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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

Kiribati MP Ruth Cross Kwansing

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NZ-Kiribati fallout: A ‘Pacific way’ perspective on the Peters spat

Minuteman III test launch, California

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Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

It would be clearly unwise for New Zealand to threaten or cut aid to Kiribati

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NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau’s inability to engage with NZ difficult to defend

Pacific Elders Voice group's chair Anote Tong

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Pacific at a crossroads amid growing geopolitical tension, says former leaders’ group

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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American Samoa tuna cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Tokelau

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May 29, 2017

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

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

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China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

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PMC projects lure doco makers, politics writer and Fiji journalist

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March 15, 2018

TVNZ's Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver with Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro at Government House

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TVNZ Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver awarded ONZM for investigative journalism

Pacific Media Watch -

May 10, 2024

Kiribati President Taneti Maamau (left) and NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau govt minister says ‘impacts to be felt by...

January 28, 2025

"Whakaako Kia Whakaora - Educate to Liberate" - Polynesian Panthers

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Latest Island Studies journal features social justice activism and advocacy

June 1, 2023

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

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China’s high-level ‘milestone’ visit to the Pacific ahead of schedule

May 24, 2022

Former Kiribati President Anote Tong

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Kiribati ‘cooking something with China’, says ex-Kiribati president

July 14, 2022

Covid-19 vaccinations being given in Vanuatu

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Vaccine inequity in the Pacific: ‘We need to support our neighbours’

January 30, 2022

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Call for new media strategies for climate change journalism

May 12, 2016

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

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February 19, 2020

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

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US worried about losing out in South Pacific to Chinese influence

February 6, 2022

Hibiscus and Bays deputy chair Victoria Short

Kiribati

Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots

September 13, 2021

Nauru's Baron Divavesi Waqa

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

February 28, 2023

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Kiribati withdrawal from Pacific Islands Forum a major blow

July 11, 2022

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

April 25, 2018

Kiribati

‘Crisis within a crisis’: Violence more risky for Fiji women than...

February 25, 2021

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Kiribati – a Pacific ‘drowning paradise’ fighting for its existence

November 25, 2017

Coastal flooding in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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It’s time to deliver on Pacific climate financing, says Cook Is...

November 10, 2021

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Pacific Islanders debate paradox of ‘Oceanianism’ and global citizens

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January 29, 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 Fiji diaspora in Niue meet a government delegation

Culture

Fiji finalising diaspora policy to ensure citizens abroad ‘keep coming back’

Professor Vijay Naidu

Civil Society

Fiji universities criticised for ‘great shame’ of ignoring coup impacts

PSNA flyers supporting Palestine

Asia Report

Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru...

The International Criminal Court in The Hague

Asia Report

NZ called on to back international law in ICC vote –...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The Akaroa Mail editor and owner Michael de Hamel, 41 years at the helm

Business

NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years

Fiji's Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC)

Democracy

Fiji’s former chief prosecutor claims govt conspiracy to remove him

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel

Iranian Ambassador to New Zealand Reza Nazar Ahari

Asia Report

Iranian Ambassador: Why the US blundered so badly – diplomacy and...

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

PSNA flyers supporting Palestine

Asia Report

Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru...

Fiji's Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC)

Democracy

Fiji’s former chief prosecutor claims govt conspiracy to remove him

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel

Iranian Ambassador to New Zealand Reza Nazar Ahari

Asia Report

Iranian Ambassador: Why the US blundered so badly – diplomacy and...