Marshall Islands v Big Nuclear – will Pacific people get the...
By Jen Maman
In April 2014, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a tiny island country part of Micronesia, filed groundbreaking lawsuits to the International...
Quill award winner Adele Ferguson slams Fairfax media job cuts
Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson has accepted the Graham Perkin journalist of the year award at the state of Victoria's Quills, using her speech to...
Veiqia Project reawakens woman’s role in Fijian society
By Susan Epskamp
The Veiqia Project Exhibition is now open at Auckland University of Technology’s St Paul St Gallery Three as a result of the...
Dan McGarry: Freedom of speech comes with responsibility
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
Julian Ligo recently published an online piece purporting to tell the "real" story down at the wharf, in which...
Culinary team lending skills to Fiji disaster fundraiser
By Melanie Cooper
Auckland University of Technology culinary graduates will be working side-by-side with some of New Zealand’s top chefs this weekend to help raise...
Vanuatu police appeal for calm, warn drivers to ‘behave professionally’
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
Vanuatu police have appealed to the public to remain calm and have warned drivers and owners of public transport...
Pasifika diaspora media book launched in NZ – first of its...
By TJ Aumua of Pacific Media Watch
A research report about Pacific media outlets in New Zealand was launched today at Auckland University of Technology...
Vanuatu DPM slams kidnap, attack on woman: ‘Enough is enough’
By TJ Aumua
The kidnapping and attack on a local Vanuatu female tourism manager, Florence Lengkon, has stirred strong criticism of violence against women in...
Vanuatu opposition alleges medical review of detainees may lead to pardon
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Opposition Leader Ishmael Kalsakau has alleged that the inclusion in the Vanuatu government’s "100-day plan" to review the health...
‘Stand up for our planet’ plea by 350.org founder Bill McKibben
350.org founder Bill McKibben's message to New Zealand. Video: Greenpeace NZ
Environmentalist Bill McKibben today appealed to New Zealanders to take part in peaceful civil...
Brave woman tells of beating by Vanuatu drivers – 7 arrested
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
A brave local woman has come forward with a shocking story of out-of-control violence in Vanuatu.
Bus and taxi drivers...
18 Timorese freedom-seekers recall courageous voyage
By Vannessa Hearman and Jose da Costa
In 1995, 18 East Timorese youths sailed illegally to Australia in a small fishing boat. After five nights...
ABC Four Corners crew avoid charges over Malaysian PM incident
The ABC Four Corners news team in Malaysia have been told they will not be charged over an incident with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib...
Forum wins improved recognition for Pacific climate concerns
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) has been given observer status in the board of the UN Green Climate Fund (GCF), Secretary-General Dame Meg...
‘Farm to Table’ plan will open door for many Pacific youth
More than a thousand Fijian, Vanuatu and Samoan youths will be helped to secure employment through organic agriculture with the launch of a US$1.5...
Iwi leaders join UN scrutiny of Treaty, indigenous rights
New Zealand’s performance on the Treaty of Waitangi, indigenous rights, privatisation of prisons and the Trans Pacific Partnership will be raised this week at...
Pacific-wide study tipped to show ‘real value’ of lost fisheries
By Lealaiauloto Fatu Tauafiafi in Auckland
Seventeen Pacific island countries, including New Zealand and its territory Tokelau, will have the results of a Pacific-wide study...
ABC Four Corners crew arrested over reporting Malaysian corruption allegations
An ABC Four Corners investigative programme crew has been detained by Malaysian police after trying to question Prime Minister Najib Razak over a corruption...
New report tells of murder, kidnapping and torture in West Papua
By Mark Bowling
Allegations of recent military and police intimidation, beatings and torture, kidnapping and murder in West Papua, have been documented in a new...
Josie Butler: TPPA ‘roadshow’ facade – it’s really a ‘rogue show’
By Josie Butler
This week marks the beginning of the New Zealand government’s national roadshow on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), a roadshow that...