movement historian Maire Leadbeater

Asia Report

Shane te Pou: Matua Pita Tipene, I wish you weren’t in...