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Trump speaks of transforming Gaza into a magnificent "Riviera of the Middle East"

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Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism

February 11, 2025

Samoan Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa

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Samoa’s first female leader has made history – now she faces a challenging future at home and abroad

Defiant pariah state leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our global standing

Missing NZ-British aid worker Andrew Bagshaw

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NZ aid worker remains missing in Ukraine – the tragedy of helpers in war zones

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‘Time of anxiety’ – a depressing new normal for local journalists in conflict zones

The Pacific Newsroom

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

March 23, 2021

Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

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Behind the tears for Shireen, more evidence of Israel’s daily crimes...

May 12, 2022

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How a law change in PNG has fostered prime ministerial incumbency...

May 2, 2022

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Closure of AAP is yet another blow to public interest journalism...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 4, 2020

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Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling

October 18, 2019

When a journalist is killed in a besieged war city, the loss is no longer personal

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When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to...

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August 20, 2025

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Eelco Rohling: We need to get rid of carbon in the...

April 20, 2017

Papua Governor Lukas Enembe

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Fate of Papua’s Governor Enembe – the ‘son of Koteka’ –...

September 24, 2022

Anzac Day . . . that spirit of humanitarianism

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New lessons about old wars: keeping the complex Anzac Day story...

April 25, 2023

The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report

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Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 26, 2025

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Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change ethically misguided and dangerous

Pacific Media Centre -

February 2, 2020

Palestinians, forcibly displaced to the southern part of Gaza by Israel, make their way north

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The fake Gaza ‘peace agreement’ versus real peace with justice

October 12, 2025

It’s important to remember that these events have only happened because Israel has imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip since March

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Thou shalt protect Israel: The West’s first and only commandment

June 6, 2025

Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier

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Gavin Ellis: NZ government media teams that breach the law

Pacific Media Watch -

October 6, 2022

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Bryan Kramer: One year in – why so quiet about corruption...

September 17, 2020

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

January 22, 2017

Emotions are running high among Kanak independence supporters

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Violence erupts in New Caledonia as independence supporters oppose legislation in...

May 15, 2024

Declassified Australia

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Media targeting public for a war with China, warns Declassified Australia

Pacific Media Watch -

September 29, 2023

Desecration of Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral by baton-wielding armed Israeli police

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Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 17, 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

A street artist adds to a mural of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh

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John Minto: Exposing Israel’s horrific record in targeted killing of journalists

Pacific Media Watch -

June 11, 2022

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Autocracy strikes back: Media freedom under siege in Arabia

July 11, 2017

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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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Crime

Man linked to gang activity dies after Fiji military detention, local...

A young Gazan journalist describes her setting up for story telling about Al Shifa Hospital

Asia Report

Gaza’s young, untrained journalists step up to document Israel’s war crimes

"Israel’s supporters in the West have launched the biggest assault on free speech since the height of McCarthyism"

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Owen Jones: At The Telegraph, journalist support for Israel is now...

The Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Major-General Jone Kalouniwai,

Crime

Fiji police confirm murder probe launched into death of man in...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Assassinated Amal Khalil

Asia Report

Targeted Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil bombed and left to die by...

Pro-Palestnian Professor John Keane (left) and linguist and vice-president of the USyd National Tertiary Education Union, Dr Nick Rieme

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Antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Sydney Uni pressure to silence Israel, apartheid critics

Jone Vakarisi . . . asked if he was planning a coup

Crime

‘His life mattered’: Family of man who died in Fiji military...

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...

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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

Assassinated Amal Khalil

Asia Report

Targeted Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil bombed and left to die by...

Pro-Palestnian Professor John Keane (left) and linguist and vice-president of the USyd National Tertiary Education Union, Dr Nick Rieme

Analysis

Antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Sydney Uni pressure to silence Israel, apartheid critics

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's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal (from left), Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod, and vice-chancellor Mark Scott at Sydney University

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Sydney Uni appoints antisemitism ‘lecturer’, forgets to tell anybody