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‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of Honiara riots

April 25, 2019

Malaita province Premier Daniel Suidani

Solomon Islands

Malaita plans self-determination poll to see if it’s ‘still in the mind’

A member of the Police Response Team in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

‘Not an attempt to militarise our nation’ – Solomon Islands considers own military

Pacific Islands Forum "troika-plus" leaders have visited Kanaky New Caledonia on a fact-finding mission

Solomon Islands

Pacific leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at ‘turning point’

Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting 2026 in Suva

Solomon Islands

Pacific Islands Forum fails to reach consensus on anti-missile statement against China

A member of the Police Response Team in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

‘Not an attempt to militarise our nation’ – Solomon Islands considers...

October 21, 2025

Solomon Islands

Pacific journalists make human rights declaration for ‘voiceless’

April 16, 2016

An Australian soldier on patrol in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: China mouthpiece blames Australia for ‘fomenting riots’

November 29, 2021

Solomon Islands voters board the MV Taimareho 1

Solomon Islands

Ships in the night – final day of election campaigning in...

April 15, 2024

Douglas Marau

Solomon Islands

Wendy Amangongo: Where is MASI over the Solomons Facebook ban?

Pacific Media Watch -

November 21, 2020

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 Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Prime Minister Manele holds firm as opposition claims majority in Solomon...

March 23, 2026

Solomon Islands

USP journo students return from Solomons climate storytelling project

Michael Andrew -

July 2, 2019

Newspaper street vendors in Honiara.

Solomon Islands

How China is manipulating the information war in the Pacific

March 17, 2022

Solomon Islands

Manasseh Sogavare elected Solomon Islands PM for fourth time

April 24, 2019

Fiji anti-corruption will declining

Solomon Islands

An update on the ‘good governance coup’ – political will, corruption...

December 9, 2022

The Iranian Red Crescent reports US and Israeli attacks on areas close to medical and humanitarian facilities

Solomon Islands

Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu issue advisories amid US-Israeli strikes on Iran

March 2, 2026

Honiara's Chinatown in ruins

Solomon Islands

Defiant Sogavare vows he will not resign in wake of riots

November 25, 2021

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Backlash after Solomons government reins in public broadcaster

Pacific Media Watch -

August 6, 2022

Helen Clark

Solomon Islands

NZ must help Solomon Islands tackle unemployment ‘time bomb’, says Clark

Jessica Marshall -

September 2, 2018

Solomon Islands

Joey Tau: Can the MSG bloc walk out on the PACER-Plus...

June 13, 2017

Solomon Islands

Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: The desecration of Oceania’s sacred place of learning

June 14, 2020

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Solomon Islands

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

August 26, 2023

Solomon Islands

West Papuans in Vanuatu reject Jakarta response to Solomons PM

May 25, 2016

New Zealand Defence Force troops in Honiara

Solomon Islands

More NZ peacekeepers arrive to help defuse tensions in Solomon Islands

December 5, 2021

Pacific flags . . . advancing advance discussions on the the Blue Pacific

Solomon Islands

Pacific Islands Forum leaders advance discussions on regional reforms

March 28, 2025

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare denies ‘insulting’ claim on Chinese military base for Solomons

March 29, 2022

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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...

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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

112 members of two Palestinian families - Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia - have been buried in Gaza

Asia Report

Gaza genocide: Mourning the 112 victims of two families of Israeli...

An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo

political parties appear to have lost their "attraction, drawcard and magic touch".

Cook Islands

Cook Islands election: ‘The political party system is facing extinction’

Counsel Assisting before Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’

EDITOR'S PICKS

Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting 2026 in Suva

Solomon Islands

Pacific Islands Forum fails to reach consensus on anti-missile statement against...

Counsel Assisting before Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’

The Democrat voters chose Dr Abdul El-Sayed because he’s a fighter

Analysis

El-Sayed’s Michigan primary win against tyranny a good omen for a...

Pacific Islands Forum member flags

Solomon Islands

Pacific foreign ministers to discuss Solomons’ idea for regional security treaty

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

Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting 2026 in Suva

Solomon Islands

Pacific Islands Forum fails to reach consensus on anti-missile statement against...

Counsel Assisting before Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’

The Democrat voters chose Dr Abdul El-Sayed because he’s a fighter

Analysis

El-Sayed’s Michigan primary win against tyranny a good omen for a...

Pacific Islands Forum member flags

Solomon Islands

Pacific foreign ministers to discuss Solomons’ idea for regional security treaty