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“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.
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Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

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How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy
Analysis

The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and the destruction of wāhine Māori candidates

PIF Secretary General Baron Divavesi Waqa welcomed Israel’s Ambassador to Fiji and Pacific Island Countries, Maya Yaron, and Head of MASHAV, Ambassador Eynat Shlein,
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Israel votes against decolonisation for Pacific at UN – then says it has become PIF partner

Gaza family tents as far as they eye can see
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NZ’s foreign policy obligation to confront Israel’s Gaza genocide

A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide
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Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

Starved for Peace - Mr Fish
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Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

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A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday
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Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

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Iranian and Palestinian flags at a solidarity rally in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today
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Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not...

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Israel accepts the ceasefire
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Ramzy Baroud: The fallout – winners and losers from the Israeli...

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June 24, 2025
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New Zealand protesters in Auckland yesterday condemning the genocide in Gaza
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US strikes: Ignore the propaganda, 10 forces will shape the Iran-Israel...

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June 22, 2025
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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have protested in Iran against Israel.
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Another Iraq? Military expert warns US has no real plan if...

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June 22, 2025
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Destabilised uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, and possibly the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could cause them to vibrate and spin uncontrollably
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Eugene Doyle: How centrifugal forces have been unleashed in Iran

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June 20, 2025
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It is more likely that Israel launched its attack to stop US and Iranian negotiators from meeting
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A war on diplomacy itself – Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran

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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters
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Why New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands over...

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Middle East Eye editor-in-chief David Hearst
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Iranians hold posters of late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head Hossein Salami (left), and late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri (right), who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent days
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Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you...

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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron
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Decoding PNG leader Marape’s talks with French President Macron

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June 17, 2025
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Protesters from the Maghreb taking part in the Land March to Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip
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Why Israel’s shock and awe has proven its power but lost...

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"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...

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June 15, 2025
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A Merkava tank in Gaza pictured at the moment a Hamas resistance fighter emerged from a tunnel to plant an explosive device
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A video like no other – why the Israeli military revealed...

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New Zealand’s foreign policy stance on Palestine lacks transparency

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June 8, 2025
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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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Independent writer Eugene Doyle
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Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide

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June 2, 2025
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Solidarity from another decolonisation struggle - West Papua
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Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing...

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NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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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

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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
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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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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
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
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Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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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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How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy
Analysis

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"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"
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Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre
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“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.
Analysis

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"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"
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Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre
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"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

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Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

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Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini

Gaza media: ‘Why we document history – even if accountability feels...

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