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Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

Commentary

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port predator fight goes on

July 30, 2026

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John Minto: When TVNZ’s Israeli ‘counter-terrorism’ op against Palestinians is actually a lie

An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed

Asia Report

Human Rights Watch report says Indonesia is silencing environmental activists in Papua

Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

Business

Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton Port

Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

Asia Report

Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green MP

Gazan journalists calling for open access to the besieged Palestinian enclave . . . more than 200 journalists and media freedom groups signed a petition demanding free media access and protection for Palestinan media workers

Asia Report

Al Jazeera abruptly terminates contracts of Palestinian journalists in Gaza in...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 2, 2026

7amleh's Nadim Nashif

Asia Report

Meta censoring Palestinian content – and here’s proof of ‘platformicide’

Pacific Media Watch -

August 1, 2026

A lack of scrutiny and action from the international community, including New Zealand, is allowing illegal atrocities to continue in Gaza

Asia Report

NZ’s shameful silence on Gaza is potentially complicity with genocide

August 4, 2026

"Democracy not deals"

Civil Society

Saige England: We spoke truth to power and the powerful folded

Pacific Media Watch -

August 3, 2026

Trump's bluster works once

Asia Report

When Trump’s Iran ‘deal’ isn’t a deal – it’s the third...

August 2, 2026

Lyttelton local and environmental campaigner Sara Campbell

Asia Report

Saige England: Capitalism. Colonialism. Why the DP World money trail leads...

July 23, 2026

Papuan activist and former political prisoner Filep Karma

Human Rights

Filep Karma: A Papuan human rights hero and huge loss...

November 2, 2022

Zionist lawyer Yehuda Shimon

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: All mainstream Western institutions view Palestinian lives as worthless

August 5, 2026

Disappeared Pesta Babi star Yasinta Moiwend - Mama Sinta

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Indonesia has ‘kidnapped’ Pesta Babi star to cover up ecocide, claims...

June 3, 2026

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 21, 2026

KNPB spokesperson Ogram Wanimbo

Asia Report

KNPB plans coordinated demos across Papua on New York Agreement anniversary

August 5, 2026

A Nile crocodile, the creature to be deployed in Israel's Ketziot Prison moat

Asia Report

Media avoids Israel’s sadism like a crocodile-infested moat

July 22, 2026

The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World

Asia Report

Saige England: A tale of power being taken from the people...

July 18, 2026

Iranian and Palestinian flags at a New Zealand rally against the war on Iran and the Gaza genocide

Asia Report

New Zealanders warned not to transit through MidEast as Trump threatens...

July 24, 2026

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Asia Report

Why the Trump administration is running scared of the global criminal...

July 22, 2026

US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia

Asia Report

Lim Tean: What is an American signature by Trump actually worth?

July 27, 2026

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

Asia Report

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

July 27, 2026

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago

Asia Report

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 18, 2026

A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism

Asia Report

Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

July 20, 2026

In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free

Asia Report

John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

Pacific Media Watch -

July 5, 2026

PSNA flyers supporting Palestine

Asia Report

Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru...

July 26, 2026

The world spent 40 years building an oil reserves shock absorber for exactly this war

Asia Report

The illegal US war on Iran – and now the economic...

July 23, 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

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

Asia Report

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

Gazan journalists calling for open access to the besieged Palestinian enclave . . . more than 200 journalists and media freedom groups signed a petition demanding free media access and protection for Palestinan media workers

Asia Report

Al Jazeera abruptly terminates contracts of Palestinian journalists in Gaza in...

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

Commentary

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...

NZ's Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Democracy

Chlöe Swarbrick kicked out of House after challenging Speaker’s ‘double standards’

Trump's bluster works once

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When Trump’s Iran ‘deal’ isn’t a deal – it’s the third...

EDITOR'S PICKS

In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership

Asia Report

NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo

KNPB spokesperson Ogram Wanimbo

Asia Report

KNPB plans coordinated demos across Papua on New York Agreement anniversary

Zionist lawyer Yehuda Shimon

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: All mainstream Western institutions view Palestinian lives as worthless

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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

In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership

Asia Report

NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo

KNPB spokesperson Ogram Wanimbo

Asia Report

KNPB plans coordinated demos across Papua on New York Agreement anniversary

Zionist lawyer Yehuda Shimon

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Caitlin Johnstone: All mainstream Western institutions view Palestinian lives as worthless