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Pro-Palestinian protesters at a New Zealand solidarity rally in Auckland

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Israel’s endgame for tormented Gaza is political and physical erasure

April 25, 2025

Mango dawn

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Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns

"Fiji’s peacekeepers have historically operated where communities accepted their role"

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Gaza peacekeeping deployment – five clear questions Fiji cannot ignore

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Iran trolls Trump with AI-generated LEGO video – now ‘banned’

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Bryan Bruce: A private school own goal and policy betrayal by the Greens

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

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Eugene Doyle: Mark Carney’s moment – a new non-aligned movement?

January 22, 2026

Screenshots from Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah resident Mona ElKurd's Instagram video

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Illegal Israeli settler: ‘If I don’t steal your house, someone else...

May 18, 2021

New Zealand moved back towards its traditional security relationships

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

February 24, 2023

NZ PM Jacinda Ardern

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

September 22, 2021

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Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy

May 21, 2023

The United Nations has called for an independent international investigation into a devastating blast at the packed Al Ahli Arab Hospital

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Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims

Pacific Media Watch -

October 22, 2023

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Free media week killings underscore crimes of impunity against journalists

May 3, 2018

A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel

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Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 2, 2025

Auckland's Eden Park World Women's Rugby Cup opener

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Black Ferns: a new dawn for global women’s rugby

October 9, 2022

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NZ unveils free TV broadcasting package for Pacific

December 16, 2015

Israel destroying Gaza and now Jenin

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Mars, watch out — President Trump’s coming for you too

January 24, 2025

Justice for West Papua

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

August 15, 2022

A poster promoting a protest against the Gaza genocide planned for outside the South Australian Parliament

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Why NZ should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

January 7, 2024

Fire and Fury screenshot

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A NZ media conundrum over how to cover the ‘dangerous’ conspiracists

Pacific Media Watch -

August 21, 2022

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Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners

May 30, 2019

Bainimarama and Xi

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The Taiwan ‘prize’ and the US-China rivalry in the Pacific

December 16, 2020

Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

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War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...

March 13, 2026

"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

March 7, 2025

The Kanaky delegation in Paris

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Unfinished business over New Caledonian decolonisation – new challenges after ‘stolen’...

April 19, 2023

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Herzog backlash crushes Albo’s ‘social cohesion’ – thousands protest nationwide

February 9, 2026

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Amanda Watson: Does PNG rank highly for internet porn searches?

Pacific Media Watch -

January 31, 2017

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Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred...

May 22, 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

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

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"

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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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Cook Islands caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown and US Ambassador Jared Novelly exchange gifts

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Defenders of the International Criminal Court, led by the pan-European group Eumans, rally in Rome

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In late-June, PNG Prime Minister James Marape instructed all provinces

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‘On another scale’ – PNG province unprepared for El Niño impacts,...

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Fiji’s HIV epidemic has yet to reach a ‘turning point’, warns...

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NSW Premier Chris Minns

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An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

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Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

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Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

Australia's march for humanity and an end to Israel's Gaza genocide

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Australia, don’t be surprised. Israel does this to Palestinians all the...

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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

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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NSW Premier Chris Minns

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An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

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Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

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Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians

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‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...