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Solomon Islands

The ABC’s role in Australia’s Pacific reset – valued and highly trusted

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2022

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Solomon Islands

MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for West Papua

Post-Courier front page 240122

Solomon Islands

Covid-infected PNG doctor arrested in Solomon Islands as border crosser

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Campaign over Solomons media freedom ‘misguided’, claims PM’s office

West Papuan leader Benny Wenda (left) and Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

Indonesia protests over Fiji’s Rabuka backing Papuan independence leader

RSE worker Taylor Crichton and church volunteer Fuimaono Nathan Pulega at Napier

Solomon Islands

Cyclone Gabrielle: Help for more than 400 evacuated Pacific RSE workers

February 22, 2023

Solomon Islands

Asian and Pacific nations struggling over media self-censorship, says RSF

Pacific Media Watch -

April 24, 2019

For Pacific’s women, the toll of runaway temperature increase will be heavy

Solomon Islands

Why Blue Pacific’s infrastructure distress is a cocktail poisoning human development...

November 7, 2025

Solomon Islands

New PM Hou in Solomon Islands pledges to fight corruption

November 15, 2017

Solomon Islands police arrest a suspect

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: 100 arrested as police chief warns ‘nobody above...

November 28, 2021

Fiji Women's Rights Movement executive director Nalini Singh

Solomon Islands

Nalini Singh calls for media coverage that ‘reflects realities of all...

July 13, 2024

Solomon Islands

Sogavare appoints eight new ministers in effort to consolidate government

Pacific Media Watch -

November 2, 2017

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...

October 30, 2024

Solomon Islands

Vlad Sokhin: ‘Warm Waters’ – threat of climate change to low-lying...

June 19, 2016

A training session for the UN Pacific peacekeepers cohort

Solomon Islands

Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region

May 19, 2025

Kanak independence flag

Solomon Islands

‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year

January 1, 2022

NHS pharmacy technician

Solomon Islands

Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific

December 20, 2020

The rise in drug trafficking through Fiji is just one part of a booming trans-Pacific trade

Solomon Islands

Fall of a Fijian trafficker exposes previous government’s blind eye to...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 20, 2023

Solomon Islands

Chinese influence in the Pacific prompts high-level meetings

Pacific Media Watch -

May 28, 2019

Did Xi shoot the Sheriff?

Solomon Islands

Dan McGarry: How to do something about Australia’s Pacific ‘stuff up’

April 21, 2022

PNG Police Commissioner David Manning

Solomon Islands

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

November 30, 2021

Solomon Islands

COP21: Pacific battles for recognition in new Climate Change agreement

December 4, 2015

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

Solomon Islands

Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 2025

Solomon Islands

Solomons to ban Facebook but claims ‘media freedom to remain’

Pacific Media Watch -

November 17, 2020

Get whole story on covid

Solomon Islands

Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation

June 29, 2021

Solomon Islands

Aucklanders warned not to fall into a ‘slumber’ again over covid

October 6, 2020

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force has issued a statement saying Parliament will be closed to the public for the election of the prime minister.

Solomon Islands

Zero tolerance – Solomon Islands police on high alert ahead of...

May 2, 2024

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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

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...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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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

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