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Human rights groups protest over 500 arrests of Papuan demonstrators

December 22, 2016

Honiara's Chinatown in ruins

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: The painful reality – my day on the road in Honiara

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

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands opposition alleges ‘millions’ offered by govt lobbyists to buy back power

Solomon islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Dan McGarry: It’s how, not who in Melanesian politics

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Backlash after Solomons government reins in public broadcaster

Pacific Media Watch -

August 6, 2022

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion

May 6, 2026

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

Chinese sulky silence with Pacific media

Solomon Islands

How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom

July 14, 2022

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

The leaked drafts are just that: drafts

Solomon Islands

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

May 27, 2022

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

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

August 3, 2022

Solomon Islands

Pacific public health warning over Zika virus infection

January 30, 2016

Solomon Islands

Pacific Islanders debate paradox of ‘Oceanianism’ and global citizens

Shailendra Singh -

January 29, 2016

Pacific Capture

Solomon Islands

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

August 24, 2022

Solomon Islands

US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017

January 21, 2016

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands arms police force after 14 years

Pacific Media Watch -

May 17, 2017

A training session for the UN Pacific peacekeepers cohort

Solomon Islands

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

May 19, 2025

Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau

Solomon Islands

MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau

August 24, 2023

Although New Caledonia is one of New Zealand’s closest neighbours, the French colony feels very isolated from the rest of the Pacific

Solomon Islands

While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 26, 2025

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, Vanuatu promote MSG support for West Papua

May 13, 2016

Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare reassures Solomon Islands on health of 6 covid positive students

September 13, 2020

Solomon Islands

Challenging start to the year in Asia-Pacific free expression

February 1, 2016

Solomon Islands

New Pacific report on illegal tuna fishing for frontline officials

March 10, 2016

Solomon Islands

Human rights groups protest over 500 arrests of Papuan demonstrators

December 22, 2016

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

‘Don’t enter Solomon Islands’ pleads Sogavare with Bougainvilleans

January 12, 2022

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Solomon slands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

In the Solomon Islands, Wong takes first tentative steps in repairing...

June 20, 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

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

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

Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Kalani Kaneko (second from right) has been leading advocacy for island US military veterans

Civil Society

Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive

The AI-generated fake footage on Instagram shared by an Indonesian nationalist account @bersamaastacita showing Koteka Wenda speaking out

Asia Report

‘Digital colonisation’ – West Papuan activist targeted in fake AI-generated reel

US target on leftwing streamer Hasan Piker and antiwar activist Medea Benjamin

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Yet another escalation in the empire’s war on activism...

Cuban doctors arriving back from Italy following the covid outbreak in 2020

Analysis

The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Sydney CAM Rally . . . CAM uses tactics including social media, lobbying politicians and convening conferences to relentlessly pursue its goal of entrenching the IHRA definition of antisemitism into policy at all levels

Analysis

Australia’s Combat Antisemitism Movement keeps slaying social cohesion

Australian protesters condemn the torture of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails at a demonstration in Adelaide, South Australia, in December 2025

Analysis

US-built ‘torture ship’ and US funding played role in kidnapping, torture...

The AI-generated fake footage on Instagram shared by an Indonesian nationalist account @bersamaastacita showing Koteka Wenda speaking out

Asia Report

‘Digital colonisation’ – West Papuan activist targeted in fake AI-generated reel

Gaza freedom flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby (right) being welcomed home at Auckland International Airport on Sunday

Asia Report

Kidnapped Kiwi Gaza flotilla detainee condemns brutal Israeli torture

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

Australian protesters condemn the torture of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails at a demonstration in Adelaide, South Australia, in December 2025

Analysis

US-built ‘torture ship’ and US funding played role in kidnapping, torture...

The AI-generated fake footage on Instagram shared by an Indonesian nationalist account @bersamaastacita showing Koteka Wenda speaking out

Asia Report

‘Digital colonisation’ – West Papuan activist targeted in fake AI-generated reel

Gaza freedom flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby (right) being welcomed home at Auckland International Airport on Sunday

Asia Report

Kidnapped Kiwi Gaza flotilla detainee condemns brutal Israeli torture

Moana Pasifika captain Miracle Fai'ilagi (centre) with head coach Tana Umaga (right) and talent manager Kevin Senio

Culture

Moana Pasifika captain hopeful their final whistle hasn’t blown yet