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Nine-Fairfax merger warning for investigative media – and democracy
By Andrea Carson in Melbourne
If you value the media’s watchdog role in democracy, then the opening words in the deal enabling Channel Nine to...
Noumea visitors help Vanuatu celebrate 38 years of freedom
By Len Garae in Port Vila
An estimated more than 4000 strong crowd threatened to spill over into the parade grounds at Independence Park during...
Freedom Flotilla leader condemns Israeli brutality – Treen in jail
The Al Jazeera interview about the Israeli "hijacking" of the Freedom Flotilla in international waters on Sunday.
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Freedom Flotilla Coalition spokesperson David...
Israeli forces blockade the Gaza ‘blockade busters’ – Treen detained
PressTV report - Mike Treen detained.
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Israeli forces have reportedly stopped the three-vessel Freedom Flotilla which was nearing the Gaza Strip, report...
Plea for help from NZ protester on board ‘hijacked’ Gaza peace...
Mike Treen's message via YouTube. (Distorted audio - click on subtitles).
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New Zealander Mike Treen, national director of the Unite Union and...
‘Why we’re protesting over Gaza’, Swedish feminist, flotilla skipper tell
Dimitri Lascaris Reporting From the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Video: The Real News
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Real News reporter Dimitri Lascaris on board the Al Awda...
Reconciling New Caledonia: A vote to clear the air on independence?
In the final instalment of a three-part series, Dr Lee Duffield in Noumea assesses some of the options and omens.
It looks like a simple...
Gaza Freedom Flotilla: A predictable end to an unpredictable journey?
By Chris Graham on board the Al Awda
If you’re an optimist, then I’m about 24 hours from Gaza. If you’re a pessimist, then I’m...
‘My message to the Israeli soldiers – what will you tell...
An open letter from former Israeli Air Force "rescue" pilot Yonatan Shapira on board the Al Awda bound for Gaza.
My name is Yonatan Shapira...
No injuries in Vanuatu ‘runway excursion’ emergency landing
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
An Air Vanuatu ATR-72 made an emergency landing in Port Vila today. The aircraft, which had 39 passengers and...
Komo Airfield landowners give PNG government ‘last warning’ over deal
Komo landowners spokesman John Pipija calls for "no more excuses". Video: EMTV News
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Komo International Airfield landowners in Hela have given the...
Decolonisation in New Caledonia – who decides the future?
In this second of three articles from Noumea, Dr Lee Duffield learns about multicultural Kanaky/New Caledonia and the events that led to their referendum...
New Caledonia celebrates Bastille Day and thinks about independence
IN-DEPTH: By Dr Lee Duffield, recently in Kanaky/New Caledonia
The Quatorze Juillet (14 July) events in Noumea this month, as in any small French city,...
An open letter to Israel: The global ‘blockade busters’ ...
By Chris Graham on board the Al Awda
By the time you read this, I’ll be sailing on an old, converted fishing trawler from Sicily,...
Sylvester Gawi: Papua New Guinea, a dream of the new...
By Sylvester Gawi in Singapore
I hope you are reading this with ease and a positive mindset to help change the course of this beautiful...
‘It’s up to God and the land’ on Vanuatu’s Ambae volcano...
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
Over the course of a week earlier this month, a French/Ni-Vanuatu documentary team ventured to the summit of Ambae’s...
PNG needs to ‘pull its weight’ over Bougainville vote, says Momis
By RNZ Pacific
The President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville has raised concerns that the Papua New Guinea Government is not pulling its weight...
Traumatised Papuan villagers flee Indonesian military in Nduga
By RNZ Pacific
Thousands of West Papuan villagers have reportedly fled from their homes in a remote regency due to conflict between Indonesian military forces...
Indonesia risks ending up with a doomed ‘can’t-do’ climate plan
By Warief Djajanto Basorie
Three hundred schoolchildren from the greater Jakarta area sat on a red carpet covering the cavernous Soedjarwo auditorium—named to honour the...
Indonesian anti-corruption watchdog arrests nine, including House member
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators have arrested nine people during a raid in Jakarta, including a member of the House of...
Freeport’s $3.8b divestment mine deal – what it actually means
By Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman in Jakarta
Four Indonesian ministers gathered to witness the signing of an agreement between state-owned mining holding group PT Indonesia Asahan...
Five Palestinians cheering for France at the World Cup 20 years...
By Marwan Bishara
Twenty years ago, I was asked by the General Council of the Parisian suburb Seine-Saint-Denis to invite four Palestinian youth to attend...