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COP21: Politicians leading world to ‘very dangerous future’, says Naomi Klein

December 5, 2015

Early morning sun as citizens of Solomon Islands go about their day lobbying

Solomon Islands

No clear winner as lobbying to form next Solomon Islands government intensifies

The Pacific 2025 year ahead

Solomon Islands

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

Huge rallies across West Papua region in support of MSG membership

Solomon Islands

Wenda accuses Jakarta of crackdown in response to Papuan MSG rallies

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (second from left) and other Melanesian leaders at the MSG summit

Solomon Islands

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders discuss Middle East conflict before ceasefire

Did Xi shoot the Sheriff?

Solomon Islands

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

April 21, 2022

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Solomon Islands

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

Pacific Media Watch -

May 8, 2026

Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping . . . under fire for lack of transparency over nine deals

Solomon Islands

Solomons PM’s ‘I’m back home’ comment in Beijing ‘shameful’, says Wale

July 12, 2023

Miss Pacific Islands 2025, Litara Ieremia-Allan (left)

Solomon Islands

‘Damage has been done’ – Miss Pacific pageant statement too late,...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 14, 2025

Solomon Islands

Westminster meeting makes new declaration for West Papua’s future

May 4, 2016

The Melanesian Spearhead Secretariat office in Port Vila

Solomon Islands

West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG

June 6, 2023

Solomon Islands

Pacific knowledge, smart media used to tackle mosquito-borne diseases

February 1, 2018

Members of RAMSI military destroy surrendered weapons

Solomon Islands

Transform Aqorau: Rethinking Solomon Islands security – focus on arms unsustainable

April 5, 2022

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

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

June 26, 2025

Cyclone Maila damage in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Ten dead in Bougainville amid Cyclone Maila aftermath

April 13, 2026

Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and PIF Secretary General Baron Waqa

Solomon Islands

Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia

August 11, 2024

Fijians in the capital Suva celebrate the end of 16 years of authoritarian rule - eight years of military dictatorship followed by a rigid "democracy".

Solomon Islands

David Robie: 2022 Pacific political upheavals eclipse Tongan volcano

December 31, 2022

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

Solomon Islands

Rabuka backs call for West Papuan independence group to fully join...

February 24, 2023

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Solomon Islands

MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for...

August 26, 2023

Moonset after TC Harold

Solomon Islands

When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus

April 22, 2020

Kanak independence flag

Solomon Islands

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

January 1, 2022

Solomon Islands police arrest a suspect

Solomon Islands

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

November 28, 2021

Solomon Islands

USP journo students return from Solomons climate storytelling project

Michael Andrew -

July 2, 2019

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare hails ‘new approach’ on West Papua – Wale calls PM...

September 28, 2023

Solomon Islands

Pacific public health warning over Zika virus infection

January 30, 2016

Honiara lockdown

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands imposes 60 hour Honiara lockdown over covid outbreak

January 20, 2022

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands orders national broadcaster SIBC to ‘self-censor news’

August 3, 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

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

Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao

Disasters

Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

The United Kingdom, France and Canada announced they would ban imports of Israeli products which originated from the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank

Asia Report

Peters’ ‘hot air’ over Israeli settlement trade ban rules out of...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Editor's Picks

Rabuka calls on Fijians to use freedom of expression ‘responsibly’

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Analysis

Pacific Islands Forum: Is Australia out of touch with the Pacific...

EDITOR'S PICKS

New Zealand's news media have been warned

Analysis

NZ elections: Where are much-needed party policies on media?

The Panguna mine arson attack

Bougainville

Two shot, several arrested in clashes after Panguna mine arson

Palestinian media political prisoners

Asia Report

37 Palestinian journalists imprisoned in Israeli jails, says prisoner rights group

About 12,000 people are now believed to be living with HIV in Fiji

Development

‘Horrendously high’ number of HIV infections in Fiji babies – health...

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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

New Zealand's news media have been warned

Analysis

NZ elections: Where are much-needed party policies on media?

The Panguna mine arson attack

Bougainville

Two shot, several arrested in clashes after Panguna mine arson

Palestinian media political prisoners

Asia Report

37 Palestinian journalists imprisoned in Israeli jails, says prisoner rights group

About 12,000 people are now believed to be living with HIV in Fiji

Development

‘Horrendously high’ number of HIV infections in Fiji babies – health...