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Fiji protesters in support of a "Free West Papua"

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Fiji human rights coalition challenges Rabuka over decolonisation ‘unfinished business’

June 30, 2025

Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark

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Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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‘Don’t surrender’ to Indonesian pressure over West Papua, Bomanak warns MSG

Te Mareikura Whakataka Brightwell

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Tahiti prepares for its first Matari’i public holiday

Arab members of the Global March To Gaza were the targets of the most dramatic and violent excesses committed by the Egyptian authorities

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Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’

Theo Hesegem

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Dear President Widodo, be honest with Papua about the military...

March 16, 2021

Madang's Sir Peter Barter (centre) passes on

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PNG statesman Sir Peter Barter a strong supporter of the free...

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June 25, 2022

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Pacific student journalists passionate about reporting climate change

April 25, 2017

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West Papuan speaker ‘silenced’ when trying to raise UN agenda issue

May 1, 2019

Teremoana Maua-Hodges

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Fifteen Pasifika people on NZ King’s Birthday Honours List

June 5, 2023

The Fiji Times 270421

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Shailendra Singh: Some tough covid questions for Fiji after 12 more...

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April 27, 2021

Fiji's Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva

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Canterbury appoints Ratuva as first Te Amorangi in Pacific leadership team

February 27, 2023

Girmitiyas - Indentured labourers - in Fiji

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New NZ theatre production highlights Fiji Girmityas’ struggles

June 11, 2023

The village on Serua Island, Fiji

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Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood...

January 10, 2023

The Cibery Beach clean-up

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Papuan ‘women’s forest party’ boosts culture in mangrove haven

October 2, 2023

Medical pills PNG

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Challenging covid-19 – two critics of PNG’s K10m drug development plan

November 1, 2020

Jack Pidik Park in Port Moresby

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Governor Parkop takes back Moresby park for ‘benefit of our people’

August 27, 2021

Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe

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Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe – An exceptional Pacific life

August 1, 2022

FLNKS permanent representative at the UN Magalie Tingal-Lémé

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UN told France has ‘robbed’ Kanaks of New Caledonian independence

June 15, 2023

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (from left), PNG Prime Minister James Marape (standing) and Defence Minister Win Daki after signing the US-PNG defence cooperation pact in Port Moresby

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How Washington teamed up with PNG to pip Canberra for ‘control’...

July 5, 2023

Nurse Suliana Bulavakarua

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Fiji student son tells of his pregnant nurse mum’s losing struggle...

July 28, 2021

Lawyer Richard Naidu outside the High Court in Suva

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Wadan Narsey: Shameful silences over another unfolding tragedy in Fiji

October 18, 2022

US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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NZ govt ‘welcomes’ US diplomatic relations with Cook Islands, Niue

September 27, 2023

PCC's Reverend James Bhagwan

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Rev James Bhagwan: Climate justice now for the sake of humanity

November 11, 2021

Independent journalist Raimundos Oki

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Timor-Leste journalist faces probe after exposing child abuse case

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July 15, 2022

A protest against the division of Papua Province and the establishment of a New Autonomous Region in Jayapura City in 2022

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Papuan activists accuse Jakarta over mounting ‘brutal’ repression, arrests

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May 20, 2023

The rise in drug trafficking through Fiji is just one part of a booming trans-Pacific trade

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Fall of a Fijian trafficker exposes previous government’s blind eye to...

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October 20, 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

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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

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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

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

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

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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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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

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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)

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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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Flags from most of the Micronesian islands participating in the regional summit this week fly outside the International Conference Center

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Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step...

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

EDITOR'S PICKS

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...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman

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Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice...

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese

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UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy...

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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

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Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

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...

West Papua human rights advocate and independence leader Octo Mote

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Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Octo Mote

Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman

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Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice...

Protesters picketing a Rocket Lab manufacturing site in Warkworth

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Palestine protesters target NZ businesses ‘complicit’ with Israel’s Gaza genocide