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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

September 20, 2023

PNG's Vice-Minister for Planning James Nomane

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

Entrepreneur Joelle Holland

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Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture

Homeless Raymond Green and his worldly possessions

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

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 state houses a year

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

Suburban housing in Dunedin

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The coming storm for New Zealand’s future retirees: still renting and...

March 30, 2022

Guarding Panguna mine

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Panguna share value doubles overnight after landowners opt to reopen mine

February 15, 2022

James O'Dea ... oral historical account of struggles in Aotearoa

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James ‘Jimmy’ O’Dea: How he upheld Te Tino Rangatiratanga and many...

December 9, 2021

Rioting in Kukum Highway, Honiara,

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Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion

November 25, 2021

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

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

Bearing Witness

Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere

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While PNG promotes APEC big money, youth are building grassroots resilience

APJS newsfile

40 luxury Maseratis for PNG, but little effort put into climate...

APJS newsfile

Tukuitonga goes into battle on behalf of Pacific for WHO position

APJS newsfile

Memo NZ: ‘Get on the right side of history’ over West...

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Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi

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Fiji Parliament passes a motion to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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Fijian lawmakers vote for truth-telling body to ‘heal coup pains, scars’

Clarifications or not, PNG Prime Minister James Marape has left a lingering impression that Papua New Guinea’s foreign policy is for sale

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PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua

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Australia

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

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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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French journalist Ariane Lavrilleux

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IPI condemns arrest of investigative journalist Ariane Lavrilleux over ‘Egypt papers’

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RWC2023: Boffelli lifts Pumas to win as Manu Samoa rues lost...

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Indigenous rights group highlights rise in land grabs under Jokowi’s watch

Logging piles on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea

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Campaigners call on PNG govt to act over destructive logging