Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch is compiled for Asia Pacific Report as a regional media freedom and educational resource by a network of journalists, students, stringers and commentators.
Debunked – Israel’s top 10 lies on Gaza, as exposed by...
Pacific Media Watch
The New York Times recently revealed that the Israeli military has “never found proof” that Hamas has “systematically stolen aid from the...
Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend...
COMMENTARY: By Clancy Overell, editor of The Betoota Advocate
After years of sitting on the fence and looking the other way, the Australian media is...
Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on...
Pacific Media Watch
Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on the Israeli arms and surveillance industry, says Australian protesters are “outraged” not...
As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival
Asia Pacific Report
Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they...
‘We pose no threat – our aim is to break the...
No New Zealanders were on board the Handala in the latest arrest and abductions of Freedom Flotilla crew on humanitarian siege-busting missions to Gaza....
Handala freedom ship loaded with Gaza aid bracing for Israeli forces
Asia Pacific Report
An activist on board the Handala, a Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship carrying aid to the besieged enclave in a bid to break...
Gaza: Global community must act amid reports of starvation of journalists,...
By Jamie Wiseman
The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined calls for urgent action to halt the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza as global news...
Leaked document reveals proposed law revisions in NZ, as Western defence...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mick Hall
A leaked document has revealed secretive plans to revise terror laws in New Zealand so that people can be charged...
Gaza – an open question for NZ’s foreign minister Winston Peters
OPEN QUESTION: By Bryan Bruce
Dear Rt Hon Winston Peters,
There was a time when New Zealanders stood up for what was morally right. There are...
Sky TV to buy channel Three owner Discovery NZ for $1
By Anan Zaki, RNZ News business reporter
Sky TV has agreed to fully acquire TV3 owner Discovery New Zealand for $1.
Discovery NZ is a part...
Flying the flags for Palestine – NZ protesters take message to...
The Devonport Flagstaff
About 200 people marched in Devonport last Saturday in support of Palestine.
Pro-Palestine flags and placards were draped on the band rotunda at...
Susi Newborn among activists featured in Pacific ‘nuclear free heroes’ video
Pacific Media Watch
Greenpeace pioneer and activist Susi Newborn is among the "nuclear free heroes" featured in a video tribute premiered this week in an...
First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’
Occupied West Bank-based New Zealand journalist Cole Martin asks who are the peacemakers?
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin
As a Kiwi journalist living in the occupied...
Australian bid to criminalise Palestine support creates ‘hierarchy of racism’, says...
Pacific Media Watch
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on the New Zealand government to not follow Australia’s policy moves which would effectively criminalise...
Author David Robie joins Greenpeace virtual tour of Rainbow Warrior
Greenpeace
Join us for this guided "virtual tour" around the Rainbow Warrior III in Auckland Harbour on the afternoon of 10 July 2025 -- the...
Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing
TVNZ 1News
The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has sailed into Auckland to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior in...
How live TV technology changes have opened up remote areas of...
By Anish Chand in Suva
How Pacific live media communications have changed in the past 21 years.
In May 2004, the live broadcast of Ratu Sir...
Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Octo Mote
Pacific Media Watch
West Papuan independence advocate Octovianus Mote was in Aotearoa New Zealand late last year seeking support for independence for West Papua, which...
Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast
Pacific Media Watch
In July 1985, Australia's Pacific territory of Norfolk Island (pop. 2188) became the centre of a real life international spy thriller.
Four French...
Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Rev Mua Strickson-Pua
Pacific Media Watch
When advocates and defenders of a nuclear-free Pacific condemned the AUKUS military pact two years ago and warned New Zealand that the...
The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report...
Asia Pacific Report
In the new weekly political podcast, The Bradbury Group, last night presenter Martyn Bradbury talked with visiting Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal.
They...
Israeli soldiers ‘ordered’ to fire at Gaza aid seekers – 70...
The New Arab
Israeli soldiers have said that they were ordered to open fire at unarmed Palestinian civilians desperately seeking aid at designated distribution sites...
