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Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son

Iraq

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2025

A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday

Iraq

Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

Iranian and Palestinian flags at a solidarity rally in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today

Iraq

Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not US bomb-based statecraft

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

Iraq

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you cannot assassinate your way to peace

Australian journalist John Pilger addressing a Green Left-hosted public forum in 2014

Iraq

Vale John Pilger, at times a near-lone voice for truth against power

Husband and wife duo Lauren and Matt Barus perform under the stage name Terrible Sons

Iraq

First-ever recipients of ‘outstanding’ Asian music funding unveiled

July 3, 2023

Journalists who have paid with their lives

Iraq

1668 journalists killed in past 20 years (2003-2022), says RSF

Pacific Media Watch -

January 2, 2023

Iraq

Women-led protests in Iran gather momentum – but will they be...

October 14, 2022

Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Iraq

Step up efforts to free Assange after 3 years in jail,...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2022

Flashback to Fallujah 2003

Iraq

John Minto: Bucha – the Russian army’s Fallujah. Justice needed for...

April 7, 2022

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

BEARING WITNESS

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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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

"Let Gaza Live" says a placard in a New Zealand protest against the Israeli genocide and environmental devastation in West Auckland

Asia Report

Gaza’s water supply turns poisonous as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic legacy

Award-winning TVNZ investigative journalist Indira Stewart speaking at the Pacific Media International conference in Suva, Fiji, in July 2024. Papers from the conference are featured in the inaugural edition of Pacific Media being published today.

Editor's Picks

New Pacific Media journal launched in APMN and USP partnership

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support

"By helping each other we save each other."

Civil Society

Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Palau's Surangel S. Whipps Jr addresses the Climate Summit 2025, a high-Level special event on Climate Action, at COP30 in Brazil

Climate

Palau’s leader urges stronger climate action after New Zealand lowers methane...

"By helping each other we save each other."

Civil Society

Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...

Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by the Israeli military in air strikes in spite of the Gaza ceasefire on 19 October 2025

Asia Report

The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide –...

Australian journalist Roger Domm with Falintil resistance fighters in Timor-Leste in 1990

Asia Report

Timor-Leste’s Xanana Gusmão pays tribute to journalist Robert Domm over independence...

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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

Palau's Surangel S. Whipps Jr addresses the Climate Summit 2025, a high-Level special event on Climate Action, at COP30 in Brazil

Climate

Palau’s leader urges stronger climate action after New Zealand lowers methane...

"By helping each other we save each other."

Civil Society

Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...

Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus at Rarotonga port last month, holding banners proclaiming "Don’t Mine The Moana"

Cook Islands

Growing local opposition to seabed mining decision has forced Cook Islands...

Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by the Israeli military in air strikes in spite of the Gaza ceasefire on 19 October 2025

Asia Report

The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide –...