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Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jnr

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Palau’s President warns of rising nuclear anxiety in the Pacific, after China missile test

July 9, 2026

Ex-coup convict George Speight

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Former coup leader re-enters Fiji political debate with challenge to immunity and national identity

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

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Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Protesters from Americans Abroad Against the War (AAAW) taking part in a recent Auckland march against the US war on Iran

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‘Profound strategic misjudgment’ – why Iran may have upper hand in war with US

Actor Sam Neill

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Sam Neill: NZ’s biggest but modest movie star dies at 78

Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Dr Sailele Malielegaoi

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Samoa opposition leader says treason inquiry delayed over lack of evidence

July 13, 2026

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

The tino rangatiratanga flag

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He Puapua report proposals bogged down in ‘swamp of politics’

May 9, 2021

Indonesian military forces on patrol in the Oksop regency

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Indonesia defends high number of military deployed in Papua

July 6, 2026

Tonga's Permanent Representative to the UN Viliami Va'inga Tōnē (left)

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Tonga ratifies nuclear test ban treaty amid China missile debacle

July 8, 2026

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

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NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

July 15, 2026

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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

March 2, 2026

Three inmates, who scaled the fence at Baisu Prison, were shot dead

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Dilapidated infrastructure blamed for fatal PNG prison escape attempt

July 14, 2026

Fiame Naomi Mata'afa being sworn in

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FAST heading back to court to try and resolve political impasse...

May 25, 2021

Small island developing states facing the lowest global ODA level since 2014

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Pacific nations among hardest hit as global aid drops, says OECD

July 2, 2026

Pro-independence Papuan rebels fighters take a NZ pilot hostage

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Papuan rebels seize NZ pilot hostage, set local plane on fire,...

February 7, 2023

Sodelpa leaders announce coalition partner

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Reports of ‘anomalies’ in Sodelpa vote to go with opposition parties

December 21, 2022

Northern provincial President Paul Néaoutine, first elected in 1999, has been reelected

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Horse-trading in New Caledonia over provincial presidency elections

July 4, 2026

New US Ambassador Jared Novelly to NZ

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New US ambassador to New Zealand says Cook Islands a top...

July 6, 2026

Fehi Fineanganofo garlanded by family speaks to the media after the All Blacks defeated France 34-32 in Christchurch

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‘Pasifika’ All Blacks claim bloody and physical Nations rugby test against...

July 5, 2026

Founding Kiribati president Sir Ieremia Tabai

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Kiribati exit from Pacific forum ‘out of order’, says founding president

July 11, 2022

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China...

July 8, 2026

Disputed Hunter Island

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Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

July 15, 2026

Armed New Zealand police on alert in downtown Auckland today

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Three dead in Auckland CBD shooting, including gunman, police confirm

July 20, 2023

Anti-covid public health measures protesters and police clash on the 23rd day of the Parliament grounds occupation in Wellington

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NZ Parliament grounds ‘reclaimed’: Police operation ends 23-day protest

March 2, 2022

A TPNPB resistance fighter stands guard on the charred aircraft remains

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Fears of more conflict in West Papua after American pilot killed

July 3, 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

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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

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...

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

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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 Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

Analysis

The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Analysis

Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

Protesters from Americans Abroad Against the War (AAAW) taking part in a recent Auckland march against the US war on Iran

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‘Profound strategic misjudgment’ – why Iran may have upper hand in...

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Disputed Hunter Island

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Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

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NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral

Analysis

How Tehran turned Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral into a media event

Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Analysis

Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Disputed Hunter Island

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Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

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NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral

Analysis

How Tehran turned Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral into a media event

Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Analysis

Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy