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There is a way to support companies that have made the change towards greater gender equity

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Want to support companies that support women? Look at your investments through a ‘gender lens’

March 8, 2023

China's BeiDou communications satellite

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Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is more about a looming new ‘tech cold war’

US President Donald Trump has deprived more than 400 million citizens of reliable information overnight

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New deal for journalism – RSF’s 11 steps to ‘reconstruct’ global media

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The presidential leak, PNG’s bid for Bougainville Copper and the policy challenge ahead

Part of the crowd paying tribute to the Gazan journalists who have been awarded the 2024 Guillermo Cano Media Freedom Award

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Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a terrible price in Israel’s genocidal war

West Papuan resistance over logging and mining projects

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West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 12, 2024

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China’s media control threatens Asia-Pacific democracies, says RSF

Pacific Media Watch -

April 26, 2018

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...

March 22, 2026

Jacinda Ardern cartoon

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

October 14, 2020

Nine arested in Fiji

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Fiji’s other crisis – away from the covid emergency, political dissent...

July 29, 2021

US President Joe Biden

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Biden’s pledge a start to restoring US climate change credibility

April 25, 2021

Germany defeated in the UN Security Council vote

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Lim Tean: Why standing on the wrong side of history cost...

June 8, 2026

The Pacific is not some rogue part of Tasmania. It’s an ocean of independent countries.

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Solomons security shambles, and now it’s time for realism over hype

April 26, 2022

Holy Shit. Cartoon by Mr Fish

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Chris Hedges: The political dysfunction of Trump as God

April 24, 2026

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Pacific value of ‘one family’ lost on Indonesian government

March 29, 2019

Kabul Airport suicide bombing wounded

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Who speaks for Afghans? Climate realities with the Taliban takeover

August 28, 2021

Trump and Netanyahu claim the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed

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Trump starts major ‘regime-change’ war with Iran, serving neoconservatism and Israel

March 1, 2026

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

NZ PM Jacinda Ardern

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In spite of relentless media negativity, NZ’s covid story is largely...

September 22, 2021

Shortage of healthcare workers

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Despite what political leaders say, New Zealand’s health workforce is in...

August 1, 2022

Indonesian military helicopters firing indiscriminately at civilian villages

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Yamin Kogoya: 60 years ago, Indonesia invaded West Papua with guns....

December 6, 2021

French humanitarian assistance and disaster relief may offer lessons to inform coordination

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How Australia can partner more effectively with France in the Pacific

July 15, 2023

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

May 29, 2018

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Obama’s legacy is bittersweet – and its chance of survival hangs...

January 22, 2017

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‘Hurricane’ Winston – we’re lucky catastrophe didn’t strike Suva

Pacific Media Watch -

March 7, 2016

Chinese oil supplies from Iran in Washington's sights

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Trump’s naval blockade of Strait of Hormuz actually targets China

April 16, 2026

Dark Times Academy's Mandy Henk speaking at the Asia Pacific Media Network event

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How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 26, 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

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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

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

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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...

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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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The New Arab's report in Arabic with a photograph of a pro-Palestinian rally in Auckland's Te Komititanga Square

Asia Report

New Zealand faces lawsuit over technology use during Gaza war

Regionalism and consensus are the best safeguards

Asia Report

Foreign espionage increasing in Pacific, says NZ’s spy agency

Mangaia's Agnes Armstrong

Cook Islands

Mangaia trio backs CIP, bringing ‘supermajority’ within reach

Daily Post editor and political commentator Martyn Bradbury and revealed complainant Ani O’Brien

Democracy

Free Speech Union board member revealed in Daily Blog editor Martyn...

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Indonesian police fire water cannon and tear gas on West Papuan demonstrators at Perumnas III Waena, Heram District, Jayapura City, Papua

Asia Report

Large demos across West Papua meet with mixed responses by police

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with extended whānau - family (he is pictured fourth from left)

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Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s...

Asia Report

Fiji’s Palestine solidarity group queries ‘unprecedented’ security for Israeli embassy

"A reckless game of chicken” in the Middle East

Asia Report

‘Menace to the world’: With Iran talks stalled, Trump vows to...

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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

Journalist and sports marketing official Charlie Charters

Democracy

Fiji High Court orders release of seven devices seized from journalist...

Indonesian police fire water cannon and tear gas on West Papuan demonstrators at Perumnas III Waena, Heram District, Jayapura City, Papua

Asia Report

Large demos across West Papua meet with mixed responses by police

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with extended whānau - family (he is pictured fourth from left)

Analysis

Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s...

"A reckless game of chicken” in the Middle East

Asia Report

‘Menace to the world’: With Iran talks stalled, Trump vows to...