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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (right)

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PNG and Bougainville to hold more talks on independence issue

March 20, 2025

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

RNZ Pacific

Swarbrick pleads for NZ cross-party support for sanctions on Israel

NZ's opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins

RNZ Pacific

Hipkins accuses PM of undermining NZ’s nuclear-free stance in India memo

Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

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Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Fijian academic says PM’s plans to change constitution ‘might take a while’

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

RNZ Pacific

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

March 15, 2025

Māori entities have grown from contributing $17 billion to New Zealand's GDP

RNZ Pacific

Dramatic growth of NZ’s Māori economy highlights new report

March 14, 2025

A sandalwood oil factory in flames on Maré Island

RNZ Pacific

Violent weekend brawl, clashes rock Greater Nouméa area

March 11, 2025

Centre for Pacific and Global Health co-director Sir Collin Tukuitonga

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NZ bowel cancer screening changes ‘driven by ideology, not facts’

March 11, 2025

Marshall Islands Journal editor Giff Johnson

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Concern US presence could run against Marshall Islands nuclear-free treaty

March 10, 2025

Luamanuvao Winnie Laban and her husband Dr Peter Swain

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Luamanuvao reflects on International Women’s Day and ‘Pacific dreams’

March 10, 2025

NZ's major print media and radio company NZME

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Union wary of Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon’s NZ media influence

Pacific Media Watch -

March 6, 2025

Cook Islands Christian Movement interim secretary William Framhein believes that the country should be declared a "Christian nation"

RNZ Pacific

Churches push for Cook Islands to be declared a Christian nation...

March 6, 2025

The Marshall Islands suffered 67 known atmospheric nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958

RNZ Pacific

Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy

March 5, 2025

The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025

RNZ Pacific

Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

March 5, 2025

French Overseas Territories Minister Manuel Valls

RNZ Pacific

French minister wraps up key talks in New Caledonia, returning late...

March 3, 2025

Papua New Guinea is reeling after the separate killings of two women

RNZ Pacific

Nine more arrested in PNG for brutal kidnap, rape and murder...

March 3, 2025

Development Policy Centre research fellow Dr Terence Wood

RNZ Pacific

Political analyst hopes NZ, Australia will ‘step up’ over USAID cuts...

March 3, 2025

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Activists scale NZ building in protest against global weapons company

March 3, 2025

Relatives and supporters protest outside Goroka

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Relatives of slain PNG police officer block Highlands Highway over unresolved...

February 27, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says...

February 27, 2025

"It's got some usefulness to achieve."

RNZ Pacific

PNG govt’s latest ID plan unlikely to be achieved, says academic

February 26, 2025

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

RNZ Pacific

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame survives in resounding no-confidence vote

February 25, 2025

French Overseas Minister Manuel Valls (centre) clashes

RNZ Pacific

Valls faces Kanak ‘first people’ clash with loyalists over independence talks

February 24, 2025

French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls

RNZ Pacific

France’s Minister Valls faces tough talks in New Caledonia over future

February 21, 2025

Fij's planned Jerusalem move . . . illegal under international law

RNZ Pacific

Fiji’s diplomatic move to Jerusalem sparks controversy with Palestine

February 21, 2025

Cook islanders protest in the streets of Avarua today

RNZ Pacific

Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government

February 18, 2025

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

RNZ Pacific

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

RNZ Pacific

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

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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

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?

Bearing Witness

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

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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

How Al Jazeera today reported the resumption of Israeli air strikes on Gaza

Asia Report

PSNA calls on NZ govt to condemn renewed Israel air strikes...

Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

RNZ Pacific

Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

RNZ Pacific

Swarbrick pleads for NZ cross-party support for sanctions on Israel

A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

Asia Report

Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

EDITOR'S PICKS

This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Climate

Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

Asia Report

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement

New Zealand journalist Mohamed Hassan presenting the Big Picture podcast

Asia Report

Netanyahu commits a new ‘bloodbath in Gaza’ to save himself

Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

RNZ Pacific

Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

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

NZ's Foreign Minister Winston Peters now more optimistic

Asia Report

US might not cut pledged Pacific aid, says NZ foreign minister

This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Climate

Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

RNZ Pacific

Swarbrick pleads for NZ cross-party support for sanctions on Israel

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

Asia Report

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement