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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

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

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

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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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...

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April 21, 2016

New Zealand Reporter of the Year Barbara Dreaver

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

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December 30, 2023

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Australian news crew detained in Kiribati for providing ‘false information’

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October 31, 2019

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

February 25, 2018

Emalus USP protest

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Pacific leaders call for ‘common sense’ to prevail in USP impasse

June 13, 2020

Kiribati justice

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Australia-born judge facing potential deportation from Kiribati

April 24, 2024

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NZ to give $6m boost for USPNet telecommunications upgrade

March 27, 2018

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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

Australia’s aid to the Pacific has been "greenwashed"

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Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’

November 4, 2021

Pasifika broadcasters

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‘Let’s tell our own stories’ – Pacific broadcasters seek sovereignty

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June 6, 2023

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

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

Former Kiribati President Anote Tong

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

July 14, 2022

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American Samoa tuna cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Tokelau

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May 29, 2017

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Tuila’epa to open high-powered Pacific climate conference

February 19, 2018

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

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February 19, 2020

Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama SIDS

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Covid pandemic blows world off course over climate crisis, says Bainimarama

August 31, 2021

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

June 15, 2017

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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

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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

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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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Winners of the Goldman Environmental Award winners, 2026

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Bougainville advocate among all-women lineup winning Goldman Environmental prize

Author Shana Chandra

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Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

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

Fiji Minister for Defence Pio Tikoduadua

Crime

Injured Fiji police officer in checkpoint incident ‘is my daughter’, says...

EDITOR'S PICKS

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 narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

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

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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

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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

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

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

Indonesian police launch a brutal crackdown against Papuan protesters

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Wenda calls on Indonesia to halt crackdown on peaceful Papua protests

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel