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Deir el Balah in 2024

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What ceasefire? People still being killed and Gaza still under siege

July 12, 2026

New Zealand moved back towards its traditional security relationships

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

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 on his own citizens

President Trump's so-called "Board of Peace"

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Gaza’s future stuck in diplomatic limbo as ‘Board of Peace’ blocks progress for self-determination

Pacific Islands Forum 2022 in Suva

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Australia and New Zealand’s ‘deafening silence’ on Pacific democracy and human rights

High-level Israeli officials are currently accusing the ICJ

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Caitlin Johnstone: Israel accuses the ICJ of (you guessed it) antisemitism

Pacific Media Watch -

January 27, 2024

The first satellite image of the bombing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran on the opening day of the surprise and illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran

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Neither preemptive nor legal, US-Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up...

March 2, 2026

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Barbara Dreaver: Why is NZ and the world turning its back...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 13, 2018

Robert Reich's message to President Donald Trump

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President Trump, don’t listen to your sycophants on Iran, this isn’t...

April 3, 2026

The Pacific Newsroom

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Social media ‘bullshit’ threatens coping with covid-19 outbreak in PNG

March 23, 2021

A collage of the many fires on New Caledonia’s Catholic missions

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New Caledonia crisis: Another church burns, spate of attacks continues

September 10, 2024

International arrivals NZ

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

June 17, 2020

Shin Ok-ju, founder of Grace Road Church

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Senior figures question Fiji government’s close links with ‘doomsday’ cult

July 29, 2022

Lawyer Richard Naidu outside the High Court in Suva

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Wadan Narsey: Shameful silences over another unfolding tragedy in Fiji

October 18, 2022

"The message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out."

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Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

May 20, 2026

Trust in News in NZ

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Digital news check: In media, we don’t trust

Pacific Media Watch -

April 30, 2021

Donald Trump's 'go home' plea

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Social media giants have finally confronted Trump’s lies. But why wait...

January 8, 2021

Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata'afa 260521

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Samoan democracy hangs in the balance as a constitutional arm wrestle...

May 26, 2021

Justice for West Papua

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Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’

August 15, 2022

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NZ journalists arrested in Fiji now free but no new era...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 10, 2019

Flashback to 15 March 2019:

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Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks

March 15, 2020

The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

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The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

July 10, 2026

Timor-Leste oil protest

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

June 12, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for...

June 27, 2026

China and the Solomon Islands media

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China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector

Pacific Media Watch -

March 20, 2026

Indonesians demonstrate in front of the US Embassy in Jakarta to show solidarity with Palestinians on the second anniversary of the war on Gaza on 7 October 2025

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Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping mission risks enforcing a ‘broken’ status quo

November 27, 2025

BDS focuses on the actions of Israel as a colonial, occupying power

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Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of...

January 9, 2025

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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

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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

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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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...

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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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PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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Papua New Guinea seeks dialogue over new hefty $20,000 US visa...

The Free Palestine Party

Asia Report

Free Palestine Party becomes latest political party in Aotearoa

Australia's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal

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The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for

An Auckland protest against Rocket Lab's implication in the Gaza genocide earlier this year

Asia Report

Palestinian Kiwis, Māori doctor file claim against NZ govt over Gaza...

EDITOR'S PICKS

An Auckland protest against Rocket Lab's implication in the Gaza genocide earlier this year

Asia Report

Palestinian Kiwis, Māori doctor file claim against NZ govt over Gaza...

Australian Antiosemitismn Commission Jillian Segal (centre) with husband John Roth (right)

Asia Report

The Segal State 2 – the mask, the children, the money...

Solomon Islands journalist George Atkin

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Pacific media figures pay tribute to Solomons legend George Atkin

Cooks Islands leaders participated in a youth debate on Monday

Cook Islands

Cost of living, water tariffs, mining on Cook Islanders’ minds ahead...

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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

An Auckland protest against Rocket Lab's implication in the Gaza genocide earlier this year

Asia Report

Palestinian Kiwis, Māori doctor file claim against NZ govt over Gaza...

Australian Antiosemitismn Commission Jillian Segal (centre) with husband John Roth (right)

Asia Report

The Segal State 2 – the mask, the children, the money...

Solomon Islands journalist George Atkin

Editor's Picks

Pacific media figures pay tribute to Solomons legend George Atkin

The same officials colluding in Israel’s current crimes by shipping arms to Israel

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Britain’s Big Brother state is already here – we just don’t...