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It is more likely that Israel launched its attack to stop US and Iranian negotiators from meeting

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A war on diplomacy itself – Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran

June 19, 2025

PNG's Catholic Archbishop of Port Moresby Cardinal Sir John Ribat welcomes Pope Francis during his four nation Pacific and Southeast Asian tour

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Pope Francis – a message of peace and real change in Pacific political struggles

Professor Pal Ahluwalia

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Albert Schram: University governance, academic freedom and institutional autonomy in the Pacific

Pro-Palestinian students hold a sit-in at Melbourne University

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In Australia, pro-Palestinian voices face a frenzy of Zionist McCarthyism

Independent writer Eugene Doyle

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Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide

Pacific Journalism Review celebrates 30 years of publishing

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Pacific Journalism Review turns 30 – and challenges media over Gaza

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July 7, 2024

Timor-Leste oil protest

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Timor-Leste’s lost oil millions blamed on Australia’s ‘rip-off’

June 12, 2019

Wellington City Councillor Nureddin Abdurahman

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Open letter to Peters: We fought fascism. Why are we silent...

April 7, 2026

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens was photographed with his rebel captors in Indonesia's Papua region

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I was involved in stalled talks to free kidnapped NZ pilot...

June 15, 2023

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

Oscar-winner Hamdan Ballal, co-director of No Other Land, being treated for injuries

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It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West...

April 1, 2025

Iranian and Palestinian flags at a solidarity rally in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today

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Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not...

June 28, 2025

The “sponge city” concept is gaining traction as a way to mitigate extreme weather

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Creating ‘sponge cities’ to cope with more rainfall needn’t cost billions...

August 19, 2023

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown (left) fronting a media conference

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Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood

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January 31, 2023

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Indonesia’s 1965 purge – the persecuted and persecutors in safe space

May 2, 2016

"Genocide in Gaza" . . . New Zealand is swimming against the tide of world opinion

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Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide...

February 3, 2024

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Neoliberalism poisoned climate action and renewables are the antidote

August 3, 2016

Samoan AG Savalenoa Mareva Betham-Annandale.

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Samoa Observer: The Attorney-General’s fall from grace

May 28, 2021

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Women still not safe from sexual abuse in Indonesia’s ‘rape culture’

July 27, 2016

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Are US and Iran headed for a military showdown before Trump...

January 5, 2021

Jacinda Ardern cartoon

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NZ election 2020: Jacinda Ardern promised transformation — instead, the times...

October 14, 2020

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

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

May 6, 2026

News Corp media

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High Court rules in favour of News Corp, but against press...

April 17, 2020

Journalists with facemasks

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Pacific governments accused of using virus crisis to cover media crackdown

May 6, 2020

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group

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MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for...

August 26, 2023

Palantir has been mired in controversy

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‘We kill enemies’ – spy firm Palantir secures top Australian security...

January 21, 2026

A "dove of peace" in Iran

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Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their...

April 14, 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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Beyond the Bubble

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Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally

Afghanistan

July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom...

A TPNPB resistance fighter stands guard on the charred aircraft remains

Asia Report

Fears of more conflict in West Papua after American pilot killed

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

China

‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

Civil Society

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

Analysis

Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...

Pacific Elders Voice group's chair Anote Tong

China

Pacific at a crossroads amid growing geopolitical tension, says former leaders’...

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

China

‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China...

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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

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

Civil Society

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

Tehran doesn't answer vulgarity with vulgarity

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‘They’re scum.’ F bombs and real bombs. Trump completely outclassed by...

Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jnr

Asia Report

Palau’s President warns of rising nuclear anxiety in the Pacific, after...

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

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Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...