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NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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Luxon defends NZ’s position on Iran attacks – same as Australia

March 2, 2026

As a second-tier PIF partner, Israel will support Pacific development priorities in areas such as water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation

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‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s PIF role

The French and Kanak flags flying high

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New Caledonia pro-independence leaders boycott EU critical minerals deal

Samoan Prime Minister La'auli and New Zealand's Christopher Luxon in Apia

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‘I said no’ – Samoan PM told Luxon treaty refresh must wait until new NZ govt elected

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

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Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul faces backlash

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (left) and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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Mark Brown on China deal: ‘No need for NZ to sit...

February 9, 2025

Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,

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Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

October 28, 2026

New Zealand electon voting papers being printed

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New Zealand election: Where political parties stand on Pasifika issues

October 27, 2026

All smiles for Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge...

August 31, 2026

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

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West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...

October 28, 2026

Four days before the Kanaky New Caledonia provincial elections, the pro-independence Kanak Workers and Exploited Workers' Union (USTKE) has announced its voting preferences in all three provinces

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Alcohol sales banned in New Caledonia as provincial election approaches

June 24, 2026

Some of Dr David Robie's books

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Liberation for New Caledonia’s Kanak people ‘must come’, says educator

May 21, 2024

The Yuan Wang 2 Chinese satellite tracking vessel

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NZ accuses China of going against peace and stability of Pacific

July 7, 2026

Fiji Deputy PM Viliame Gavoka

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Israel’s relationship with Pacific is ‘biblical, ageless, real’, says Fiji deputy...

October 22, 2026

Johnson and Jaqueline Yandam

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PNG landslide: Couple pulled alive from rubble as 690 feared dead

May 27, 2024

Samoan PM La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

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Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence

November 17, 2025

The Hui-ā-Iwi at Tūrangawaewae marae

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More than 10,000 turn out for NZ’s national Hui-ā-Iwi at Tūrangawaewae

January 20, 2024

Maipi-Clarke beginning the Ka Mate haka

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NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading after Māori MP evicted...

November 14, 2024

Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark

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NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says...

August 1, 2025

A former Kanaky New Caledonia territorial government president, Louis Mapou, heads the breakaway pro-independence UNI list

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New Caledonia’s political parties make final pitch to voters before campaigning...

June 27, 2026

TVNZ's 1News and Kiribati

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Mediawatch: NZ media in the middle of Asia-Pacific diplomatic drama

Pacific Media Watch -

February 9, 2025

JAWS president Lagi Keresoma

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Samoan PM bans nation’s only newspaper from government access

Pacific Media Watch -

November 18, 2025

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gloating in the Gaza flotilla detainees video

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Peters condemns Israeli minister over flotilla video as 3 Kiwis detained

May 21, 2026

"Alii - welcome to Palau"

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Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat

August 31, 2026

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 030921

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NZ mall stabbings a terrorist attack by ‘lone wolf’, says PM...

September 3, 2021

Nouméa voters queue at the Town Hall after polling places opened

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Heavy security deployed as New Caledonia’s crucial elections begin

June 28, 2026

Hostage NZ pilot Philip Mehrtens in new video 260423

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‘I’m alive, healthy . . . stop the bombs,’ says kidnapped...

April 26, 2023

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

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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

Analysis

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

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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

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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

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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

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

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

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

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Asia Report

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

As a second-tier PIF partner, Israel will support Pacific development priorities in areas such as water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation

RNZ Pacific

‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s...

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

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Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

EDITOR'S PICKS

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Asia Report

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,

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Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

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West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...

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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

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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

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Asia Report

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,

RNZ Pacific

Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

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West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...