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Vanuatu national women's football team playing Fiji last week in the FIFA 2027 World Cup Oceania Qualifiers

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Vanuatu newspaper faces football coverage ban after ‘lesbianism’ headline

Pacific Media Watch -

March 16, 2026

New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie

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‘I know she’d be really proud’ – NZ’s first Pasifika heritage All Blacks coach

Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters

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Fiji critic’s whistleblower case escalates anti-corruption crisis

Dumped All Blacks coach Scott Roberston

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Mixed reactions to shock axing of All Blacks coach Scott Robertson

Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua

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Pasifika recipients say King’s Birthday honours not just theirs alone

The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes

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PSNA says broadcast ruling a warning to NZ news media to...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 12, 2025

In the wake of an ugly eruption of violence on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2024, the Western media coverage of the story was put under the microscope

Sports

Inaccurate 1News reporting on football violence breached broadcasting standards, rules BSA

Pacific Media Watch -

April 30, 2025

An artist's impression of Quay Park stadium - Te Tōangaroa

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‘Turn it into a retirement village’: Inside the war of words...

January 28, 2025

Pride Marianas founder Roberto Santos

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Northern Mariana Islands advocates hit back at Trump diversity directives

January 23, 2025

Israeli tennis player and ex-soldier Lina Glushko

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Palestine protest group condemns NZ’s ‘normalisation of apartheid’ – Israeli tennis...

December 30, 2024

Australian breakdancing champion Rachael Gunn

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Breaking bad: Why Australia’s Raygun scored zero in Olympics debut

August 12, 2024

Tahitian surfer Kauli Vaast

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French Polynesia’s homeboy ‘King of Teahupo’o’ wins Olympic surf gold

August 6, 2024

All smiles . . . Kara Ravulo in action at a Fijian Drua rugby union match

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Trailblazer of Fijian Drua Media: How Kara Ravulo sailed unforeseen waters

July 30, 2024

Fijiana lost 14-17 to Canada

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Paris Olympics: Fijiana sevens on thin ice after losing two games

July 29, 2024

France’s Antoine Dupont races away from the Fiji defence

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Fiji falls short as Dupont rallies France to claim Olympics rugby...

July 28, 2024

The Aranui, Tahiti's floating Olympic village and hotel for the surfing event

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Paris Olympics in Tahiti: Surfing by day, luxury floating at night

July 28, 2024

The Palestinian Olympic team made its entry into the Paris Games

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World has ‘failed’ Palestinians, says Palestine’s UN envoy

July 27, 2024

Pakilau Manase Lua

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‘Performing monkeys for colonial institutions’ – Pacific adviser quits NZ Rugby

March 23, 2024

New Fiji sevens coach Osea Kolinisau as a player

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Kolinisau named new Fiji 7s coach after Gollings’ failure to win...

March 9, 2024

Flying Fijians fullback Sireli Maqala tries to dance his way through the Portugese defence

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RWC2023: England will be tougher opponent for Flying Fijians in quarters,...

October 10, 2023

Latifah Anum Siregar, director of the Alliance for Democracy for Papua (right), speaks

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West Papua’s human rights issues under spotlight for Jubi film launch

Pacific Media Watch -

October 3, 2023

Vinaya Habosi of Fiji celebrates scoring

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RWC2023: Fijians survive tough battle but yet to confirm quarterfinal spot

October 1, 2023

Scotland's wing Darcy Graham is tackled by Tonga's tighthead prop Ben Tameifuna during the Rugby World Cup

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RWC2023: Tonga outscored and outpointed by Scotland in Nice

September 25, 2023

Argentina's wing Emiliano Boffelli (left) scores a try in WRC2023

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

September 23, 2023

Manu Samoa training ahead of their game against the Pumas

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RWC2023: Manu Samoa motivated for ‘huge game’ against Argentina

September 22, 2023

Flying Fijians replacement flanker Lekima Tagitagivalu

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RWC2023: Fiji’s ’16th man’ – how French support boosts Flying Fijians

September 20, 2023

Prayers of elation . . . a jubilant Fiji after beating Australia 22-15

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RWC2023: Simi Kuruvoli’s boot helps ‘best ever’ Flying Fijians beat Wallabies

September 18, 2023

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

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

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

Asia Report

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

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

PINA president Kalafi Moala

Asia Report

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has expressed grave concern for the safety and well-being of human rights activists Palestinian Saif Abu Kishek and Brazilian Thiago Ávila, who were abducted by Israeli commandos

Asia Report

Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion

Fiji Times journalist Alifereti Josefa-Sakiasi speaking at the combined Fiji universities' World Press Freedom Day talanoa

Democracy

Media programmes at USP, FNU join forces for World Press Freedom...

EDITOR'S PICKS

PINA president Kalafi Moala

Asia Report

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

Analysis

Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Analysis

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

Analysis

After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

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

Two foreign activists -- Brazilian Thiago Ávila and Spanish Palestinian Saif Abukeshek -- from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were kidnapped and taken to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May 3 and again two days later

Analysis

Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi

Asia Report

NZ govt must rebuke Israeli envoy over beating of citizens, says...

Fiji Times journalist Alifereti Josefa-Sakiasi speaking at the combined Fiji universities' World Press Freedom Day talanoa

Democracy

Media programmes at USP, FNU join forces for World Press Freedom...