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Cabinet Minister David Parker has thrown a real spanner in the works for Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

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Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more progressive path?

August 1, 2023

COP26 "failure"

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The ultimate guide to why the COP26 summit ended in failure and disappointment (despite bright spots)

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‘Most important years in history’ – last chance over climate, says UN report

Palestinian academic Sameer Barghouthi

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With the Gaza genocide, the world changed – sovereignty died and thuggery became a system

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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No bigger hypocrisy in the world than Israel complaining about Iran’s ‘lawbreaking’

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Hard to fight nature, but Fiji deserves better house building

March 12, 2016

Two decades of decline lie behind the invasion of Ukraine

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Ukraine crisis: how do small states like New Zealand respond in...

March 2, 2022

Journalists with facemasks

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Pacific governments accused of using virus crisis to cover media crackdown

May 6, 2020

International arrivals NZ

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2 new covid-19 cases in NZ, but elimination target still stands

June 17, 2020

Pictures of slain IRGC commanders and the Islamic Republic’s founder

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Why the Middle East fears a US-Israel attack on Iran

January 23, 2026

NZ's new Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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Peters has track record but NZ aid policy still hard to...

November 30, 2023

Digital certificates

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How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people...

March 6, 2021

This "Pied Piper" cartoon illustrating this commentary was drawn by Rod Emmerson.

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Gavin Ellis: A day to be gripped by fear – ‘freedom’...

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November 6, 2024

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Why we may have lost battle against China’s coronavirus

January 29, 2020

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Zinedine Zidane scores wonder try for France legends against Toulon

July 31, 2015

"Isn’t it time we woke from our deep slumber?"

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Is genocide the new normal? Could Israel and the US destroy...

June 15, 2025

Canberra media conference

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Yes, politicians need to change the way they treat women. But...

April 3, 2021

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‘Clean up’ snap election upholds Vanuatu rule of law

January 26, 2016

A Papuan protest against the "criminalisation" of Governor Lukas Enembe of Papua province

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Papua governor Lukas Enembe’s legal drama and tragedy in Jakarta

June 25, 2023

President Trump's obsession with Kharg island

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Why Trump’s ‘fantasy’ obsession with Kharg Island may lead to disaster

April 1, 2026

Associate law professor Maryam Jamshidi

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Who is breaking international law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s...

April 21, 2026

Ena Manuireva

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Ena Manuireva: AUT can – and should – do better

April 1, 2021

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Hidden women of history: Australian undercover journalist in hospitals

January 21, 2020

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Experts warn over Indonesian plan for fast track environmental deregulation

February 15, 2020

Pacific Climate Warriors

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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Sri Krishnamurthi -

October 12, 2020

What, then, have the two sides actually agreed to

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What on earth just happened? Trump, Iran, and the unlikely ceasefire

April 9, 2026

The two primary architects of a controversial war

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Monsters of war – the men who have put the world...

April 6, 2026

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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

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

Pacific Climate Warriors

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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

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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

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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

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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"

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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

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Commissioner Virginia Bell

Australia

Australian ‘antisemitism’ – the Royal Conflation Commission is in session

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Abducted NZ Gaza flotilla campaigner Sean Janssen

Asia Report

‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla...

A drone view of the Marshalls Energy Company's main power plant in Majuro

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Majuro reels from huge power rate increase, as govt steps up...

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Pacific media in action .

Crime

Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear

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The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

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Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

Activist Mike Smith

Climate

‘Affront to democracy’ – NZ law change halts landmark climate crisis...

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Australia

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

Jacinda Ardern

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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

Pacific media in action .

Crime

Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear

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The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

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Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

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Netanyahu stresses the need for more propaganda as Israel’s Hasbara budget...