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...
Asian human rights group condemns ‘illegal arrests’ of Papuans
The Asian Human Rights Commission has condemned the forced dispersal of peaceful Papuan protesters and their illegal arrest in Kampung Bhintuka-SP13 field in Mimika,...
Indonesia strengthens ties with Pacific ‘good friends’
By Fardah Pewarta in Jakarta
Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and his delegation's recent trip to Fiji and Papua...
Protests mount over massacre of Filipino farmers in climate demo
WARNING: Shocking images. Citizen video footage of the Philippines security forces in their increasingly savage use of force against the protesting farmers. Video: Kilab...
Two NZ-based journalists join Fiji ‘bearing witness’ climate change project
April will mark the urgency of action needed to address the issue of climate change with a collaborative project between the Pacific Media Centre...
Indonesian ‘tolerance’ under strain as anti-LGBT furore grows
By Sharyn Graham Davies
Indonesia is experiencing an unprecedented wave of anti-LGBT sentiment.
If there was a single event that has incited the current wave of...
Cyclone Zena weakens and quickly passes western Fiji
By Matilda Simmons in Suva
As quickly as Tropical Cyclone Zena arrived, it has dissipated dramatically.
According to the latest data it would be difficult to...
Panama Papers tax haven leak blow to NZ ‘corruption-free’ image, says...
Transparency International New Zealand has been warning the government about weaknesses in corporate ownership and trust legislation for more than 15 years, says the...
Panama Papers: China censors allegations, but Russian media note contents
A trailer for the Panama Papers global investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the...
New cyclone threatens children, families in Fiji
Only weeks after category 5 Cyclone Winston ripped through the country, Fiji is once again facing extreme weather conditions due to the presence of...
TJ Aumua takes on ‘niche’ job as Pacific Media Watch editor
TJ Aumua reflects on her PCF exchange scholarship in Fiji last year. PMC video
Auckland University of Technology honours graduate journalist TJ Aumua has been...
Deaths and food shortages have left PNG people feeling ‘forgotten’
Barbara Jackson, humanitarian director of CARE International, speaks about her experience of the drought in Papua New Guinea in a recent video.
Thousands of Papua...






























































