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Drone footage of Atafu, a low-lying motu of Tokelau

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Tokelau airport project scrapped despite multi-million dollar design

January 23, 2026

Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua

Tokelau

Pasifika recipients say King’s Birthday honours not just theirs alone

Fiji's port in the capital of Suva

Tokelau

Fiji slapped with Trump’s highest tariffs among Pacific countries

Vasa Fia Collins

Tokelau

Fa’anānā Efeso Collins – an ‘extraordinary man’, says widow

Tokelau

Efeso Collins . . . ’empowering our rangatahi to think beyond the lines’

Fa'anānā Efeso Collins

Tokelau

Pasifika leaders remember ‘stand-out community leader’ Fa’anānā Efeso Collins

February 22, 2024

A covid-19 vaccination centre on Nukunonu atoll, Tokelau, in August 2021

Tokelau

Entire village tested as covid reaches third Tokelauan atoll

July 18, 2023

Pro-independence Tahitian politician Vannina Crolas

Tokelau

‘We carry the voice of the colonised people’, delegates tell UN

June 24, 2023

Covid reaches Tokelau

Tokelau

Tokelau covid: Two new cases announced as lockdown ends

May 29, 2023

Peace Action cover detail

Tokelau

Lessons from peace activists – and action is up to the...

March 20, 2023

Tokelau elections

Tokelau

Tokelau declares 2023 elections result in spite of comms problems

January 27, 2023

Pacific cyclones

Tokelau

Fiji’s weather bureau predicts up to seven cyclones this season

October 24, 2022

A vaccination centre on Nukunonu, August 2021

Tokelau

Tunoa – house arrest – on Tokelau family ends after more...

September 23, 2022

Taupulega general manager Asi Pasilio

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Tokelau keen to get its people stuck abroad back home again

July 27, 2022

No jails in Tokelau

Tokelau

Tokelau family under house arrest for nearly a year over vaccine...

July 20, 2022

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

Tokelau

‘Calm’ health advocate among 18 Pasifika recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours

June 6, 2022

Coastal flooding in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Tokelau

It’s time to deliver on Pacific climate financing, says Cook Is...

November 10, 2021

Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna

Tokelau

Pacific Forum welcomes NZ climate aid boost, urges collective action

October 19, 2021

Pacific Aftershocks

Tokelau

Aftershocks of covid-19 threaten to undo gains across Pacific, says report

October 18, 2021

NZ Finance Minister Grant Robertson

Tokelau

NZ budget 2021: What does $108m mean for Pasifika ‘wellbeing’?

May 21, 2021

Tokelau

Pacific launches talks about how to reopen amid covid pandemic

August 5, 2020

Cook Islands

Tokelau

Forget Australia, open up to covid-free Pacific bubble, says Cook Islander

June 25, 2020

Tokelau

NZ pledges $1m for WHO in coronavirus support to Pacific

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March 5, 2020

'Bullying' Australia

Tokelau

‘Bullying’ Australia disregards Pacific over climate crisis, says 350 Pacific

Pacific Media Watch -

August 16, 2019

Tokelau

NZ to give $6m boost for USPNet telecommunications upgrade

March 27, 2018

Tokelau

Health risks of climate change ‘earliest, most severe’ for Pacific –...

September 30, 2017

Tokelau

Samoan airline deals at centre of Tokelau chopper purchase

Mackenzie Smith -

June 2, 2017

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

BEARING WITNESS

"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...

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

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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

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A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions

Asia Report

After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos...

Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

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Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

The Iranian Red Crescent reports US and Israeli attacks on areas close to medical and humanitarian facilities

Asia Report

Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu issue advisories amid US-Israeli strikes on Iran

New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie

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‘I know she’d be really proud’ – NZ’s first Pasifika heritage...

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“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF

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War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid...

Mourners dig graves for the funeral of 170 children killed in a US-Israeli strike on a primary school

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This illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran is also an assault on...

Community members in Iowa protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran

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New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa

A mourner holds up a picture of one of the victims of the US-Israeli attack on Iran at Minab

Asia Report

Alternative Jewish Voices: Stop this Iran catastrophe!

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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

“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF

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War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid...

An oil tanker docked at the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand

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US-Israel’s war on Iran – mostly negative scenarios for the Pacific

Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands

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Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum...

Iranians mourning the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster