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Niue's Dalton Tagelagi
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Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale
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A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media
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Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’

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A free speech forum at Lingkaran Abepura in Jayapura last Monday
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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A photo of Indigenous West Papuan civilians in Distrik Tembagapura, Mimika, Central Papua, allegedly wounded by use of excessive force by Indonesian military
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May 17, 2026
Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

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