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New Caledonia's Assembly President Roch Wamytan talking to news media in Baku

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‘Ambitious’ French political document presented to New Caledonian parties

September 14, 2023

Members of the Indonesian delegation at the Melanesian Leaders' Summit pre-meeting of the Foreign Ministers' in Port Vila last month

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Indonesia responds after claim official attempted to bribe RNZ Pacific journalist

Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu

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West Papuan supporters ‘let down’ by MSG leaders, says advocate

Flying high for Melanesia . . . the Kanaky New Caledonia flag

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MSG leaders back Kanak challenge to Macron over ‘not valid’ referendum

Vanuatu's Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu

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Sad Regenvanu condemns MSG for ‘failing’ people of West Papua

The ground-breaking ceremony for the Indonesian-funded ugrade of the VIP Lounge in Port Vila

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Vanuatu asked for Indonesian aid funds, Jakarta’s envoy reveals

August 28, 2023

Former Vanuatu prime minister Barak Sope

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Wenda calls on MSG for urgent action to back pledge over...

August 27, 2023

Vanuatu's public broadcaster VBTC reporting on the Melanesian Spearhead Group's denial of full membership for West Papua

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OPM accuses Melanesian group of taking Jakarta’s ‘blood money’ at expense...

August 27, 2023

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group

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MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for...

August 26, 2023

MSG leaders sign the two declarations - on climate crisis and subregional security

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MSG leaders defer Papua membership decision to Pacific Islands Forum

August 25, 2023

The Melanesian Spearhead Group pact signing in Port Vila yesterday

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Melanesian leaders sign security and climate crisis declarations

August 25, 2023

Flying high . . . the Morning Star ensign -- banned in Indonesia -- flying alongside the Vanuatu national flag in Port Vila

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‘The world is watching’ – it’s a test for Melanesian leaders...

August 24, 2023

West Papuans prepare for yesterday's rally in Wamena

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Benny Wenda says dream of MSG full membership ‘will happen’ in...

August 23, 2023

A big gathering of West Papuans in support of full West Papuan membership of the MSG took place peacefully this afternoon in the capital Jayapura

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Senior MSG official calls for Melanesia to remain neutral in geopolitical...

August 22, 2023

The French and Fiji flags

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France aims to boost Pacific ‘cultural diplomacy’ with French lessons in...

August 21, 2023

The West Papua delegation flying the Morning Star flag at the opening of the MACFEST 2023

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West Papua high on agenda as MSG leaders set to convene...

August 19, 2023

The image on one of the French media stories about Kanak sexual violence allegations based on reports challenged

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Open letter criticises ‘colonial’ French agency, media over Kanaky sexual violence...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 15, 2023

Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron

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Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to French...

August 3, 2023

Huge rallies across West Papua region in support of MSG membership

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Wenda accuses Jakarta of crackdown in response to Papuan MSG ...

July 31, 2023

Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron

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Macron keen on Varirata forest lookout for bilateral talks with PNG

July 28, 2023

The beginning of a journey to resolve the land issue in Vanuatu’s Southern region

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France, Vanuatu agree to sort out ‘southern land’ border dispute

July 28, 2023

French President Emmanuel Macron with the New Caledonia territorial President Louis Mapou

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Macron to ditch Noumea Accord for self-determination and introduce new statute...

July 27, 2023

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with a traditional Kanak dancer

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Macron urges Kanaky New Caledonia ‘compatriots’ to chart united path

July 26, 2023

French President Emmanuel Macron visits Kanak villagers yesterday in an area near Tuoho

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PNG plans 21-gun salute for Macron in historic visit to an...

July 26, 2023

French President Emmanuel Macron speaking in Noumea today

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Macron in New Caledonia to bolster France’s Indo-Pacific strategy

July 25, 2023

Morning Star flags of West Papuan independence on display at MACFEST2023

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Yamin Kogoya: ‘Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future’ – culture and...

July 24, 2023

A KNPB rally in support of full membership for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group

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Melanesian Spearhead Group summit postponed – West Papua uncertain

July 19, 2023

CLIMATE AND COVID

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

Stephanie Sageo-Tapungu

Climate

How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

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Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

BEARING WITNESS

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

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

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

Bearing Witness

Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere

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While PNG promotes APEC big money, youth are building grassroots resilience

APJS newsfile

40 luxury Maseratis for PNG, but little effort put into climate...

APJS newsfile

Tukuitonga goes into battle on behalf of Pacific for WHO position

APJS newsfile

Memo NZ: ‘Get on the right side of history’ over West...

POPULAR POSTS

Labour leader Chris Hipkins and National's Christopher Luxon toe-to-toe in last night's first NZ election leaders debate

Climate

NZ election 2023: Hipkins and Luxon in fast-paced debate but fail...

Flying Fijians replacement flanker Lekima Tagitagivalu

Fiji

RWC2023: Fiji’s ’16th man’ – how French support boosts Flying Fijians

Home Affairs Minister Pio Tikoduadua

Crime

‘Remain calm’, Fiji’s Pio tells public over firebombing incident in Suva

Prime Minister James Marape at Thursday's pre-Independence Day celebration

Democracy

Marape calls for policies for a ‘better PNG’ in independence message

EDITOR'S PICKS

Climate protesters in Wellington in May

Climate

NZ election 2023: Both Labour and National face multimillion dollar ‘climate...

Fiji Parliament passes a motion to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Democracy

Fijian lawmakers vote for truth-telling body to ‘heal coup pains, scars’

Clarifications or not, PNG Prime Minister James Marape has left a lingering impression that Papua New Guinea’s foreign policy is for sale

Analysis

PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua

PNG Prime Minister James Marape at the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) summit in Port Vila

Decolonisation

PNG leader Marape denies Papua human rights comments were his

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

Traditional landowners in Rempang pictured after clashing with Indonesian security forces

Asia Report

Indigenous rights group highlights rise in land grabs under Jokowi’s watch

Logging piles on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea

Development

Campaigners call on PNG govt to act over destructive logging

The PNG flag being raised for the first time as an independent nation on 16 September 2023

Decolonisation

PNG Post-Courier: Our democracy, our Melanesian way

Australia

OPM calls for decolonisation of West Papua, condemns UN ‘collusion’