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COP21: Pacific battles for recognition in new Climate Change agreement

December 4, 2015

Solomon Islands

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

Fiji protesters in support of a "Free West Papua"

Solomon Islands

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

Solomon Islands

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

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Solomon Islands

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

Flashback to the Honiara riots

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands political battle ends with Sogavare winning confidence vote

December 7, 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

Multichannel approach by ABC

Solomon Islands

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

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2022

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

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

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

August 3, 2022

When Omicron arrived in Australia

Solomon Islands

What New Zealand can learn from omicron outbreak in Australia

January 29, 2022

A View From Afar

Solomon Islands

A View From Afar: How covid-19 has become a trigger of...

August 12, 2021

Victoria University's Nanai Anae Dr Iati Iati

Solomon Islands

New Zealand framing China as ‘the devil’ insincere, says Pacific lecturer

June 29, 2024

Royal Solomon Islands Police Force

Solomon Islands

Malaita’s M4D group declared illegal for alleged role in Solomons riots

December 9, 2021

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Solomon Islands

Top level Chinese delegation headed to Kiribati – questions over Kanton

May 25, 2022

Solomon Islands police arrest a suspect

Solomon Islands

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

November 28, 2021

Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare reassures Solomon Islands on health of 6 covid positive students

September 13, 2020

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

Solomon Islands

Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 2025

Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025

Solomon Islands

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 11, 2026

Solomon Islands

PNG orders lockdown from tomorrow as Covid-19 response ramps up

March 23, 2020

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

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

March 23, 2026

Wutung PNG border post

Solomon Islands

Pacific coronavirus: Cases jump to 26 across the region

Sri Krishnamurthi -

March 20, 2020

Australian infantry in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars

April 26, 2023

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

‘Don’t surrender’ to Indonesian pressure over West Papua, Bomanak warns MSG

June 26, 2025

Solomon Islands

Challenging start to the year in Asia-Pacific free expression

February 1, 2016

Solomon Islands capital Honiara

Solomon Islands

US issues vague warning ‘to respond’ if China builds military base...

April 27, 2022

PNG Police Commissioner David Manning

Solomon Islands

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

November 30, 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

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...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

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

In late-June, PNG Prime Minister James Marape instructed all provinces

Climate

‘On another scale’ – PNG province unprepared for El Niño impacts,...

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with extended whānau - family (he is pictured fourth from left)

Analysis

Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s...

Killed Fiji military detainee Jone Vakarisi

Crime

Four months on, still no charges in death of man in...

Democratic Party leader Tina Pupuke-Browne

Cook Islands

Democratic Party pledges ‘honest review’ after preliminary election wipeout in Cook...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

Analysis

Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

Australia's march for humanity and an end to Israel's Gaza genocide

Asia Report

Australia, don’t be surprised. Israel does this to Palestinians all the...

The number of Fijians who are HIV positive has risen to at least 9000

Editor's Picks

Fiji’s HIV epidemic has yet to reach a ‘turning point’, warns...

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

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

Analysis

Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians

Commentary

‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...

Australia's march for humanity and an end to Israel's Gaza genocide

Asia Report

Australia, don’t be surprised. Israel does this to Palestinians all the...