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Flooding along the Sabeto to Waimalika Road, Fiji

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Heavy rain causes school closures, over 200 in evacuation centres in Fiji

March 18, 2024

A freak wave smashes through doors at the Roi-Namur space tracking facility

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Freak waves cause damage at US army base at Roi-Namur, shut airports

A ni-Vanuatu family at the Blacksands community in Port Vila on Efate Island in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Kevin

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Back-to-back cyclones in Vanuatu – stories of survival in ‘tough go’

The Waipaoa River, near Gisborne 140223

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Severity of damage ‘not seen in a generation’, says PM

A house on the banks of Nelson's flooded Maitai River

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Hundreds evacuated in NZ’s South Island floods – state of emergency

Pacific cyclones

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Fiji’s weather bureau predicts up to seven cyclones this season

October 24, 2022

The USP Next Generation Radio project

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Boosting Pacific digital media skills amid a cyclone – all part...

January 30, 2022

Flooding along the Sabeto to Waimalika Road, Fiji

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Heavy rain causes school closures, over 200 in evacuation centres in...

March 18, 2024

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters speaking

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NZ election 2023: ‘Too cavalier’ – scientists call out Peters over...

October 3, 2023

Port Vila-based journalist Dan McGarry has a big clean up on his hands

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Vanuatu residents ‘exhausted’ after two wild cyclones in three days

March 4, 2023

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Gallery: Stay away from flooded areas, Samoan police warn after Cyclone...

February 10, 2018

Torrential rain lashes West Auckland

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Auckland mayor declares emergency as wild weather lashes NZ’s north

January 28, 2023

An Eskdale road sign . . . one of the most devastated areas by Cyclone Gabrielle

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Cyclone Gabrielle: More heavy rain for NZ’s disaster-hit northern regions

February 24, 2023

A national state of emergency declared in Aotearoa New Zealand

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NZ declares national emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle unleashes fury across...

February 14, 2023

Crime reports as the post-cyclone Gabrielle clean-up operations continue

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Police report number of uncontactable people down to single...

February 26, 2023

NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

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‘Take care of each other’, says PM Hipkins after assessing Auckland...

January 28, 2023

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Devastating Cyclone Keni moves out of Fijian waters, clean up begins

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April 11, 2018

A Pacific protester blows a conch shell horn at the anti-mandate occupation atNZ Parliament

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NZ protest at Parliament enters sixth day – covid cases almost...

February 13, 2022

Uprooted trees on the island of Rota, Northern Marianas

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After Mawar, post-typhoon restoration process begins in Guam

May 26, 2023

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Urgent call for help on Kadavu island after Keni’s Fiji devastation

April 12, 2018

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Fiji family mourns death of mechanic killed in NZ tornado

June 21, 2021

Cyclone Gabrielle

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Cyclone Gabrielle: The science behind its massive power

February 13, 2023

Teachers from Otahuhu Primary School among the thousands at today's "mega strike" rally

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Thousands march through streets as part of NZ’s ‘mega strike’

October 23, 2025

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Tropical Cyclone Gita leaves trail of destruction in Tonga

February 13, 2018

A water spout off the Bay of Plenty coast near Waihi where a tornado hit

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Tornado hits Waihi Beach amid more wild weather in...

February 25, 2023

Filipino rescuers at work in Mangcayo barangay near Vinzons, Bicol

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Remote Mangcayo school among areas hit by Typhoon Kristine floods

October 28, 2024

A slip at Tauranga in New Zealand's North Island split this house in half

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Call NZ’s catastrophic deluge a ‘climate disaster’, says Greenpeace

January 30, 2023

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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"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

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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

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

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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

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"

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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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

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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)

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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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Israel’s attack on Lebanon was “one of the deadliest single bombing campaigns

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‘Ten minutes of terror’ – Lebanon death toll tops 300 from...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

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Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28

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Iran threatens retaliation over Gulf ‘piracy’ in Trump’s naval blockade

A "New Zealand government must sanction Israel" banner flutters on one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

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Global Sumud Flotilla heads from Barcelona to break Gaza blockade

Flooding near Whitianga cuts off a state highway.

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Cyclone Vaianu: Damaging winds, heavy rain hit NZ’s North Island

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa's Neil Scott and protesters marching in the Stop Wars Aotearoa rally

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Protesters rally across Aotearoa in condemnation of Israel, US ‘warmongering’ and...

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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

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins

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Why Trump’s naval blockade to ‘strangle’ Iran is a joke

Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28

Analysis

Iran threatens retaliation over Gulf ‘piracy’ in Trump’s naval blockade

A "New Zealand government must sanction Israel" banner flutters on one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

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Global Sumud Flotilla heads from Barcelona to break Gaza blockade

Breakaway A Fano Tia members, led by Tematai Le Gayic, appear dressed in white

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French Polynesia’s legislature shows new shape, more divisions