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Murray Horton: Root causes of Manus refugee crisis need to be...
Papua New Guinea immigration officials last week started dismantling parts of a prison camp housing hundreds of defiant refugees as an evacuation deadline loomed...
NZ protesters lock gates of Australian High Commission in Manus protest
The squalor faced by Manus Island refugees in Papua New Guinea. TRT video
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand activists have chained themselves to the gates...
Fiji, Philippines campaigners call for ‘real climate leadership’ at COP23
Democracy Now! talks to campaigners from the Philippines and Fiji.
As the second week of the UN climate conference has got underway in Bonn, Germany,...
Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific neighbours out of climate compo
Pacific Media Report Newsdesk
Australia has picked up a second Fossil of the Day award at COP23 in Bonn for seeking to twist, water down...
Fiji’s devastated Tukuraki village moves to new site after landslide
A Pacific Media Centre video at Tukuraki by the Bearing Witness team Julie Cleaver and Kendall Hutt in May.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
After more than...
Pacific’s role and history of nuclear suffering boosted treaty success
ANALYSIS: By Dr Vanessa Griffen
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced earlier this month that the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to ICAN, the International...
Urban battle for Marawi finally over – 1000 dead, says Philippines
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The five-month battle against terrorists in the southern Marawi City on Mindanao has ended, Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announced today.
"After...
Murray Horton: Hey, Jacinda, let’s do this – be truly independent
OPINION: By Murray Horton, of the Aotearoa Independence Movement
Jacinda Ardern, we have some suggestions for when you go as New Zealand's incoming Prime Minister...
Disaster risk reduction event in West Papua a boost for sustainability
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Disaster risk reduction efforts need to be understood as investments to sustain development plans rather than mere budget expenditures, says Indonesia's...
Goodbye Maggie baggage – RIP neo-liberalism in NZ: 1984–2017
OPINION: By Frank Macskasy
Winston Peters has called it: NZ First is going into coalition with Labour-Greens.
In reality, it was the only decision he...
Jokowi’s foreign policy becomes more visible, says ex-envoy to US
Indonesia's foreign policy under President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has become more visible regionally and globally, contrary to popular assumptions from the early days of...
NZ’s Peters opts for coalition with Labour-Green in government
Jacinda Ardern's speech in full after being named next New Zealand prime minister. Video: Guardian Wires
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Queenmaker Winston Peters ended almost three...
PNG faces ‘catastrophe’ over health if no crisis action taken, warns...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
An unprecedented level of mismanagement of Papua New Guinea’s affairs since 2012 has caused serious health issues, including widespread suffering and...
John Minto: Urewera 10 years on – recounting the lessons of...
On the 10th anniversary of the Urewera raids, we should recount the lessons – and we should remember.
Breathless police and media commentary about a...
David Hall: Emissions, not migration, the real climate change issue in...
ANALYSIS: By David Hall of AUT's The Policy Observatory
The problem with climate change – like any wicked problem – is that its story can...
Phillip Miriori: Why Bougainvilleans are having their say – ‘No to...
OPINION: By Phillip Miriori
As many would be aware, we Bougainvilleans have been through a tough history with the disasters that came from the past...
Critics slam Indonesian military for meddling in national politics
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Critics have rebuked the Indonesian Military, or TNI, for meddling in politics, as it celebrated its 72nd anniversary last week, reports...
Meet Green MP Golriz Ghahraman, NZ’s first refugee in Parliament
By Kirsty Johnston of The New Zealand Herald
Most of Golriz Ghahraman's childhood memories are of war.
She remembers howling sirens, sending families scurrying into basements....
West Papua petition causes UN stir, but Papuans say demands still...
Australia's ABC News report on the banned West Papuan petition. Video: Lewis Prai Wellip
By Zely Ariane in Jayapura
A petition claimed to represent the wishes...
Max Lane brings millennial generation closer to works of Pramoedya
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk from Surya Malang, Indonesia
The name Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's foremost writer who was born in 1925 and died in 2006,...
Howling dogs all that’s left in volcano island Ambae’s empty villages
By Dan McGarry on Santo
Only the howling of dogs can be heard now in Ambae’s abandoned villages. The entire population has now been moved...
Josef Benedict: Rohingya crisis is a moment of truth for ASEAN
ANALYSIS: By Josef Benedict
Today, we are watching history repeat itself in Southeast Asia in the worst possible way.
Once again, the Myanmar military has launched...