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Fans at the FIFA World Football Cup semifinal match between Spain and Sweden at Auckland's Eden Park last night

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FIFA boss wraps up trailblazing Pacific tour with stop in New Caledonia

August 16, 2023

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Resource rich economies dwarf the region, ADB conference told

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West Papuans in Vanuatu reject Jakarta response to Solomons PM

Australian infantry in Papua New Guinea

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Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars

Angie Enoka

Solomon Islands

Give RSE workers a media ‘voice’ and ask hard questions, says researcher

Matteo, a young Mā'ohi soldier from Tahiti, preparing for the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris.

Solomon Islands

Bastille Day message: Paris must ‘re-arm in Pacific’, says commander

July 14, 2022

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Imrana Jalal: Paradise lost – shocking report on Pacific violence against...

April 1, 2016

Fijian troops being briefed

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50 Fiji troops join Australian, PNG forces boosting Honiara security

November 30, 2021

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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

July 8, 2026

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Digital broadcasting switchover starts for Pacific nations

Pacific Media Centre -

September 26, 2015

Coverage of decolonisation in the Pacific, the lack of women's representation in parliaments

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Independent Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts

Pacific Media Watch -

June 5, 2025

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USP journo students head to Solomons for environmental reporting project

June 25, 2019

The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025

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Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

March 5, 2025

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

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Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 2025

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Manasseh Sogavare unleashes on Solomon Islands government over US agreement

August 6, 2026

SI Minister of Health Culwick Togamana

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Covid-19: Three more deaths in Solomons as outbreak ‘overwhelms’ health staff

January 28, 2022

Flashback to the Honiara riots

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Solomon Islands political battle ends with Sogavare winning confidence vote

December 7, 2021

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

April 25, 2019

The Solomon Star office in Honiara

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Solomon Star promised to ‘promote China’ in return for funding

Pacific Media Watch -

July 31, 2023

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Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners

May 30, 2019

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Tokelau’s new ferry Mataliki slips quietly into Apia port

February 4, 2016

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Data collection on children in Pacific ‘poor’, says UNICEF

March 16, 2018

Australian mentor Bob Howarth with journalists in Timor-Leste

Solomon Islands

Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 15, 2025

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

Solomon Islands

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

August 22, 2023

When Omicron arrived in Australia

Solomon Islands

What New Zealand can learn from omicron outbreak in Australia

January 29, 2022

The Pacific stupor/amnesia

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Canberra must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 20, 2022

Get whole story on covid

Solomon Islands

Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation

June 29, 2021

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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

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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

A Rising Tide climate protest with a Newcastle Port blockade

Australia

Australia, world leader in arresting climate protesters, drops 130 charges

ABC people get replaced by non-ABC people - and sooner rather than later we have Sinophobic news specials

Analysis

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible...

Iranian Kiwi Seyed Derhany

Asia Report

‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned...

Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting 2026 in Suva

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

EDITOR'S PICKS

An Iranian naval speedboat patrolling the Strait of Hormuz

Asia Report

The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

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

Fiji has been an independent nation since 1970 and a republic since 1987

Analysis

Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad: Fiji’s flag – a conversation we must have

Some Americans are fighting every day to save the babies of Cuba

Analysis

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

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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

An Iranian naval speedboat patrolling the Strait of Hormuz

Asia Report

The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

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

Fiji has been an independent nation since 1970 and a republic since 1987

Analysis

Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad: Fiji’s flag – a conversation we must have

Some Americans are fighting every day to save the babies of Cuba

Analysis

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles