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Indian Ocean’s Smartfish wins global award for fight against illegal fishing

March 11, 2016

Australia's new Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Solomon Islands

Pacific security should be a matter for ‘Pacific family’, says Wong

Chinese infrastructure assistance for Solomon Islands amid covid-19 pandemic

Solomon Islands

Chinese project experts arrive in Solomons amid pandemic surge

Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Honiara doesn’t want to be forced to choose sides, says Foreign Minister

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands police remain on high alert in the wake of political unrest

Solomon Islands

Indonesia may appoint special envoy to South Pacific

April 1, 2016

Solomon Islands

30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital

Pacific Media Centre -

April 25, 2019

Solomon Islands

Gallery: Pacific student journalists show their stuff on USP awards night

October 22, 2018

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) voted

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands election 2024: Polling day workers cast early votes

April 7, 2024

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Solomon Islands

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

Pacific Media Watch -

May 8, 2026

Solomon Islands

Landmark report into illegal fishing will boost control efforts in Pacific

March 22, 2016

PNG Police Commissioner David Manning

Solomon Islands

PNG’s police deployment in Honiara ‘vital’ for regional security

November 30, 2021

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Solomon Islands

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 5, 2026

Solomon Islanders queuing up to cast their ballots

Solomon Islands

‘The right person’: What did Solomon Islanders vote for?

April 18, 2024

The leaked drafts are just that: drafts

Solomon Islands

Amplifying narratives about the ‘China threat’ in the Pacific may help...

May 27, 2022

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other...

August 10, 2026

Solomon Islands

Pacific ‘cyberbullying’, PNG student protests, ‘free’ media featured in PJR

Pacific Journalism Review -

January 31, 2017

Morning Star flags of West Papuan independence on display at MACFEST2023

Solomon Islands

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

July 24, 2023

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Solomons PM warns journalists against ‘yellow journalism’ rumours

Pacific Media Watch -

July 30, 2021

Newspaper street vendors in Honiara.

Solomon Islands

How China is manipulating the information war in the Pacific

March 17, 2022

Victoria University's Nanai Anae Dr Iati Iati

Solomon Islands

New Zealand framing China as ‘the devil’ insincere, says Pacific lecturer

June 29, 2024

University of Papua New Guinea students protest against the US-PNG defence pact

Solomon Islands

Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific

May 22, 2023

Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: Wale calls for no confidence vote in ‘hiding’...

November 27, 2021

The Melanesian Spearhead Secretariat office in Port Vila

Solomon Islands

West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG

June 6, 2023

The Pacific is not some rogue part of Tasmania. It’s an ocean of independent countries.

Solomon Islands

Solomons security shambles, and now it’s time for realism over hype

April 26, 2022

Solomon Islands

WJEC16: ‘Early bird’ arrivals start for global, Pacific journalism events

July 12, 2016

Solomon Islands

West Papuans in Vanuatu reject Jakarta response to Solomons PM

May 25, 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

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

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

Coronavirus

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

Solomon Islands

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

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

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

Maltese authorities must implement the long overdue measures protecting journalists and media freedom

Commentary

RSF slams ‘outrageous’ failure to bring justice 9 years after killing...

Thai protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok condemn the behaviour of Israeli tourists

Asia Report

‘Take Thailand Back’ – Thais protest against ‘disrespectful’ Israeli tourists in...

Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) with Naoero's Vice-President Lionel Aingimea in Suva earlier this year

Asia Report

‘Easy decision’ – Naoero becomes third Pacific Islands Forum member with...

The Vanuatu ferry MV Matui

Disasters

Vanuatu ferry disaster: ‘It’s a miracle anyone survived,’ says rescuer

EDITOR'S PICKS

President Trump boasts of having the greatest military in the world

Analysis

Why can’t Democrats outshine a dangerous, unstable, delusional, egomaniacal Trump?

Pacific locations could host intelligence and combat-support units

Asia Report

US think tank proposes military shift to Guam, CNMI and Pacific...

New Zealand's news media have been warned

Analysis

NZ elections: Where are much-needed party policies on media?

The Panguna mine arson attack

Bougainville

Two shot, several arrested in clashes after Panguna mine arson

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

President Trump boasts of having the greatest military in the world

Analysis

Why can’t Democrats outshine a dangerous, unstable, delusional, egomaniacal Trump?

Pacific locations could host intelligence and combat-support units

Asia Report

US think tank proposes military shift to Guam, CNMI and Pacific...

New Zealand's news media have been warned

Analysis

NZ elections: Where are much-needed party policies on media?

The Panguna mine arson attack

Bougainville

Two shot, several arrested in clashes after Panguna mine arson