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A state visit to Australia "presented to us not as diplomacy, not as geopolitics, not as a strategic signal, but as 'healing'"
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Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust
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"New Zealand has an opportunity to get ahead of the global backlash"
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"Fiji’s peacekeepers have historically operated where communities accepted their role"
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Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right
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