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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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October 12, 2020

Oscar Temaru leads anti-nuclear tests

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Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button still to be reset

A P-3K2 Orion aircraft flies over Nomuka island

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Gallery: What the NZ air crew saw at Tonga’s Nomuka – a choking carpet of volcanic ash

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Solomons’ deal with Chinese developer sparks ‘concern’

Panguna gold and copper mine

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PNG faces dilemma over ‘momentous’ decision to reopen Bougainville’s Panguna mine

Bikini Atoll descendant Sosylina Jibas-Maddison

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Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas

Pacific Media Watch -

December 29, 2022

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Toxic smoke chokes region as Indonesian rainforests burn

September 18, 2019

Wabu Block gold mine site

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Amnesty calls for halt to planned Wabu Block gold mine in...

May 11, 2022

Campaigner and MP Theonila Roka Matbob

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Panguna campaigner Theonila Matbob wins award over Rio Tinto challenge

October 7, 2021

Moruroa files

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The Moruroa Files – how cutting edge science, secret documents and...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 10, 2021

Indonesian anti-nuke waste rally

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Indonesian activists protest against plan to dump Fukushima nuclear waste in...

June 10, 2021

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Protest marks French Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa anniversary

July 6, 2020

King Charles III ... Upon his elevation to the throne, the new king is expected to be less outspoken on environmental issues

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‘The most significant environmentalist in history’ is now king. Two Australian...

September 14, 2022

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Editor tells how US nuclear testing legacy ‘festers on’ in Marshall...

December 13, 2020

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Indonesian schoolgirls tell Trump ‘take back your toxic rubbish’

July 17, 2019

Russel Norman of Greenpeace Aotearoa

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Russel Norman: Don’t be fooled by NZ greenwashing, the lack of...

August 12, 2022

Professor Vijay Naidu

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Fiji academic calls for more action to reverse Suva foreshore pollution

September 25, 2020

Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr

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Fiji, Palau and Samoa call for deep-sea mining moratorium at UN...

June 30, 2022

Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

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Indonesia sues PNG for K105m over storage of ‘illegal’ oil shipments

July 12, 2022

A French nuclear explosion at Moruroa atoll in 1970

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French nuclear testing fallout in Pacific still affecting NZ men decades...

June 29, 2023

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Ocean at ‘breaking point’: Pacific angst at latest climate report

October 3, 2019

The container ship Dali

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Baltimore bridge crash ship carrying toxic waste to Sri Lanka, says...

April 2, 2024

Oscar Temaru and the book Toxique

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Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally

July 18, 2021

While the Marshall Islands was under US trusteeship, the US government detonated 67 atmospheric and ground weapons over a 12 year period

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Activists call for US apology, ‘justice’ over Marshall Islands nuclear tests

January 23, 2023

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

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Rabuka, PIF ‘undermine credibility’ of Pacific experts over Japan’s nuclear waste...

August 12, 2023

A Japanese Greenpeace protest against the planned Fukushima treated nuclear wastewater discharge

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NZ women’s peace group protests over imminent Fukushima nuclear wastewater release

August 22, 2023

The year is 2040 in NZ

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Report from the future: Aotearoa New Zealand is looking good in...

January 7, 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"

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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

Coronavirus

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

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

Bearing Witness

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

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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

POPULAR POSTS

The new New Zealand investment bill is convoluted and would significantly reduce effective scrutiny of foreign investments

Analysis

Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had...

Zionist settllers attack Palestinian homes and cars at the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank

Asia Report

First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’

Stéphane Hessel was a leading member of the French Resistance

Analysis

Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?

"Hot off the press" . . . David Robie talks Eyes of Fire just after receiving the first copy of his book marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985

Civil Society

David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The first-ever US military flight carrying 18 Marshall Islanders deported from the United States by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrives at Majuro

Crime

ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base

"Western media institutions promote a colonial narrative that reproduces the discourse of Israeli superiority, using linguistic and legal mechanisms to justify genocide."

Asia Report

Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative

Stéphane Hessel was a leading member of the French Resistance

Analysis

Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses The Hague Group Summit

Analysis

12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá...

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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 new New Zealand investment bill is convoluted and would significantly reduce effective scrutiny of foreign investments

Analysis

Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had...

Auckland protesters condemn Israel's systematic starvation tactics in the besieged Gaza enclave in a march in the Viaduct

Crime

PSNA calls on NZ to urgently condemn Israeli weaponisation of starvation

Porirua Cemetery manager Daniel Chrisp speaks at the Family Forum beside the chapel, as Mayor Anita Baker and whānau gather to honour 1800 patients buried in unmarked graves

Civil Society

Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels

Asia Report

Is the international community finally speaking up about Israel’s Gaza genocide?