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ABC's Tahlea Aualiitia

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ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and its storytellers

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2023

Analysis

Albert Schram: My wrongful dismissal and malicious prosecution – a warning

Analysis

Tess Newton Cain: We need a new law about kava … or do we?

"What Trump and Musk and Vance and the supine Republicans are doing are installing an imperial, militaristic domestic dictatorship"

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Trump has ‘declared war against the American people’, says Ralph Nader

Australia's National Press Club sponsors include the world’s two biggest weapons makers

Analysis

Weaponising media – National Press Club and its arms industry sponsors

Press freedom Index

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Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom

April 23, 2020

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Tess Newton Cain: We need a new law about kava …...

January 21, 2017

Singer, documentary maker, storyteller and TV presenter Moana Maniapoto

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Moana Maniapoto: Why trashing the BSA is a sign of journalism...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 7, 2026

Covid alert - there were good things too

Analysis

Nick Rockel: Memories of the two-year covid safety struggle –...

March 30, 2022

Analysis

Democracy Now! and the Bernie Sanders US revolution

January 16, 2016

Freed West Papuan leader Victor Yeimo

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Release of Victor Yeimo from Indonesian prison rekindles West Papuan fight...

September 24, 2023

First responders carry the bodies of several children

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The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’...

August 14, 2025

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Uneasy calm in PNG’s Highlands as O’Neill sends in massive force

June 24, 2018

Democracy Now host Amy Goodman interviewing economist Dr Laleh Khalili

Analysis

End of the petrodollar? How Iran war is reshaping the global...

March 22, 2026

UNRWA social work teams organise activities

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Israel’s planned expulsion of UNRWA – time for UN to walk...

January 15, 2025

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USP saga lesson for Pacific future: No more looking the other...

June 26, 2020

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Marape makes rare PNG visit to NZ to boost friendship, model...

February 21, 2020

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden

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As Australia signs up for nuclear subs, NZ faces hard decisions...

March 18, 2023

Women’s solidarity march, Sydney, 2017

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Is the #MeToo era a reckoning, a revolution, or something else?

March 8, 2022

Analysis

End sexism and ‘invisibility’ of women in the media

December 4, 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

President Prabowo Subianto

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Prabowo’s presidency sparks fear and faint hope in Indonesia’s contested Papua

October 23, 2024

Digital platforms

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The Conversation’s submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the News...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 20, 2021

"New Zealand has an opportunity to get ahead of the global backlash"

Analysis

Bryce Edwards: What the Epstein scandal means for NZ politics

February 16, 2026

Repression is a characteristic of Iranian government policy, but not the only characteristic

Analysis

Ian Powell: Iran, US imperialism and the New Zealand lapdog

March 20, 2026

Chinese diplomacy in the Pacific

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Steven Ratuva: Pacific agency: A devalued political capital?

June 27, 2022

West Papua on Google

Analysis

How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education

February 15, 2022

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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

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

POPULAR POSTS

Look at this image. The thin white lines are what remains of the world’s most important oil artery - the Strait of Hormuz

Analysis

Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar...

Iranian Ambassador to New Zealand Reza Nazar Ahari

Asia Report

Iranian Ambassador: Why the US blundered so badly – diplomacy and...

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel

One of the capsized boats off the coast of PNG's East New Britain

Disasters

27 missing, including 11 children, after two boats capsize off Papua...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The Akaroa Mail editor and owner Michael de Hamel, 41 years at the helm

Business

NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years

Fiji's Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC)

Democracy

Fiji’s former chief prosecutor claims govt conspiracy to remove him

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel

Iranian Ambassador to New Zealand Reza Nazar Ahari

Asia Report

Iranian Ambassador: Why the US blundered so badly – diplomacy and...

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

Fiji's Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC)

Democracy

Fiji’s former chief prosecutor claims govt conspiracy to remove him

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel

Iranian Ambassador to New Zealand Reza Nazar Ahari

Asia Report

Iranian Ambassador: Why the US blundered so badly – diplomacy and...

Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and rightwing Israelis under military protection storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque

Asia Report

Palestine Forum of NZ condemns ‘provocative’ Israeli assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque,...