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Tuvalu's Transport, Energy, and Communications Minister Simon Kofe

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‘We have to keep pressuring Australia to do the right thing’, says Tuvalu MP on climate action

October 27, 2024

An upgraded HMAS Stirling in Western Australia

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Nuclear submarines may never appear, but AUKUS is already in place

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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PNG eyes China for more ‘cheaper’ loans as ties gain momentum

Labour leader Chris Hipkins has shown no sign he is capable of leading the rejuvenation policy the party needs

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NZ election 2023: Labour’s disconnect with the electorate – and with itself

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

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Samoa PM calls on world leaders to ‘leave nationalism behind’ to achieve UN sustainability goals

PNG's Vice-Minister for Planning James Nomane

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‘Quit lip service’ and reshuffle PNG cabinet for national benefit, says...

September 18, 2023

Entrepreneur Joelle Holland

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Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture

September 15, 2023

Homeless Raymond Green and his worldly possessions

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Being homeless in PNG is a ‘death sentence’, says Moresby’s Raymond

September 13, 2023

Co-chairs Nina Santos and Father Henry Rogo of the Te Ohu founding assembly last night

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NZ election 2023: ‘People power’ alliance wins pledge of 1000 new...

September 7, 2023

NZ's parliamentary Beehive

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Hipkins warns NZ voters against ‘turning the clock back’ on reforms

September 1, 2023

Funki Uin waiting in vain for a pension pay out

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Growing controversy over ‘blocked’ PNG next-of-kin pension pay outs

August 10, 2023

FCOSS chief executive officer Vani Catanasiga

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Fiji faces more children being in trouble over ‘ice’, warns FCOSS

July 31, 2023

According to Stats NZ, around 155,000 households feel their incomes aren’t sufficient to meet everyday basic needs

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NZ’s housing market drives inequality – why not just tax houses...

July 3, 2023

Professor Biman Prasad addressing the Pacific Update conference

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‘Other people’s wars’, climate crisis – South Pacific not in good...

June 21, 2023

President-to-be Moetai Brotherson

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Tahiti’s pro-independence ‘blue wave’ back at helm with decisive win

May 2, 2023

A two-year investigation by Inland Revenue

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Rich-lister supports NZ capital gains tax as new research opens fresh...

April 27, 2023

"Thousands of casual academic staff were laid off during covid-19 pandemic closures

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‘Shameful wage stealing’ endemic at Australian universities, says report

March 1, 2023

Fiji's Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva

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Canterbury appoints Ratuva as first Te Amorangi in Pacific leadership team

February 27, 2023

The social value of forestry was considered inefficient and wasteful

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Cyclone Gabrielle triggers more destructive forestry ‘slash’ – NZ must change...

February 18, 2023

Myanmar’s democracy movement wants the international community to impose tough sanctions on the junta

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China’s influence in Myanmar could tip the scales towards war in...

November 21, 2022

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Climate change costs at-risk countries $525 billion in damage, says report

June 13, 2022

Pacific Affairs Minister Aupito William Sio

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Aupito heads to Fiji as government faces pressure over China strategy

May 31, 2022

NZ Budget 2022

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NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system

May 19, 2022

New Zealand's first Emissions Reduction Plan ... car critics

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NZ’s focus on private vehicles an ‘off-track’ climate change plan, say...

May 17, 2022

Jacinda Ardern and Christopher Luxon

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Gordon Campbell: On gendered perceptions in Aotearoa politics

April 18, 2022

Fiji's Professor Biman Prasad

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Prasad confident ‘fed up’ Fijians will make a change in this...

April 14, 2022

Latest ICPP report shows that the global emissions over the last decade highest ever

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Climate change: IPCC scientist warns world ‘pretty much out of time’

April 5, 2022

CLIMATE AND COVID

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

Stephanie Sageo-Tapungu

Climate

How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

Analysis

Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

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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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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Professor Mohamad Elmasry

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Western media ‘parrots Israeli propaganda’ over Gaza, says analyst

ACT leader David Seymour and former prime minister Jenny Shipley

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NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill ‘inviting civil war’, says former PM Shipley

Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipa-Clarke led a haka in Parliament after the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill

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NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and...

With no upper house, nor a written constitution, important laws can be fast-tracked or repealed by a simple majority of Parliament

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NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a...

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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

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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

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Security forces watch from behind barbed wire as indigenous Papuans from Merauke in the Indonesia-ruled Melanesian region protest

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Survey warning on Papua ‘box ticking’ mega estates project goes unheeded

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NZ’s Hīkoi challenging controversial draft bill ‘redefines activism’, says Herald

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Collins and Rocket Lab challenged over satellites linked to Israeli war...

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide

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