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New National Federation Party president Pramod Chand (left) welcomes Professor Steven Ratuva

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Threat of another coup still ‘one of biggest dangers’ for Fiji, says Ratuva

August 30, 2023

Australian mentor Bob Howarth with journalists in Timor-Leste

Pacific Voices

Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture

Alleged Asian pirates intercepted and arrested by a PNG Navy boat in 2020

Pacific Voices

PNG Post-Courier: Time to consider piracy as a serious issue

The Rainbow Warrior ship entering port in Majuro, Marshall Islands

Pacific Voices

‘We’re not just welcoming you as allies, but as family’ – Rainbow Warrior in Marshall Islands 40 years on

"While New Zealand was formally invited to join the Board -- and chose to decline -- Fiji was not invited at all"

Pacific Voices

Troops without a seat – the Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ and Fiji

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) with President Prabowo Subianto at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, in April 2025

Pacific Voices

Indonesia’s Pacific manoeuvres – money, military and silencing West Papua

May 11, 2025

Port Moresby housing

Pacific Voices

Rebecca Kuku: No end in sight for Port Moresby’s unaffordable rental...

January 6, 2021

The Kanaky flag of independence (and West Papaua Morning Star flag inset)

Pacific Voices

Jimmy Naouna: Macron’s handling of Kanaky New Caledonia isn’t working –...

June 4, 2024

Reporter Rakesh Kumar (from left) and chief editor Fred Wesley from The Fiji Times, and editor Samantha Magick of Islands Business

Pacific Voices

Historic day for Fiji journalism as ‘draconian’ media law scrapped

Pacific Media Watch -

April 6, 2023

The flags of Guam and the US

Pacific Voices

Guam at decolonisation ‘crossroads’ with resolution on US statehood

March 16, 2025

The news about New Zealand's Newshub newsroom facing closure

Pacific Voices

NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub...

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February 28, 2024

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Pacific Climate Warriors rise for global day of ‘urgent action’

September 7, 2018

Rainbow Warrior

Pacific Voices

35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind

July 29, 2020

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More female Pacific and Māori youth needed for techno future, says...

June 13, 2016

Pacific Voices

Dear Heather, we’re really talented, empowered – and we’re not leeches!

Leilani Sitagata -

October 3, 2018

PNG anti-corruption drive

Pacific Voices

PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’

May 25, 2023

Efika Kora, Papuan student

Pacific Voices

West Papuan students’ dreams dashed after scholarships suddenly cancelled

April 23, 2022

Australia's The Voice vote . . . passionate supporters for both the "yes" and "no" camps

Pacific Voices

‘No’ to Australia’s indigenous Voice – a devastating wake-up call for...

October 17, 2023

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in Auckland with the Fijian community for Fiji Day festivities

Pacific Voices

Indo-Fijian ‘listen to us’ plea to NZ over Pacific ethnicity classification

November 1, 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

Pacific Voices

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

July 24, 2025

NZ Herald journalist Vaimoana Tapaleao

Pacific Voices

Samoan Language Week: A reminder of what it means to be...

June 5, 2021

Aerial pictures of the tsunami damage on Fonoifua

Pacific Voices

Overwhelming sense of relief that ‘apocalyptic’ Tongan tsunami spared most lives

January 23, 2022

Pacific Voices

NZ’s Labour Party needs to ‘reach back into Pacific community’, says...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 18, 2017

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

Pacific Voices

Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

Sri Krishnamurthi -

September 2, 2020

Grieving daughter in Tonga

Pacific Voices

Omicron Tonga: Heartbreak as hearse arrives outside MIQ hotel for daughter...

February 26, 2022

Tahitian anti-nuclear activist Hinamoeura Cross and her baby Marunui

Pacific Voices

Nuclear experts offer to ‘take a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor...

June 23, 2023

West Papua's Benny Wenda

Pacific Voices

Veteran West Papua independence leader elected ULMWP president

November 25, 2023

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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

Pacific Voices

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Pacific Voices

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

Pacific Voices

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

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

Pacific Voices

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)

Pacific Voices

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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The Heritage Foundation

China

Trump-aligned think tank proposes ‘Pacific Charter’, greater US involvement in the...

Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

Analysis

War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...

Vanuatu national women's football team playing Fiji last week in the FIFA 2027 World Cup Oceania Qualifiers

Culture

Vanuatu newspaper faces football coverage ban after ‘lesbianism’ headline

TVNZ 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver

Pacific Voices

‘There’s volatile times ahead’ for the Pacific, warns Barbara Dreaver

EDITOR'S PICKS

"Journalists must use their imagination to exercise empathy in reporting.

Asia Report

Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral...

With censorship and propaganda shaping coverage of the war on Iran on all sides, news audiences are having to navigate a confused and often misleading maze of information

Asia Report

War on Iran: Propaganda in overdrive as Trump’s war spirals out...

Iranian Israeli political activist and editor Orly Noy

Asia Report

As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West...

"A bright future." Graphic: Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: The world according to Gaza – it’s only the...

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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

"Journalists must use their imagination to exercise empathy in reporting.

Asia Report

Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral...

With censorship and propaganda shaping coverage of the war on Iran on all sides, news audiences are having to navigate a confused and often misleading maze of information

Asia Report

War on Iran: Propaganda in overdrive as Trump’s war spirals out...

Iranian Israeli political activist and editor Orly Noy

Asia Report

As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West...

Iran attacked two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz

Business

Pacific governments warn against panic buying as war on Iran threatens...