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1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver

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

March 12, 2026

Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

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Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy

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

Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Dr Biman Prasad

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‘Decolonise’ aid urgent call from Fiji’s Prasad to face Pacific climate crisis

The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025

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Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

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Top level Chinese delegation headed to Kiribati – questions over Kanton

May 25, 2022

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Pacific Islanders debate paradox of ‘Oceanianism’ and global citizens

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January 29, 2016

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Pacific public health warning over Zika virus infection

January 30, 2016

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‘We prayed with them until they died’ – stories of Kiribati...

February 6, 2018

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COP21: Politicians leading world to ‘very dangerous future’, says Naomi Klein

December 5, 2015

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

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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

Nauru's Baron Divavesi Waqa

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Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an...

February 28, 2023

US President Joe Biden (centre) participates in a trilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (right) and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

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‘Bringing war much closer to home’ – Pacific elders denounce AUKUS...

April 12, 2023

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Kiribati withdrawal from Pacific Islands Forum a major blow

July 11, 2022

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Kiribati’s sacred sites storyteller – ‘I don’t hold the answer of...

January 13, 2016

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

April 25, 2018

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COP21: Pacific battles for recognition in new Climate Change agreement

December 4, 2015

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

Pacific Media Watch -

April 21, 2016

PIF Zoom

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Micronesian leaders boycott Forum, stand firm on plan to leave bloc

August 7, 2021

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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Joey Tau: Can the MSG bloc walk out on the PACER-Plus...

June 13, 2017

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Act now to avoid tragedy, academic warns politicians on climate

February 15, 2016

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More frontline research ‘by Pacific for Pacific’ plea at climate summit

February 25, 2018

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PMC projects lure doco makers, politics writer and Fiji journalist

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March 15, 2018

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Fifth Estate: ‘Bomber’ talks climate change and the impact on Pacific

March 30, 2016

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Key misses vital moment to step up over climate change –...

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September 24, 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

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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

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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

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

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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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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)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

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Jone Vakarisi . . . asked if he was planning a coup

Crime

‘His life mattered’: Family of man who died in Fiji military...

A decision on the waste-to-energy proposal can only be issued following the completion of the full technical and regulatory review

Environment

Fiji PM Rabuka gives govt support for controversial waste-to-energy project

Assassinated Amal Khalil

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Targeted Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil bombed and left to die by...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

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

The US-Israeli war against Iran on hold . . . who really has the cards? I

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Starlink green light . . . good news for many Papua New Guineans

Disasters

Starlink set to return to PNG after court quashes ban, clearing...

Under international law -- if anyone still pays attention to such things -- the Iranians have a strong case

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

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

A decision on the waste-to-energy proposal can only be issued following the completion of the full technical and regulatory review

Environment

Fiji PM Rabuka gives govt support for controversial waste-to-energy project

The US-Israeli war against Iran on hold . . . who really has the cards? I

Analysis

Martyn Bradbury: Why Iran is winning and will continue to win

Under international law -- if anyone still pays attention to such things -- the Iranians have a strong case

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...