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Huge rallies across West Papua region in support of MSG membership

Solomon Islands

Wenda accuses Jakarta of crackdown in response to Papuan MSG rallies

July 31, 2023

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

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

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 PM election

Huge container ships carrying import and export marine cargo loads

Solomon Islands

UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’

The authorities deal with the stabbing attack at Bloody Ridge, Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Japanese sailor stabbed during Guadalcanal remembrance event

Solomon Islanders queuing up to cast their ballots

Solomon Islands

‘The right person’: What did Solomon Islanders vote for?

April 18, 2024

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

New Zealand forces deployed to Solomon Islands in wake of riots

December 1, 2021

Policed bomb disposal unit in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Fatal Solomon Is blast highlights key threat in country littered with...

May 11, 2021

Solomon Islands

Candidates for Solomon Islands PM announced amid ‘political turbulence’

Pacific Media Watch -

November 14, 2017

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

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

Pacific Media Watch -

April 24, 2019

Covid-19 vaccinations being given in Vanuatu

Solomon Islands

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

January 30, 2022

Former Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman

Solomon Islands

Accepting Indonesia into MSG ‘a mistake’, admits Natuman

February 10, 2023

Fijian troops being briefed

Solomon Islands

50 Fiji troops join Australian, PNG forces boosting Honiara security

November 30, 2021

Chinese sulky silence with Pacific media

Solomon Islands

How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom

July 14, 2022

Solomon Islands

NZ aid workers’ open letter condemns broadcaster for Pacific ‘leeches’ attack

Pacific Media Watch -

September 21, 2018

West Papuans rally in support of full membershio of the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Solomon Islands

Wenda slams ‘grave abuses’ against Papuan activists at MSG demos

July 14, 2023

Solomon Islands

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

Pacific Media Watch -

November 17, 2020

Pacific Affairs Minister Aupito William Sio

Solomon Islands

Aupito heads to Fiji as government faces pressure over China strategy

May 31, 2022

Cleaning up the gutted Kukum traffic police station

Solomon Islands

Buildings burned in looting after Solomon Islands protest

November 24, 2021

Solomon Islands

Digital broadcasting switchover starts for Pacific nations

Pacific Media Centre -

September 26, 2015

Honiara's Chinatown in ruins

Solomon Islands

Defiant Sogavare vows he will not resign in wake of riots

November 25, 2021

Get whole story on covid

Solomon Islands

Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation

June 29, 2021

Pacific Islands Forum member flags

Solomon Islands

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

August 7, 2026

Post-Courier front page 240122

Solomon Islands

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

January 24, 2022

Solomon Islands

NZ and Pacific countries contest Asian influence for WHO regional director

August 20, 2018

Multichannel approach by ABC

Solomon Islands

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

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 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

Cook Islands caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown and US Ambassador Jared Novelly exchange gifts

Cook Islands

‘Teeming with life’: Cook Islands officials enthuse over NOAA deep dive

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...

Trapped Palestinian Refqa Hassan watches as Israeli settlers have besieged her family home

Asia Report

Qusra siege by Israeli settler ‘terrorists’ in West Bank persists despite...

EDITOR'S PICKS

NSW Premier Chris Minns

Asia Report

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

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...

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

NSW Premier Chris Minns

Asia Report

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

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...