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The tsunami waves, caused by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia, have now rolled on southeastward toward South America

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Pacific avoids major damage after powerful quake off Russia

July 31, 2025

"Hot off the press" . . . David Robie talks Eyes of Fire just after receiving the first copy of his book marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985

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David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers

"Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995"

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NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III today commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira on 10 July 1985

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Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on

One of many Rongelap people who had to leave their ancestral home via the Rainbow Warrior due to nuclear

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Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior is a timely reminder

The Castle Bravo test was 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima

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The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific...

July 7, 2025

The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning

Tahiti

The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...

July 3, 2025

Investigative journalist Richard Baker's SBS "Fallout" podcast on the Rainbow Warrior and the Norfolk Island connection

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Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast

Pacific Media Watch -

July 3, 2025

Te Mareikura Whakataka Brightwell

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Tahiti prepares for its first Matari’i public holiday

June 30, 2025

The Gambier Islands

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French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

June 11, 2025

Drones light up the night sky in Nice with a "One Ocean" message as a prelude to the UN Oceans conference

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Pacific civil society groups challenge France over hosting UN oceans event...

June 10, 2025

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

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

April 14, 2025

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle

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France plans to deploy flagship carrier Charles de Gaulle to Pacific...

January 12, 2025

The Pacific 2025 year ahead

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Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set...

January 4, 2025

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...

November 7, 2024

French Polynesian President Moetai Brotherson

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Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN

October 11, 2024

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Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership

August 12, 2024

Tahitian surfer Kauli Vaast

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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French elections: First round of Pacific results show polarisation

July 1, 2024

Pacific journalism author and educator Dr David Robie

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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

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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

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French Pacific prepares for snap elections with mixed expectations

June 13, 2024

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

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

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?

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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

Part of the pro-Palestinian protest march on Sydney Harbour Bridge today, calling for an end to the genocide and starvation by Israel

Asia Report

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joins Sydney Gaza humanitarian protest as thousands...

Two of New Caledonia’s pro-independence Union Calédonienne leaders Emmanuel Tjibaou (left) and Dominique Fochi holding a press conference in Nouméa

Decolonisation

New Caledonia’s oldest party for independence rejects ‘Bougival’ deal

The lone building left standing from the US nuclear bomb attack on 3 August 1945 that later became the Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Analysis

Hiroshima 80 years on – why AUKUS is imperial madness and...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters with Minister for Pacific Peoples Shane Reti celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Cook Islands constitution in Tāmaki Makaurau

China

‘Right to choose’ key to Cook Islands-NZ relationship, says Peters

EDITOR'S PICKS

Dramatic increases in food prices always mean there is a famine, even though not every famine is accompanied by rising food costs

Analysis

Soaring food prices prove the Gaza famine is real – and...

Progressive journalist and presenter Mehdi Hasan

Decolonisation

Debunked – Israel’s top 10 lies on Gaza, as exposed by...

An Uncle Sam puppet with blood on his hands held aloft by pro-Palestinian protesters in Auckland, New Zealand

Asia Report

Israel backing Gaza ‘gangs’ to create unlivable chaos, says academic

New Zealand protesters at the weekly demonstration against the Israeli genocide in Gaza in Auckland

Asia Report

Bloodshed at GHF-run Gaza aid sites ‘a great sin’, says former...

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

New Zealand's planned fisheries laws changes "spell disaster for the already struggling ocean around us"

Environment

Greenpeace condemns NZ’s ‘dodgy reforms’ plan weakening ocean protection

Dramatic increases in food prices always mean there is a famine, even though not every famine is accompanied by rising food costs

Analysis

Soaring food prices prove the Gaza famine is real – and...

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

China

Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

Incarcerated Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti

Asia Report

Eugene Doyle: Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti