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A poster highlighting the issue of political prisoners depicting the Kanak flag after the pro-independence unrest and riots

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New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili

May 21, 2025

All of New Caledonia’s political parties engaged in a video conference with French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls

Tahiti

Leaked ‘working paper’ on New Caledonia’s political future sparks new concerns

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle

Tahiti

France plans to deploy flagship carrier Charles de Gaulle to Pacific this year

The Pacific 2025 year ahead

Tahiti

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

Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross received the Nuclear-free Future Award in New York on 28 November 2023

Tahiti

Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and limited compensation

French Polynesian President Moetai Brotherson

Tahiti

Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN

October 11, 2024

Tahiti

Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership

August 12, 2024

Tahitian surfer Kauli Vaast

Tahiti

French Polynesia’s homeboy ‘King of Teahupo’o’ wins Olympic surf gold

August 6, 2024

This New York Times “poisoned paradise” story stirred a response

Tahiti

Tahitians angry over New York Times Olympic ‘Poisoned Paradise’ story

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2024

The Aranui, Tahiti's floating Olympic village and hotel for the surfing event

Tahiti

Paris Olympics in Tahiti: Surfing by day, luxury floating at night

July 28, 2024

Tahiti's veteran politician Gaston Flosse (left) with Bruno Sandras, vice-president of the Amuitahiraa o te Nunaa Maohi party

Tahiti

Tahiti’s ‘old lion’ Gaston Flosse, 93, steps down after 52 years...

July 21, 2024

Asia Pacific Media Network's Dr David Robie talks to PMN's Pacific Mornings

Tahiti

David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 4, 2024

First round provisional results in New Caledonia in the French snap elections

Tahiti

French elections: First round of Pacific results show polarisation

July 1, 2024

Pacific journalism author and educator Dr David Robie

Tahiti

Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific

Pacific Media Watch -

June 29, 2024

Former Green parliamentarian and political activist Keith Locke at a Waihopai protest

Tahiti

How former Greens MP Keith Locke often became a voice for...

June 27, 2024

French Polynesia’s pro-France party leaders, including Edouard Fritch (left, standing) are holding back-to-back meetings

Tahiti

French Pacific prepares for snap elections with mixed expectations

June 13, 2024

Protesters paying homage to the young Kanak martyrs killed in the Kanaky New Caledonia unrest

Tahiti

Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Fiji, PNG call for UN decolonisation mission

June 13, 2024

Kanaky for independence from France

Tahiti

New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia

May 28, 2024

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Tahiti

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

March 13, 2024

French Pacific Regiment marine

Tahiti

Macron defends Indo-Pacific stance – now ‘consolidated’ in Oceania

January 28, 2024

Veteran Tahitian independence leader Oscar Temaru with his wife Marie at the UN

Tahiti

France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia

October 5, 2023

French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu

Tahiti

France to host Pacific defence ministers in New Caledonia ‘hub’ meeting

October 3, 2023

Resigned pro-France political leader in New Caledonia Sonia Backès

Tahiti

New Caledonia’s Backès resigns from French govt after losing Senate vote

September 28, 2023

French journalist Ariane Lavrilleux

Tahiti

IPI condemns arrest of investigative journalist Ariane Lavrilleux over ‘Egypt papers’

Pacific Media Watch -

September 23, 2023

The French and Fiji flags

Tahiti

France aims to boost Pacific ‘cultural diplomacy’ with French lessons in...

August 21, 2023

Fans at the FIFA World Football Cup semifinal match between Spain and Sweden at Auckland's Eden Park last night

Tahiti

FIFA boss wraps up trailblazing Pacific tour with stop in New...

August 16, 2023

The image on one of the French media stories about Kanak sexual violence allegations based on reports challenged

Tahiti

Open letter criticises ‘colonial’ French agency, media over Kanaky sexual violence...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 15, 2023

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

Tahiti

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

BEARING WITNESS

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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

New Zealand's Governor-General, Dame Cindy Kiro, with journalist and educator Dr David Robie at the investiture ceremony

Civil Society

Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism

A growing list of countries -- including New Zealand and Australia -- have denounced Israel's weaponising of aid

Asia Report

Australia’s Wong condemns ‘abhorrent, outrageous’ Israeli comments over blocked aid

A truck laden with humanitarian aid for Gaza

Asia Report

PSNA condemns NZ’s ‘indifference to mass murder’ as Israel blocks aid...

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

Analysis

Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

EDITOR'S PICKS

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Decolonisation

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

Analysis

Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini

Civil Society

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies

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

Decolonisation

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

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

A truck laden with humanitarian aid for Gaza

Asia Report

PSNA condemns NZ’s ‘indifference to mass murder’ as Israel blocks aid...

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Decolonisation

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini

Civil Society

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies

Deputy Chief Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan

Asia Report

Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at...