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RFMF Territorial Brigade soldiers taking part in the three-day Operation Genesis exercises in Fiji

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Joint Fiji forces tackle civil strife, flash flood crisis and rebels in exercise

March 21, 2025

A crew member on board the RAN frigate HMAS Stuart monitors the Chinese Navy's missile destroyer Zunyi and the supply ship Weishanhu

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Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world

The Pacific and the world

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Call for fresh Blue Pacific rules-based order: ‘Our home, our rules’

A "No Nuclear Winter" placard at a pro-Palestine rally in Auckland at the weekend

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‘Back off AUKUS’, Greens MP Tuiono warns NZ in wake of Trump row

Staff leave the Newshub studio in central Auckland

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RNZ Mediawatch: Under the sinking lid from offshore tech companies

FAA-licensed Rocket Lab, a spaceport at Mahia Pensinsula

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

November 14, 2024

Condemnation of "despicable acts" by French colonialism

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‘Stop the violence, killing against Kanaks’ plea by Vanuatu MPs

June 21, 2024

The GCSB building in Wellington

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Te Kuaka calls for urgent law change on spy agency, warns...

March 22, 2024

An upgraded HMAS Stirling in Western Australia

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

March 20, 2024

PNG riot police and Defence Force officers on duty

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PNG’s police chief David Manning reinstated after Black Wednesday riots

January 26, 2024

"Shame on the NZ govt"

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Israel wants a Palestinian intifada in the West Bank. It may...

January 19, 2024

Gaza devastation as the result of the relentless Israeli bombardment

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Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from...

November 24, 2023

Aotearoa New Zealand's defence and security puzzle

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Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public...

August 13, 2023

A lone protester raises the Morning Star flag of West Papua

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Indonesia upgrades NZ pilot operation in West Papua to ‘combat ready’

April 19, 2023

An airstrike narrowly misses a civilian vehicle in Myanmar

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Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’

Pacific Media Watch -

February 2, 2023

International peace researcher Owen Wilkes

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Memories from Sweden of the dedicated peace researcher Owen Wilkes

December 15, 2022

A video still showing Indonesian security forces using water cannon to suppress peaceful West Papuan protesters

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This is more sinister than you think – my people’s freedom...

Pacific Media Watch -

December 13, 2022

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

HMNZS Aotearoa (docked) and HMNZS Wellington in Nuku’alofa

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Australia and New Zealand compete with China for Tongan influence

January 24, 2022

Fua'amotu International Airport coated in ash

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Tonga eruption: Airport runway cleared of ash, says WHO official

January 20, 2022

Atatā island, Tonga 18012022

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Tonga eruption: Images appear to show most of Atatā island wiped...

January 19, 2022

Mango island, Tonga

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Tongan government confirms all homes on Mango destroyed, fears death toll...

January 19, 2022

A P-3K2 Orion aircraft flies over Nomuka island

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Gallery: What the NZ air crew saw at Tonga’s Nomuka –...

January 18, 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

Zhang Zang

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Chinese, Palestinian journalists and Pegasus Project win free press awards

Pacific Media Watch -

November 20, 2021

US military juggernaut

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‘Fortress USA’: How 9/11 produced a military industrial juggernaut

September 11, 2021

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RSF, Moroccan-French journalists file complaint over Pegasus spy saga

Pacific Media Watch -

July 23, 2021

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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

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

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

Analysis

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

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

Coronavirus

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

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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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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

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Decolonisation

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini

Civil Society

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies

New Zealand's Governor-General, Dame Cindy Kiro, with journalist and educator Dr David Robie at the investiture ceremony

Civil Society

Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism

After three months of forced starvation, desperate Palestinians were herded into caged food distribution sites set up by the US and Israeli governments

Asia Report

Israel bombs Gaza journalist’s home, kills 8 – shoots 3 in...

EDITOR'S PICKS

RSF has filed four complaints with the ICC over war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza and were at the Cannes Film Festival to pay tribute to Fatma Hassoun

Asia Report

Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza...

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

Analysis

Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Decolonisation

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

Analysis

Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

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

RSF has filed four complaints with the ICC over war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza and were at the Cannes Film Festival to pay tribute to Fatma Hassoun

Asia Report

Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza...

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

Analysis

Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

After three months of forced starvation, desperate Palestinians were herded into caged food distribution sites set up by the US and Israeli governments

Asia Report

Israel bombs Gaza journalist’s home, kills 8 – shoots 3 in...

PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

Analysis

Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections