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António Sampaio: Freedom of the press – rights, responsibilities and transparency

Pacific Media Watch -

January 30, 2019

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Lack of confidence in US leadership adds to coronavirus panic

Iranian missile damage in central Israel at an undisclosed location

Analysis

Israel caught in a permanent state of war mindset – peace is taboo

Iranians hold posters of late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head Hossein Salami (left), and late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri (right), who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent days

Analysis

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you cannot assassinate your way to peace

Covid vaccine research

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Jo Spratt: ‘Free’ covid jabs are making the mega-rich richer

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Wadan Narsey: Silent censorship denies Fiji public ‘alternative voices’

Pacific Media Watch -

April 20, 2016

Pro-Palestinian protesters carrying the Fiji and Tongan national flags

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War on Gaza: The US plan to revamp Palestinian Authority is...

January 21, 2024

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Muller’s ‘bolt from blue’ resignation leaves election hoardings standing

July 14, 2020

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Paul Buchanan: Soul-searching NZ must ‘own’ this terrorist attack

Pacific Media Watch -

March 24, 2019

Israeli mendacity and manipulation is pitifully predictable.

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Chris Hedges: The Gaza ceasefire charade

January 18, 2025

Pro-Palestnian Professor John Keane (left) and linguist and vice-president of the USyd National Tertiary Education Union, Dr Nick Rieme

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Antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Sydney Uni pressure to silence Israel, apartheid critics

April 23, 2026

Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son

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Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2025

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Scott Waide: Why sorcery superstition thrives in PNG where services are...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 26, 2017

The Biden administration’s dramatic escalation in Yemen

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Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into...

January 13, 2024

China graphic

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Xi Jinping’s grip on power is absolute, but new threats to...

June 28, 2019

Matariki

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Matariki falls during a quiet retail season – but NZ businesses...

June 23, 2022

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The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who are counting...

December 1, 2016

Kiingi Tuheitia is laid to rest at Taupiri maunga

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Mediawatch: Kiingi Tuheitia’s tangihanga – epic broadcast marks new epoch for...

September 8, 2024

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Australian fight to protect koala habitats in northern NSW heats up

August 26, 2023

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Media raids raise questions of police power over journalists, whistleblowers

Pacific Media Watch -

June 7, 2019

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

April 8, 2026

New Zealand moved back towards its traditional security relationships

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Ukraine a year on – how the invasion changed NZ foreign...

February 24, 2023

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Indonesia’s tug-of-war: The age of pseudo-military leaders rolls on

April 1, 2017

NZ climate action protest

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Climate Change Commission calls on NZ to take ‘immediate, decisive action’

February 3, 2021

James Shaw and Marama Davidson

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How the Greens have changed the NZ language of economic debate

October 9, 2020

This screenshot from a video broadcast on Israeli channel Now 14 shows an officer and four soldiers of Israel’s Givati Brigade standing next to Palestinian detainees

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Israel has ‘unleashed hell and destruction’ in Gaza genocide, says Amnesty...

December 6, 2024

Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi in Tehran

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Eugene Doyle: Axis of Genocide vs Axis of Resistance. Whose side...

November 8, 2024

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Tongan police are investigating the threat against a Kele'a journalist incident on April 23

Crime

Tongan police investigate journalist threatened at gunpoint after gang-related report

Fiji Times journalist Alifereti Josefa-Sakiasi speaking at the combined Fiji universities' World Press Freedom Day talanoa

Democracy

Media programmes at USP, FNU join forces for World Press Freedom...

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi

Asia Report

NZ govt must rebuke Israeli envoy over beating of citizens, says...

Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat (right) and FLNKS president Christian Téin during a meeting in Port Vila

Business

New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Brazilian humanitarian aid activist Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist

Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat (right) and FLNKS president Christian Téin during a meeting in Port Vila

Business

New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...

PINA president Kalafi Moala

Asia Report

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

Analysis

Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Brazilian humanitarian aid activist Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist

Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat (right) and FLNKS president Christian Téin during a meeting in Port Vila

Business

New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...

Two foreign activists -- Brazilian Thiago Ávila and Spanish Palestinian Saif Abukeshek -- from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were kidnapped and taken to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May 3 and again two days later

Analysis

Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion