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Pacific Island fuel prices are generally high and volatile

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‘A global energy crisis’ – Fuel price hike looms for Pacific amid Iran war

March 4, 2026

AJ+ senior presenter/producer Dena Takruri

Vanuatu

How Israel won the Pacific – and its backing at the UN

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

Vanuatu

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

Pacific climate digital strategy for the International Court of Justice

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Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Vanuatu

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire edition

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

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Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

September 17, 2024

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OPM calls for decolonisation of West Papua, condemns UN ‘collusion’

September 15, 2023

MSG leaders sign the two declarations - on climate crisis and subregional security

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MSG leaders defer Papua membership decision to Pacific Islands Forum

August 25, 2023

Fiji Airways Airbus A330 cabin

Vanuatu

Bonds, blockings and bans – a massive new-year US shakeup for...

January 17, 2026

Double standards over West Papua

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‘Double standards’ claims as world reacts to Ukraine crisis, ignores Papua

March 4, 2022

Former Vanuatu prime minister Barak Sope

Vanuatu

Wenda calls on MSG for urgent action to back pledge over...

August 27, 2023

Vanuatu's new Prime Minister Jotham Napat

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Vanuatu parliament elects Jotham Napat as new prime minister

February 11, 2025

Huge rallies across West Papua region in support of MSG membership

Vanuatu

Wenda accuses Jakarta of crackdown in response to Papuan MSG ...

July 31, 2023

The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025

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Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

March 5, 2025

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Vanuatu evacuates 8000 villagers on Ambae as volcano erupts

September 24, 2017

Pacific flags -- Fiji and Tonga -- and protesters in support of Palestine at a rally in New Zealand's largest city Auckland

Vanuatu

Seven Pacific no votes in ‘historic’ UN General Assembly demand for...

September 19, 2024

For Pacific’s women, the toll of runaway temperature increase will be heavy

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Why Blue Pacific’s infrastructure distress is a cocktail poisoning human development...

November 7, 2025

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

Vanuatu

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

June 27, 2024

ULMWP president Benny Wenda

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Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false

April 8, 2024

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Vanuatu awaits the Oscars with high hopes for love story Tanna

Pacific Media Watch -

February 27, 2017

Vanuatu's resigned opposition leader Ishmael Kalsakau

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Vanuatu’s Kalsakau resigns, calls for delay on constitutional referendum

May 3, 2024

A West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence flies higm among dozens of climate activists - from both the Netherlands and abroad - gathered on a square outside the court

Vanuatu

UN’s highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for...

July 24, 2025

Voreqe Bainimarama, prime minister of Fiji until December 2022

Vanuatu

Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets

Pacific Media Watch -

May 4, 2024

Vanuatu's Climate Minister Ralph Regenvanu talks to the media

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Historic ICJ climate ruling ‘just the beginning’, says Vanuatu’s Regenvanu

July 25, 2025

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

Vanuatu

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

June 10, 2025

Palestine - "a moral litmus test for the world"

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Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024

January 3, 2025

Rescue operations underway on a commercial building flattened by the earthquake in Vanuatu 17 Dec 2024

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Buildings ‘pancaked’ in Vanuatu as 7.3 magnitude quake strikes off capital...

December 17, 2024

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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

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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

Vanuatu

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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Tweets by DavidRobie

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

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

Asia Report

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...

Union organiser and socialist Joe Carolan speaking at an anti-war rally

Asia Report

US-Israeli war on Iran confusion clouds ‘off-ramp’ hope, says analyst

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

Analysis

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

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

Analysis

’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace

Analysis

West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid

Curse of Gold

Asia Report

Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

Analysis

’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

Asia Report

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...

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

Union organiser and socialist Joe Carolan speaking at an anti-war rally

Asia Report

US-Israeli war on Iran confusion clouds ‘off-ramp’ hope, says analyst

The mainstream media is doing what it always does in wartime: manufacturing consent, sanitizing atrocities and platforming war criminals

Analysis

The reporting on Iran and Gaza the US-Israel war machine can’t...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace

Analysis

West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

Analysis

’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...