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Justice

Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree? None

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January 26, 2021

Coronavirus

NZ covid: 14 close contacts of Northland case test negative

Australia

RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’

Justice

PNG court orders police chief David Manning to vacate office

ASIA PACIFIC REPORTS

Justice

Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree?...

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January 26, 2021

COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer, PNG's Minister of Police who has defended Commissioner Manning's appointment today in The National My last article, announcing that I intend...

NZ covid: 14 close contacts of Northland case test negative

January 26, 2021

RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’

January 26, 2021

PNG court orders police chief David Manning to vacate office

January 25, 2021

Civil rights groups raise concerns about Jokowi’s next police chief

January 25, 2021

NZ’s first community covid case since November travelled across Northland

January 24, 2021

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate

Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact

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January 22, 2021

By RNZ Pacific The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum has welcomed the re-entry of the United States to the Paris agreement over climate change. Within...

Analysis

Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s...

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January 21, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path Two weeks after the storming of...

Bryan Bruce: The hope that arises in spite of the chaotic...

January 9, 2021

Landslide claims 13 lives at Tolukuma mine in PNG’s Central province

December 29, 2020

Echoes of the Rainbow Warrior – have the lessons been learned?

December 14, 2020

Gallery: ‘Admirable leadership’ of young Pacific Climate Warriors clinches peace prize

December 11, 2020

FEATURES AND ANALYSIS

Justice

Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree?...

APR editor -

January 26, 2021

COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer, PNG's Minister of Police who has defended Commissioner Manning's appointment today in The National My last article, announcing that I intend...

Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s...

January 21, 2021

As Joe Biden becomes president, US still reels from deadly consequences...

January 20, 2021

The Conversation’s submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the News...

January 20, 2021

Confusion reigns over real reasons for burning of missionary plane in...

January 16, 2021

With covid-19 mutating and surging, NZ urgently needs to tighten border...

January 14, 2021

MULTIMEDIA

Australia

RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’

Pacific Media Watch -

January 26, 2021

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arbitrary and opaque experiments that Google is conducting with its search engine in Australia,...

K Road Chronicles – looking at NZ’s homelessness from the inside

January 17, 2021

Echoes of the Rainbow Warrior – have the lessons been learned?

December 14, 2020

Gallery: ‘Admirable leadership’ of young Pacific Climate Warriors clinches peace prize

December 11, 2020

Jakarta ‘regrets’ Morning Star flag protest at Melbourne consulate after...

December 6, 2020

Gallery: PMC celebrates Pacific ‘reset’ vision and farewells founding director

December 5, 2020

HUMAN RIGHTS

Asia Report

Civil rights groups raise concerns about Jokowi’s next police chief

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January 25, 2021

By Devina Halim in Jakarta The Security sector Reform Coalition says there are three problems which need to be addressed when the sole candidate for...

Climate

Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact

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January 22, 2021

By RNZ Pacific The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum has welcomed the re-entry of the United States to the Paris agreement over climate change. Within...

To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in...

January 22, 2021

Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s...

January 21, 2021

ULMWP accuses Indonesia of ‘ethnic cleansing’, aggression against Papuans

January 21, 2021

Chancellor defends UP as ‘bastion of academic freedom’ against military

January 20, 2021

INSTITUTIONS

Justice

Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree?...

APR editor -

January 26, 2021

COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer, PNG's Minister of Police who has defended Commissioner Manning's appointment today in The National My last article, announcing that I intend...

Australia

RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’

Pacific Media Watch -

January 26, 2021

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arbitrary and opaque experiments that Google is conducting with its search engine in Australia,...

PNG court orders police chief David Manning to vacate office

January 25, 2021

Civil rights groups raise concerns about Jokowi’s next police chief

January 25, 2021

Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact

January 22, 2021

To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in...

January 22, 2021

MEDIA

Australia

RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’

Pacific Media Watch -

January 26, 2021

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arbitrary and opaque experiments that Google is conducting with its search engine in Australia,...

Global

To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 22, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, University of Melbourne Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a...

The Conversation’s submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the News...

January 20, 2021

K Road Chronicles – looking at NZ’s homelessness from the inside

January 17, 2021

RSF calls for ‘democratic obligations’ on leading digital players over Trump

January 16, 2021

Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back...

January 11, 2021

SPORTS

Coronavirus

Fiji tries to salvage Nations Cup rugby tour from covid ruins

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November 23, 2020

By RNZ Pacific Fiji's rugby team is set to have another round of covid-19 testing today as they seek to salvage what is left of...

Coronavirus

NZ detains three German yachties in Bay of Islands for defying...

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September 26, 2020

By RNZ News Three German yachtsmen - two men and a woman - have been detained after arriving in the Bay of Islands, in breach...

Australian officials admit Pacific ‘grand compact’ idea probe – NZ deal...

September 5, 2020

World’s first post-covid live rugby draws massive crowds in NZ

June 15, 2020

How George Simpkin taught Fiji the ruck-and-run game for World Cup

May 13, 2020

Pressure on Beaumont to investigate homophobic slurs by Fiji rugby chief

May 6, 2020

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

Development

Rebecca Kuku: PNG’s Gulf Province, ignored for too long but now...

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December 31, 2020

By Rebecca Kuku in Kerema Gulf Province is only six hours away from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capital city, and is one of the...

Climate

Greens sweep 10 seats in huge NZ win for climate crisis,...

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October 18, 2020

By RNZ News The Green Party say voters have given a strong signal they are valued in the New Zealand government, and they have ambitions...

1.2m Indonesian workers laid off as coronavirus crushes economy

April 10, 2020

Brexit referendum asked the wrong questions, says AUT academic

January 22, 2019

Contribution by Pacific community more than money, says academic

November 21, 2018

O’Neill replies on Maseratis, shuns ‘racist’ critic as opponents call strike

October 15, 2018

CLIMATE AND COVID

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Climate

How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Analysis

Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

Climate

How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific

CORONAVIRUS

Coronavirus

NZ covid: 14 close contacts of Northland case test negative

Coronavirus

NZ’s first community covid case since November travelled across Northland

Climate

Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact

Coronavirus

Papua New Guineans defy national mask-wearing rules in spite of covid

Coronavirus

Helen Clark-led covid-19 review panel calls for ‘global reset’ over pandemic

Coronavirus

‘Walk the talk’ human rights warning from Fiji NGO over UN...

BEARING WITNESS

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

Bearing Witness

Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere

Bearing Witness

Banabans of Rabi short climate change documentary chosen for Nuku’alofa

Bearing Witness

Pacific storytelling with a focus on the ignored and ‘untold’ issues

APJS NEWSFILE

APJS newsfile

While PNG promotes APEC big money, youth are building grassroots resilience

APJS newsfile

40 luxury Maseratis for PNG, but little effort put into climate...

APJS newsfile

Tukuitonga goes into battle on behalf of Pacific for WHO position

APJS newsfile

Memo NZ: ‘Get on the right side of history’ over West...

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MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Analysis

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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PNG court orders police chief David Manning to vacate office

EDITOR'S PICKS

Democracy

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Analysis

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GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Coronavirus

NZ covid: 14 close contacts of Northland case test negative

Coronavirus

NZ’s first community covid case since November travelled across Northland

Climate

Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact

Global

To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in...

ARTS & PERFORMANCE

The genocide next door – West Papuan band spreading message of freedom

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November 8, 2019

By Moale James “West Papuans are being denied their basic human rights … Human beings have a right to freedom. Freedom to be treated fairly...

Tagata Pasifika: Youth lead indigenous storytelling at Moana Loloto

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October 9, 2019

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Young Pasifika performers and artists came together last week for Moana Loloto, a night of indigenous storytelling to explore four pressing...

Outrage, opposition to Cook Islands Rocketman ban

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June 18, 2019

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A prominent Cook Islands lawyer intends to take a court challenge against the censor’s impending ban of the film Rocketman, reports the...

Cook Islands to follow Samoa and ban Rocketman

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June 17, 2019

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The movie Rocketman is likely to be banned in the Cook Islands, despite having already been in the cinema for a...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Coronavirus

Reserve Bank investigates cyber attack – latest in NZ digital breaches

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January 11, 2021

By RNZ News A cyber security expert says attacks like the latest on the Reserve Bank could be due to the type of data systems...

Education

Papuan students succeed in NZ – ‘the golden generation from Papua’

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December 24, 2020

By Laurens Ikinia As late South African President Nelson Mandela said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”...

LATEST REVIEWS

Gender

Pioneering saga of early Otago horse whisperer author’s dream come true

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December 24, 2020

Asia Pacific Report For Margaret Mills, adventurer, environmental campaigner, activist poet and Greenpeace stalwart, it was a lifetime dream coming true at 91. When she opened...