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Super Saturday vaccine dose numbers rise to 130,002 – 51 new...
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The number of covid-19 vaccinations given out during New Zealand's Super Saturday event yesterday has just ticked over the 130,000 mark.
In a statement...
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Panguna campaigner Theonila Matbob wins award over Rio Tinto challenge
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Bougainville community leader and MP Theonila Roka Matbob has received the Gwynne Skinner Human Rights Award in recognition of her outstanding work...
Bainimarama: Pacific faces tough climate, disease challenges – world leaders need...
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Fiji Islands Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is the current Chair of the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum. Addressing the...
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PNG and Fiji were both facing covid catastrophes. Why has one...
ANALYSIS: By Ian Kemish, The University of Queensland
Things were looking very bad three months ago for both Papua New Guinea and Fiji. The two...
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Māori health plea for NZ covid level 4 ‘circuit breaker’ ban...
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National Māori Pandemic Group Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā co-leader Dr Papaarangi Reid has supported a return to a level 4 lockdown over the...
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PNG and Fiji were both facing covid catastrophes. Why has one...
ANALYSIS: By Ian Kemish, The University of Queensland
Things were looking very bad three months ago for both Papua New Guinea and Fiji. The two...
Māori health plea for NZ covid level 4 ‘circuit breaker’ ban...
RNZ News
National Māori Pandemic Group Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā co-leader Dr Papaarangi Reid has supported a return to a level 4 lockdown over the...
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Super Saturday vaccine dose numbers rise to 130,002 – 51 new...
RNZ News
The number of covid-19 vaccinations given out during New Zealand's Super Saturday event yesterday has just ticked over the 130,000 mark.
In a statement...
PNG and Fiji were both facing covid catastrophes. Why has one...
ANALYSIS: By Ian Kemish, The University of Queensland
Things were looking very bad three months ago for both Papua New Guinea and Fiji. The two...
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How NZ’s Public Interest Journalism Fund can help ‘normalise’ diversity
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific ReportThe announcement in February of a new $55 million, three-year Public Interest Journalism Fund...
Rappler’s Maria Ressa, Russia’s Dmitry Muratov win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 announced in Oslo today. Video: Rappler livestream
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Rappler chief executive Maria Ressa of the Philippines and...
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Health officials detect 83 covid-19 cases at controversial Papuan Games
By Desi Purnamawati and Uyu Liman in Jakarta
Eighty-three covid-19 cases have been reported during the Indonesian National Games (PON-XX) being held in Papua as...
‘Get vaccinated before it gets you’ plea from PNG anti-vaxxer champ
PNG Post-Courier
Phyonna Silikara Gangloff is a champion Papua New Guinean squash player.
Fit and healthy, the 37-year-old mother of two lived a normal life until...
SOCIO-ECONOMICS
Bainimarama’s covid bragging rebuked as ‘shameful and despicable’ by Prasad
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Fiji's opposition National Federation Party has blamed 1150 pandemic deaths on the Bainimarama government’s "shameful and despicable" ego-driven leadership.
“Stop bragging and...
NZ imported more than a million tonnes of ‘dirty’ coal last...
By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter
In the same year that the government declared a climate emergency, imports of an especially dirty type of coal...
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The genocide next door – West Papuan band spreading message of freedom
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“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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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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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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The movie Rocketman is likely to be banned in the Cook Islands, despite having already been in the cinema for a...
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Why we must not allow covid to become endemic in New...
ANALYSIS: By John Donne Potter, Massey University; Graham Le Gros, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Rod Jackson, University of Auckland
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Jo Spratt: ‘Free’ covid jabs are making the mega-rich richer
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When this novel coronavirus first swept the world last year, it was quickly obvious global vaccination was the only way out.
Governments...
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