Wadan Narsey: Silent censorship denies Fiji public ‘alternative voices’
OPINION: By Professor Wadan Narsey
Just living in Australia for a few months and watching television, makes you see clearly, how the Fiji public is...
Tell the truth about West Papua, journalists told at rights forum
By Margaret Wise of The Fiji Times
Giving voice to the voiceless and championing the rights of all people is essentially about telling the truth.
And...
Deportation, violence linger in Australia’s Pacific offshore centres
As tensions in Nauru continue to simmer, asylum seekers in Australia's other immigration centre on Manus Island have been told they would either be...
Fiji’s climate change patterns hit pristine coral reefs hard
Almost two months following the most devastating cyclone to have ever hit Fiji, the country’s people and biodiversity are still struggling towards recovery, Anuja...
Vanuatu’s Appeal Court upholds 10-year ban on 14 former MPs
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
The Supreme Court decision to ban the 14 convicted former MPs from holding public offices in Vanuatu for 10...
Crime scandal shows NZ’s climate policy is ‘hot air’, says Greenpeace
Greenpeace New Zealand has called for the "linchpin" of New Zealand’s climate policy to be thrown out following a report released today that shows...
Indonesian forces arrest 15 Papuan activists in Kaimana, wreck office
By Arnold Belau in Jayapura
Indonesian security forces have arrested 15 West Papua National Committee (KNPB) activists and vandalised the KNPB secretariat in Kaimana district,...
Amnesty International criticises denial of NZ visa to Iran filmmaker
The Dokhtar Forooshi song Sonita - "Brides for Sale".
Stop press: A visa has been subsequently granted to the Iranian filmmker
Amnesty International has criticised the...
Veteran climate scientist forecasts loss of all coastal cities
Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms ... Professor Hansen speaks on the science and implications. Video: Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions
An “alarming” new...
World leaders still ‘hiding behind fossil fuels’, says Rainbow Warrior skipper
At the helm of Greenpeace environmental campaign vessels for more than 30 years, Peter Willcox talks with Kendall Hutt about climate change and his...
Pacific graduate students win on AUT annual awards night
Pacific Media Watch contributing editor TJ Aumua won the SPASIFIK Magazine Prize and Storyboard Award for diversity reporting at AUT's School of Communication Studies...
Pacific journalists make human rights declaration for ‘voiceless’
Video clip of the final "living document" declaration by Pacific journalists and media officers at the human rights forum in Nadi, Fiji, over the...
PNG judge arrested, charged with judicial corruption
Anti-corruption police have arrested and charged a Papua New Guinea Supreme Court judge with judicial corruption, reports Loop PNG.
Judge Bernard Sakora, 68, of the...
Education joins forestry against climate change in Vanuatu
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
The Shefa Education Office will soon be rolling out its newly launched forestry programme to primary and secondary schools...
PNG trial begins for Rabaul Shipping ferry disaster case
By Sally Pokiton in Kokopo
The owner and managing director of Rabaul Shipping will stand trial at the Kokopo National Court this week -- four...
Bryan Bruce: Staring into the face of the TPPA ‘shamocracy’
By Bryan Bruce
I spoke at my first parliamentary Select Committee hearing in New Zealand this week.
It was on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and...
Polar bear mojo for Greenpeace captain’s environmental thriller
The Arctic 30's thank you message after their release in November 2013 - cited in Peter Willcox's new book out next week. Video: Greenpeace
Review...
Tax havens among biggest foreign owners of NZ, says CAFCA
The Panama Papers have shone a most welcome - and long overdue light into the murky world of tax havens, offshore trusts and shell...
‘Invisible’ Pacific, indigenous presence at UN disappoints NZ team
By TJ Aumua
Six of the Auckland participants who attended the UN Commission of the Status of Women held in New York in March have...