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Pacific island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and Marshall Islands face the worst of climate change

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Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for island region’s ‘survival’

July 18, 2022

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka speaks to reporters after the Media Industry Development Act 2010 was repealed in Parliament on 6 April 2023

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The Fiji Times: Draconian media law gone – good riddance!

Pacific journalism author and educator Dr David Robie

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Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific

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USP journo students return from Solomons climate storytelling project

Voreqe Bainimarama, prime minister of Fiji until December 2022

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Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets

People's Alliance leader Sitiveni Rabuka

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Fiji elections: SODELPA has ‘sold its soul’, says Rabuka

December 10, 2022

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USP hosts talks on social media and fake news in Pacific

Pacific Media Watch -

July 4, 2019

Bitila Tawake of Fiji is tackled during the Pool C Rugby World Cup 2021 match between Fiji and South Africa

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Fijiana hopes up with one game away from World Cup quarterfinals

October 19, 2022

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COP21: Pacific battles for recognition in new Climate Change agreement

December 4, 2015

Fiji vaccinations

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Fiji medics save newborn babies – mothers among 21 new covid...

July 22, 2021

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Man linked to gang activity dies after Fiji military detention, local...

April 17, 2026

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Fijian students design superheroes to challenge ‘Silence’ in comic contest

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October 17, 2018

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Cyclone ‘flattened’ 10 villages in Fiji’s Ra – now 22,181 evacuees

February 25, 2016

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Fiji Times challenges government over exclusive advertising deal

Pacific Media Watch -

April 5, 2016

Fiji's port in the capital of Suva

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Fiji slapped with Trump’s highest tariffs among Pacific countries

April 3, 2025

Prayers of elation . . . a jubilant Fiji after beating Australia 22-15

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RWC2023: Simi Kuruvoli’s boot helps ‘best ever’ Flying Fijians beat Wallabies

September 18, 2023

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Pacific public health warning over Zika virus infection

January 30, 2016

Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and PIF Secretary General Baron Waqa

Fiji

Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia

August 11, 2024

Media

Lifting of Fiji journo ban ‘curious’, says reporter

October 18, 2016

Fiji's Dr James Fong and Dr Aalisha Sahukhan

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Three senior Fiji Ministry of Health staff contract covid-19 – 35...

June 5, 2021

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Pacific Beat: How Pacific governments use coronavirus crisis to curb media

Pacific Media Watch -

May 1, 2020

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‘We’re losing the climate change battle,’ warns Macron

December 14, 2017

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka with villagers of Wailevu

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Fiji’s PM Rabuka hits back: ‘We’ve every right to appoint and...

January 3, 2023

Members of the newly formed APMN at a recent meeting at the Whanau Community Hub in Mt Roskill

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New Asia Pacific nonprofit takes up role of PJR publishing for...

September 15, 2022

Award-winning Wansolwara student editor Sera Tikotikoivatu-Sefeti

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Pacific climate stories need to be ‘heard and told’, says USP...

October 19, 2022

Advocate and writer Tina Ngata (Ngati Porou)

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Māori advocate Tina Ngata hails ‘overwhelming’ indigenous support for Palestine

March 14, 2024

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Advocates call for more more political will when faced with bureaucratic...

August 14, 2015

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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

Fiji

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

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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

Fiji

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

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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

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

Fiji

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

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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

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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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has expressed grave concern for the safety and well-being of human rights activists Palestinian Saif Abu Kishek and Brazilian Thiago Ávila, who were abducted by Israeli commandos

Asia Report

Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli...

Global Sumud Flotilla boats have been intercepted illegally by Israeli Defense Forces

Asia Report

NZer in flotilla intercepted by Israel has concussion and possible broken...

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

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

EDITOR'S PICKS

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

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

Global Sumud Flotilla boats have been intercepted illegally by Israeli Defense Forces

Asia Report

NZer in flotilla intercepted by Israel has concussion and possible broken...

"Hands up" . . . Global Sumud Flotilla protesters

Asia Report

Former Greek minister slams ‘Western complicity’ over brutal Israeli kidnap...

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

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

Fiji

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

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

Fiji

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

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

Fiji

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

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has expressed grave concern for the safety and well-being of human rights activists Palestinian Saif Abu Kishek and Brazilian Thiago Ávila, who were abducted by Israeli commandos

Asia Report

Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli...

Fiji has climbed from 40th place in 2025 in the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index

Fiji

Political reforms drive Fiji’s big press freedom gains, says RSF