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Samoa’s Brown Girl Woke initiative fights culture of silence on violence

July 17, 2023

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

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

Pacific Voices

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

RNZ Pacific partnered with Pacific Media Network to question major parties on how their policies will benefit Pacific peoples

Pacific Voices

NZ election 2023: Overstayers issue kicks off Pacific communities debate

Lionel Aingimea

Pacific Voices

Nauru president Aingimea accuses Fiji of being ‘divisive’ over USP funding

Farewelling Sir Michael Somare

Pacific Voices

Scott Waide: Grand Chief Somare and the wisdom he left for...

March 17, 2021

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and PNG Defence Minister Win Barki Daki

Pacific Voices

PNG academic says Port Moresby politicians naïve over US defence deals

June 22, 2023

Flashback to West Papua 1971

Pacific Voices

OPM day – celebrating the 1971 Papuan ‘independence proklamasi’

July 4, 2022

People's Alliance leader Sitiveni Rabuka

Pacific Voices

Fiji elections: Rabuka – ‘What I’m doing now is a vision’

December 11, 2022

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (right) with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh in Jakarta 2022

Pacific Voices

Wenda slams Jakarta’s ‘hypocrisy’ over support for Palestine, but denying West...

March 4, 2023

PJR 28(1&2) cover detail

Pacific Voices

NZ’s Parliament siege, ‘disinformation war’, kava and media change featured in...

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July 29, 2022

PNG Post-Courier newsroom

Pacific Voices

‘Chilling effect on journalism’ – Fiji academic warns PNG against media...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 28, 2023

Healthcare Trust chief executive Lemalu Silao Vaisola

Pacific Voices

Pacific health provider faces covid-19 fatigue within community

January 31, 2022

Lilo Ema Siope

Pacific Voices

Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

July 22, 2020

Language

Pacific Voices: Fijian language week celebrations honour the past

October 6, 2016

The news about New Zealand's Newshub newsroom facing closure

Pacific Voices

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

Pacific Media Watch -

February 28, 2024

Camera at Malang

Pacific Voices

Dear editor, we have you in our sights for reporting ‘the...

March 11, 2021

A tent at CWM Hospital, Suva

Pacific Voices

Fiji’s covid horror is too late to fix, yet still our...

July 21, 2021

Scott Waide

Pacific Voices

Scott Waide: Memo to our younger people – go out to...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 8, 2021

Pacific Voices

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

June 13, 2016

Papuan protesters in Malang

Pacific Voices

Teen killed as Indonesian police tell Papuans: ‘You’re legitimate target! Shoot!’

March 10, 2021

Nduga internal refugees

Pacific Voices

A belated Papua Christmas morning story from Nduga’s internal refugees

Pacific Media Watch -

January 2, 2021

John Pulu & Jacinda Ardern

Pacific Voices

Getting the message through: How are South Aucklanders staying informed about...

March 23, 2021

Sitiveni Rabuka

Pacific Voices

Rabuka’s exit may spell ‘beginning of end’ for Fiji’s SODELPA

December 8, 2020

The Polynesian Panthers in 1971 © John Miller

Pacific Voices

50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of...

June 16, 2021

Bodies of papuan civilians being evacuated after an attack 160722

Pacific Voices

‘Doorstops’ at the Pacific Forum – why no tough questions on...

July 22, 2022

Pacific Voices

Tagata Pasifika celebrates 35 years on air – a pan-Pacific voice...

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April 3, 2022

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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

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

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

Tweet to @DavidRobie
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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

POPULAR POSTS

A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday

Analysis

Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

CNMI and Guam activists stage a rally protesting against the US military buildup in the Marianas

Asia Report

‘Bridge for peace – not more bombs,’ say CNMI Gaza protesters

The Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama (left) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Bougainville

Talks result in PNG and Bougainville signing ‘Melanesian Agreement’

Fiji protesters in support of a "Free West Papua"

Pacific Voices

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

EDITOR'S PICKS

Rabaul's Archbishop Rochus Tatamai

Culture

Catholic Church warns against PNG declaring itself a ‘Christian country’

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

Pacific Voices

Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast

The Bradbury Group's presenter Martyn Bradbury talks Gaza to Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal

Asia Report

The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report...

Starved for Peace - Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

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

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

Pacific Voices

Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast

Since the data breach, the Tongan government has said "a small amount" of information from the attack was published online. This included confidential information,

Crime

Tonga cybersecurity attack wake-up call for Pacific, warns expert

Activist minister Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua brandishes the petition against the AUKUS military pact at the launch

Decolonisation

Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Rev Mua Strickson-Pua

The Bradbury Group's presenter Martyn Bradbury talks Gaza to Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal

Asia Report

The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report...