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An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

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Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

July 16, 2026

Minuteman III test launch, California

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Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

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Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire edition

Recent aid arrangements are emblematic of the geopolitical tussle playing out in the Pacific between China and the US and its allies

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Superpower rivalry makes Pacific aid a bargaining chip – vulnerable nations still lose out

The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report

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Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom

Kiribati elections tomorrow

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Kiribati elections 2024 – what’s at stake in today’s vote

August 14, 2024

Republic of Marshall Islands President David Kabua

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‘Our future looks secure’, says Puna on Pacific Islands Forum unity

February 21, 2023

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

Sri Krishnamurthi -

February 19, 2020

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...

July 18, 2022

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Climate change ‘defining issue for the world’, says Labour MP

June 15, 2017

Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna

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Pacific Forum welcomes NZ climate aid boost, urges collective action

October 19, 2021

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Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing

March 7, 2016

All Media and Democracy Workshop participants were required to submit stories each day

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Majuro workshop and summit spotlight media and democracy

Pacific Media Watch -

June 26, 2023

New Zealand Reporter of the Year Barbara Dreaver

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Pacific journalists are strong and ‘it’s up to us’, says honoured...

Pacific Media Watch -

December 30, 2023

Rival flags of China and Taiwan

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China has ‘whittled down’ key Taiwan support with Nauru move, says...

January 16, 2024

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Call for new media strategies for climate change journalism

May 12, 2016

Flags of the Pacific Islands Forum members

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Pacific leaders commit to Forum reforms and ‘family unity’

February 26, 2023

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USP Council lifts suspension of academic chief – no due process

June 19, 2020

Nauru President Lionel Aingimea

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Covid-19 in the Pacific – Nauru reports first two cases in...

April 3, 2022

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Gallery: Bearing Witness journeys north …. to Fiji’s idyllic Rabi Island

April 25, 2018

Sports

Kiribati to compete in two events at the Rio 2016 Olympics

August 2, 2016

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Pacific journalists make human rights declaration for ‘voiceless’

April 16, 2016

Huge container ships carrying import and export marine cargo loads

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UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’

July 8, 2023

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Fear of reprisal puts limit on Pacific human rights journalism, say...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 21, 2016

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

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RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour

Pacific Media Watch -

June 3, 2022

Pacific Aftershocks

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Aftershocks of covid-19 threaten to undo gains across Pacific, says report

October 18, 2021

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Images: Asia-Pacific delegates make their mark at global media conference

July 21, 2016

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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

Kiribati

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

Kiribati

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

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

Kiribati

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

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

Editor's Picks

Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns

Analysis

Sinister ‘Free Speech Union’ attacks investigative journalist for being investigative

Kanaky New Caledonia's new Territorial President Milakulo Tukumuli

Democracy

‘Kingmaker’ candidate elected new president of New Caledonia’s government

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Asia Report

Manasseh Sogavare unleashes on Solomon Islands government over US agreement

EDITOR'S PICKS

112 members of two Palestinian families - Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia - have been buried in Gaza

Asia Report

Gaza genocide: Mourning the 112 victims of two families of Israeli...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Asia Report

Manasseh Sogavare unleashes on Solomon Islands government over US agreement

In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership

Asia Report

NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo

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

112 members of two Palestinian families - Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia - have been buried in Gaza

Asia Report

Gaza genocide: Mourning the 112 victims of two families of Israeli...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Asia Report

Manasseh Sogavare unleashes on Solomon Islands government over US agreement

In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership

Asia Report

NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo