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Israel has been added to the Pacific Islands Forum list as a sectoral partner

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‘Strengthening ties’ or ‘shameful’? – why Israel’s new Pacific status is splitting the region

October 27, 2026

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

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Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot of empire

The French and Kanak flags flying high

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New Caledonia pro-independence leaders boycott EU critical minerals deal

US envoy to UN Tammy Bruce

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US envoy seeks ‘termination’ of UN decolonisation committee, slams Pacific ‘junkets’

Pro-France New Caledonian politician Nicolas Metzdorf, a deputy in the French National Assembly

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‘We are not a French province’ – Vanuatu slams pro-France lawmaker’s ‘racist rant’

TSIMA reporting from Palau - today's story in the Torres News

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Australia snubs Torres Strait in Melanesian Spearhead Group bid

Pacific Media Watch -

September 10, 2026

New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli

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France commits more financial help to struggling New Caledonia

September 5, 2026

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters in Palau for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

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Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale

September 1, 2026

"Alii - welcome to Palau"

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Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat

August 31, 2026

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau

August 31, 2026

New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli

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New Caledonia’s President Tukumuli outlines six-month recovery roadmap

August 26, 2026

Kanaky New Caledonia's new Territorial President Milakulo Tukumuli

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

August 1, 2026

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

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Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

July 11, 2026

Northern provincial President Paul Néaoutine, first elected in 1999, has been reelected

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Horse-trading in New Caledonia over provincial presidency elections

July 4, 2026

Pascal Sawa, head of the UC-FLNKS list in the Northern province, welcomes the results in the municipality of Houaïlou

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Official results confirmed for New Caledonia’s provincial elections

June 30, 2026

Laurie Humuni, general secretary of the Oceanian Democratic Rally (RDO)

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Pro-French, pro-independence blocs remain in New Caledonia election

June 29, 2026

The Kanaky New Caledonia elections count tonight

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Counting underway at polling stations in New Caledonia provincial elections

June 28, 2026

Nouméa voters queue at the Town Hall after polling places opened

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Heavy security deployed as New Caledonia’s crucial elections begin

June 28, 2026

A former Kanaky New Caledonia territorial government president, Louis Mapou, heads the breakaway pro-independence UNI list

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New Caledonia’s political parties make final pitch to voters before campaigning...

June 27, 2026

Four days before the Kanaky New Caledonia provincial elections, the pro-independence Kanak Workers and Exploited Workers' Union (USTKE) has announced its voting preferences in all three provinces

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Alcohol sales banned in New Caledonia as provincial election approaches

June 24, 2026

Nouméa bus operator Tanéo

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Greater Nouméa bus service to be maintained on election day

June 21, 2026

Political party posters on display at the Nouméa Town Hall

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Campaigning in full swing as New Caledonia heads toward crucial provincial...

June 19, 2026

The opening of the 2026 session of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (C-24) meeting

New Caledonia

Renewed UN calls for decolonisation action on New Caledonia, French Polynesia,...

June 19, 2026

Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General

New Caledonia

Vanuatu’s Anna Naupa becomes first woman to lead MSG Secretariat

June 18, 2026

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

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New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

June 12, 2026

Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel

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Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

June 11, 2026

Charges dropped for FLNKS president Christian Téin

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Latest Paris court ruling triggers polarised reactions in New Caledonia

June 10, 2026

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

Analysis

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

BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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...

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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 Solomon Islands coat of arms on Parliament buildings in Honiara

Democracy

Solomon Islands government moves to end ‘unstable coalitions, party defections’

A section of the cover of New Zealand author Peter Macky's new book, Gaza: Anatomy of a Genocide

Asia Report

NZ author praised over new book ‘bearing witness’ to Gaza genocide

Global progress against impunity for crimes against journalists has been reversed by the rise in incidents of journalists killed in conflict zones

Analysis

Journalism cannot survive where attacks on journalists go unpunished

A Lakapi Samoa billboard in Apia

Global

National Olympic body to oversee arrangement for rugby in Samoa

EDITOR'S PICKS

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt

Democracy

Samoa government urged at UN to address declining media freedom

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under fire

Asia Report

‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

Asia Report

PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

US midterm elections in the Pacific

American Samoa

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

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

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under fire

Asia Report

‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

Asia Report

PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

US midterm elections in the Pacific

American Samoa

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders

Crime

Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu