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The Pacific 2025 year ahead

Solomon Islands

Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year

January 4, 2025

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

Former Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Solomon Islands

Former Solomons PM says country needs economic solution not security

Republic of Marshall Islands President David Kabua

Solomon Islands

‘Our future looks secure’, says Puna on Pacific Islands Forum unity

Solomon Islands

Solomons police call for calm to counter riots after PM elected

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

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

March 23, 2026

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

Solomon Islands

Pacific Islands Forum leaders advance discussions on regional reforms

March 28, 2025

Post-Courier front page 240122

Solomon Islands

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

January 24, 2022

Royal Solomon Islands Police Force officers train with replica guns supplied by the Chinese government

Solomon Islands

Leaked draft China-Solomon Islands security pact causes Pacific stir

March 25, 2022

Cyclone Maila damage in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Ten dead in Bougainville amid Cyclone Maila aftermath

April 13, 2026

Solomon Islands

Students gear up for first national live election broadcast with The...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 30, 2019

Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare reassures Solomon Islands on health of 6 covid positive students

September 13, 2020

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm...

May 16, 2026

Covid-19 vaccinations being given in Vanuatu

Solomon Islands

Vaccine inequity in the Pacific: ‘We need to support our neighbours’

January 30, 2022

Solomon Islands

Tokelau’s new ferry Mataliki slips quietly into Apia port

February 4, 2016

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden

Solomon Islands

As Australia signs up for nuclear subs, NZ faces hard decisions...

March 18, 2023

A New Zealand news report on the Middle East conflict on 1News

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islanders safe but unable to leave Israel amid war on...

June 18, 2025

Pacific Capture

Solomon Islands

ABC blasts Honiara for ‘factual errors’ in attack over Pacific Capture...

August 24, 2022

Masi president Georgina Kekea

Solomon Islands

‘Respect’ work of journalists and media, Masi tells Solomons police

Pacific Media Watch -

April 21, 2022

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

Solomon Islands

Melanesian Spearhead Group summit postponed – West Papua uncertain

July 19, 2023

Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM challenges court order to face no-confidence vote within...

April 15, 2026

Papuan Student Association Oceania musicians

Solomon Islands

‘Forgotten’ Melanesians host their first cultural festival in Aotearoa

October 23, 2022

Fiji protesters in support of a "Free West Papua"

Solomon Islands

Fiji human rights coalition challenges Rabuka over decolonisation ‘unfinished business’

June 30, 2025

Solomon Islands

WJEC16: Pacific media educators struggle to find answers for common problems

July 16, 2016

Solomon Islands

Candidates for Solomon Islands PM announced amid ‘political turbulence’

Pacific Media Watch -

November 14, 2017

Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

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

October 4, 2022

Pacific Islands Forum member flags

Solomon Islands

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

August 7, 2026

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
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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

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt

Democracy

Samoa government urged at UN to address declining media freedom

Fiji Military commander Major-General Jone Kalouniwai

Democracy

Fiji military chief urges accountability to the people amid coup immunity...

A press conference at the Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua) office in Jayapura on 2 November 2026 discussing the shooting of three civilians in Nduga Regency on 23 October 2026

Decolonisation

Nduga shooting victims’ families ask Papua Legal Aid Institute to oversee...

US midterm elections in the Pacific

American Samoa

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Jesus wept – Pacific Forum endorses Israel and genocide

Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Analysis

‘Foreign agency’ – Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal is a US...

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt

Democracy

Samoa government urged at UN to address declining media freedom

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under fire

Asia Report

‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

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

Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Jesus wept – Pacific Forum endorses Israel and genocide

Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Analysis

‘Foreign agency’ – Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal is a US...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under fire

Asia Report

‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

Asia Report

PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...