Built to last: Promises and challenges in PNG

PAPUA New Guinea (PNG) is a land of great beauty and vast but unrealised potential. With over 850 languages, rugged highlands and vast coasts, it is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse nations on

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Bad behaviour: The need for regional cooperation

Mid-last year, reports started surfacing that Deep Sea Mining Finance (DSMF) was extracting seabed minerals in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) exclusive economic zone (EEZ), unbeknownst to government and without permission

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Movers and Shakers

Captain Etika Tuisue has been appointed Chief Pilot and Flight Operations Officer for Fiji Airways, effective 1 August

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Movers and Shakers

Ann Patricia Naisara has been appointed as the newest member of the Habitat for Humanity Fiji Board of Trustees. Naisara is a highly respected legal professional with extensive experience across corporate law,

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Personalities kill island dream

ON a small island, strong personalities can kill national efforts in the blink of an eye. As Tonga prepares to host the Pacific Games, personal agendas have started to surface, threatening to stop the event from taking

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Second time unlucky? Tonga in strife over Pacific Games bid

IN 2012, Tonga was awarded the rights to host the 2019 Pacific Games. It was a historic decision made during the Pacific Games Council’s General Assembly in Uvea, and the result of a meticulous two-year campaign led

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Riding the wave: Charting our own course

FIJI Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka’s resolute declaration that the Pasifika remains “friends to all, enemies to none”, cutting through baseless speculation about Chinese military bases, wasn’t mere

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Balance is key: Veteran Wickham’s story

IN the sun-drenched islands of the Pacific, where stories are often passed down through generations by word of mouth, Dorothy Wickham found her voice and made it her life’s mission to help others be

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Make it safe: Regional push for safer, more inclusive journalism

THE inaugural Women in Media (WiM) Conference 2025 concluded in Suva, Fiji, after two days of dialogue, panel discussions, and policy engagement under the theme “Resilience in a Rapidly Evolving Media

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The church in politics

THE Pacific is often caught between two global powers: China and the United States–Australia alliance.

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Fueling hope in PNG

THE oil and gas sector makes up for around 5% of Papua New Guinea’s formal workforce of just under 400,000

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PNG fights energy crisis

IN recent years, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has faced a fuel crisis which threatened to shut down the aviation industry and starve remote communities of critical medicine and

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A tale of courage

NEWSROOMS are pressure cookers – people racing against weekly, daily, and hourly deadlines. And sometimes the race is against multiple deadlines in three different

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The future of work: Pasifika worldviews – tools for change

THE modern workplace continues to go down the path of individualism, with the unofficial mantra being “It’s a dog eat-dog world”. The root of this problem, ironically, lies at the

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Parliamentary report calls for action on Mā’ohi nuclear survivors

A major new report on the consequences of French nuclear testing in Mā’ohi Nui (French Polynesia) has been released by a parliamentary commission of inquiry in

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Strengthening SPNFZ: nuclear entanglement or nuclear free?

FORTY years ago, on 6 August 1985, the Pacific Islands Forum adopted the Treaty of Rarotonga for a South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone (SPNFZ).

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Time for action: Leaders want more than words

AT the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France, Pacific leaders once again brought strength, clarity, and urgency to global ocean

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Exploring the depths: Ocean health mission for partners

IN response to growing concerns about the state of its ocean, Fiji’s government invited the National Geographic Pristine Seas team to explore and assess the health of its marine

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On the rise: Women take in energy roles

WOMEN are steadily carving out space in the energy and construction sectors—industries long dominated by men—despite facing persistent

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Hard labour: Foreign workers and local policies

FOREIGN workers and the agencies that facilitate their employment are playing a growing role in addressing the Pacific’s skilled workforce

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Eighty years after Hiroshima, Pacific calls for nuclear disarmament

EIGHTY years ago, on 6 August 1945, the Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas, flying towards the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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A sun rises and blinds the people

BEFORE he was installed as Tui Nayau—overlord of Fiji’s eastern-most Lau Group of islands—Roko Tevita Kapaiwai Lutunauga Uluilakeba Mara appeared over the horizon.

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Rugby evolution: Ardie Savea inspires Moana Pasifika to change

With just over three years in the bug league—the Super Rugby competition—Moana Pasifika have struggled to get more than a couple wins under their

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