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The Moruroa Files – how cutting edge science, secret documents and journalism exposed a Pacific lie

Pacific Media Watch -

March 10, 2021

Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

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Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy

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

Dame Jacinda Ardern, Special Envoy for Oceania and former prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand (right) and Coral Pasisi, Director of Climate Change and Sustainability at the Pacific Community (SPC)

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Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in Brazil

Rongelap Islanders on board the Rainbow Warrior bound for Mejatto in May 1985

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Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US

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...

November 25, 2024

Fukushima Daichi nuclear power station

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Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance

August 5, 2023

"Let Gaza Live" says a placard in a New Zealand protest against the Israeli genocide and environmental devastation in West Auckland

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Gaza’s water supply turns poisonous as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic legacy

November 9, 2025

Half of the Marshall Islands' 50,000-strong population live in the capital city of Majuro

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Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research

June 6, 2025

What lies ahead at Baku?

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COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed

November 10, 2024

USP student journalist Riya Bhagwan

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USP student journalists win Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 1, 2025

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking at the opening of COP30, yesterday

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COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold...

November 11, 2025

Pacific youth climate activist at a demonstration at COP27 in 2022

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COP30: ‘Ego manoeuvring’ behind scenes at UN climate talks, says Pacific...

November 15, 2025

Pacific Climate Warriors

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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Sri Krishnamurthi -

October 12, 2020

Tuvalu delegates Monise Laafai and Demi Afasene

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Nations join ranks to delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator

August 2, 2024

Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross received the Nuclear-free Future Award in New York on 28 November 2023

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Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and...

November 7, 2024

Palau's Surangel S. Whipps Jr addresses the Climate Summit 2025, a high-Level special event on Climate Action, at COP30 in Brazil

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Palau’s leader urges stronger climate action after New Zealand lowers methane...

November 14, 2025

A PNG soldier guarding Bougainville's Panguna mine in 1989

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Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave...

June 7, 2025

Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus

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Pacific protesters against deep sea mining challenge US exploration ship

October 22, 2025

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

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Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

August 23, 2023

Artisanal miners search for gold in the waters downstream from the Panguna mine

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Lawsuit promises justice for Rio Tinto’s mining disaster in Bougainville –...

August 2, 2024

Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro

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Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history

March 15, 2025

Auckland flash flood debris

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NZ flash floods: Residents slam council inaction over rubbish disposal

February 2, 2023

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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Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism

Pacific Media Watch -

July 23, 2024

The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning

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The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...

July 3, 2025

The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior berthed in Suva harbour in Fiji

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Rainbow Warrior sails Pacific seeking evidence for World Court climate case

August 14, 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"

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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

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

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

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Ambassador Sidharto Reza Suryodipuro

Asia Report

Indonesia accused of being ‘unfit’ for UN rights council presidency

The Israeli version of shock and awe has long been a default policy

Asia Report

A war without headlines: Israel’s shock-and-awe campaign in the West Bank

"Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships"

Analysis

Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror

A media headline last October when US President Donald Trump missed out on his coveted Nobel Peace Prize

Editor's Picks

Nobel Peace Prize ‘gift’ to Trump slammed as ‘meaningless, pathetic ...

EDITOR'S PICKS

A media headline last October when US President Donald Trump missed out on his coveted Nobel Peace Prize

Editor's Picks

Nobel Peace Prize ‘gift’ to Trump slammed as ‘meaningless, pathetic ...

The Israeli version of shock and awe has long been a default policy

Asia Report

A war without headlines: Israel’s shock-and-awe campaign in the West Bank

Executive director of B’Tselem Yuli Novak

Asia Report

Israeli society has ‘become completely genocidal’, says B’Tselem head

Marian Rivera as Mirama

Asia Report

Evening star rising: Girlhood in the Aeta heartlands of the Philippines

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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

President Emmanuel Macron

Decolonisation

Pro-France MPs confront Macron over New Caledonia at future talks

A media headline last October when US President Donald Trump missed out on his coveted Nobel Peace Prize

Editor's Picks

Nobel Peace Prize ‘gift’ to Trump slammed as ‘meaningless, pathetic ...

The Israeli version of shock and awe has long been a default policy

Asia Report

A war without headlines: Israel’s shock-and-awe campaign in the West Bank

Palestine advocate Leeann Wahanui-Peters

Asia Report

Israel accused over ‘shameful whitewashing’ bid to sanitise soldier holidays in...