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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

Kiribati

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

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China test

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

Kiribati

US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017

January 21, 2016

Pacific cyclones

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Fiji’s weather bureau predicts up to seven cyclones this season

October 24, 2022

Kiribati elections tomorrow

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

August 14, 2024

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Oceania Indigenous ‘guardians’ call for self-determination on West Papua day

December 1, 2022

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American Samoa tuna cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Tokelau

Mackenzie Smith -

May 29, 2017

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

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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NZ climate change approach must ‘transcend government’, says report

July 30, 2017

Thousands of indigenous Papuans protest in Wamena March 2022

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Pacific Elders call on Indonesia to allow UN visit to Papua...

April 22, 2022

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

November 25, 2017

Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama (left) with Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna in Suva

Kiribati

Pacific Islands Forum ‘on course’ as China issue casts shadow

July 12, 2022

The Kiribati Parliament House

Kiribati

What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?

August 5, 2024

Rival flags of China and Taiwan

Kiribati

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

January 16, 2024

Nauru's Baron Divavesi Waqa

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

February 28, 2023

Kiribati justice

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Australia-born judge facing potential deportation from Kiribati

April 24, 2024

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Pacific nations need to ‘weave together’ – act now over climate,...

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February 16, 2016

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

Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna

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Pacific Forum welcomes NZ climate aid boost, urges collective action

October 19, 2021

Kiribati

NZ to give $6m boost for USPNet telecommunications upgrade

March 27, 2018

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

Kiribati

Latest Island Studies journal features social justice activism and advocacy

June 1, 2023

Huge container ships carrying import and export marine cargo loads

Kiribati

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

July 8, 2023

Kiribati

COP21: Pacific battles for recognition in new Climate Change agreement

December 4, 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

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

Mangaia's Agnes Armstrong

Cook Islands

Mangaia trio backs CIP, bringing ‘supermajority’ within reach

In late-June, PNG Prime Minister James Marape instructed all provinces

Climate

‘On another scale’ – PNG province unprepared for El Niño impacts,...

The New Arab's report in Arabic with a photograph of a pro-Palestinian rally in Auckland's Te Komititanga Square

Asia Report

New Zealand faces lawsuit over technology use during Gaza war

Killed Fiji military detainee Jone Vakarisi

Crime

Four months on, still no charges in death of man in...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Defenders of the International Criminal Court, led by the pan-European group Eumans, rally in Rome

Asia Report

‘Deranged behaviour’ – Marco Rubio slammed for US sanctions on ICC...

The Strait of Hormuz - closed

Asia Report

Correcting the Trump delusions about the Strait of Hormuz

In late-June, PNG Prime Minister James Marape instructed all provinces

Climate

‘On another scale’ – PNG province unprepared for El Niño impacts,...

World Vision says humanitarian agencies are not seeing the lawlessness and disregard for international humanitarian law in the Pacific

Climate

Pacific humanitarian workers face major logistical and access challenges, says World...

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

Cook Islands caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown and US Ambassador Jared Novelly exchange gifts

Cook Islands

‘Teeming with life’: Cook Islands officials enthuse over NOAA deep dive

Defenders of the International Criminal Court, led by the pan-European group Eumans, rally in Rome

Asia Report

‘Deranged behaviour’ – Marco Rubio slammed for US sanctions on ICC...

The Strait of Hormuz - closed

Asia Report

Correcting the Trump delusions about the Strait of Hormuz

World Vision says humanitarian agencies are not seeing the lawlessness and disregard for international humanitarian law in the Pacific

Climate

Pacific humanitarian workers face major logistical and access challenges, says World...