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A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

Civil Society

Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

Pacific Media Watch -

March 18, 2025

Besma at the "Free Palestine" rally in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau

Civil Society

NZ rally honours ‘voice of Palestine’ poet and marks Christchurch massacre

Labour Party's associate foreign affairs spokesperson Phil Twyford (right) receives the open letter

Civil Society

100 Christian leaders’ open letter calls for NZ humanitarian visas for trapped Gaza families

Israel has regularly breached the first phase of the three-phased Gaza ceasefire agreement

Civil Society

PSNA open letter calls for NZ to condemn Israel’s ‘weaponisation’ of Gaza humanitarian aid

Eugene Velasco of the progressive Filipino feminist NGO Gabriela

Civil Society

International Women’s Day activists protest in solidarity with Palestinians

No Other Land . . . Oscar winning film for best documentary

Civil Society

‘Our film won an Oscar. But here in West Bank’s Masafer...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 4, 2025

Civil Society

Activists scale NZ building in protest against global weapons company

March 3, 2025

Cook islanders protest in the streets of Avarua today

Civil Society

Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government

February 18, 2025

Civil Society

Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 13, 2025

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

Civil Society

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

February 11, 2025

The USAID controversy featured on New Zealand's 1News tonight

Civil Society

Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws independent journalism into chaos

Pacific Media Watch -

February 8, 2025

What of young Australian people?

Civil Society

Support for changing date of Australia Day softens, but remains strong...

January 27, 2025

The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network

Civil Society

Fiji solidarity network welcomes Gaza ceasefire but calls for ‘justice, accountability’

January 24, 2025

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Civil Society

Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear

January 23, 2025

"If people believe social media platforms are full of scams and hoaxes, they won’t want to spend time there or do business on them."

Civil Society

An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers –...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 10, 2025

BDS focuses on the actions of Israel as a colonial, occupying power

Civil Society

Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of...

January 9, 2025

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Civil Society

Descendants of NZ’s Waitangi Treaty translators speak out against bill

January 9, 2025

A protest over a controversial and widely condemned series of heavily armed nationwide Te Urewera raids

Civil Society

An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia...

January 8, 2025

By turns over his long career, Michael Leunig was a poet, a prophet and a provocateur

Civil Society

The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet: the sometimes...

Pacific Media Watch -

December 22, 2024

Serving an "eviction notice" on the Israeli Embassy in Aotearoa New Zealand in November 2023

Civil Society

Civil society groups call on NZ to bar new Israeli envoy...

December 18, 2024

Nelson votes to sanction Israel

Civil Society

Nelson City Council joins NZ local bodies voting to sanction Israel

December 5, 2024

Arab New Zealanders have been increasingly articulate in Aotearoa

Civil Society

This year, Arab-American political power came to the fore over Gaza

December 4, 2024

"Drop the genocide" banner at today's protests against Israel's war on Gaza in Christchurch Ōtautahi

Civil Society

Open letter plea by NZ community broadcaster for end to Israel’s...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 29, 2024

Rising Tide Newcastle coal port protest protesters on Sunday

Civil Society

Climate protests to continue despite 170 charged in Newcastle ‘protestival’

November 28, 2024

"Killing long after they fall"

Civil Society

Lack of Gaza aid, Israeli impunity puts Palestinians at risk over...

November 25, 2024

John Miller's photograph of the 1975 Land March held up in the same location at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke Wellington.

Civil Society

Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 24, 2024

"Zion Times - Sanction Israel now" Bibi commits genocide - war criminal"

Civil Society

Six Israeli soldiers die by suicide – thousands get mental health...

November 23, 2024

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

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?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

Tweet to @DavidRobie
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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

The flags of Guam and the US

Asia Report

Guam at decolonisation ‘crossroads’ with resolution on US statehood

A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

Civil Society

Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

Culture

Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro

Analysis

Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history

EDITOR'S PICKS

Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

Culture

Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

Protesters in Auckland call for a permanent end to the war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and for justice

Analysis

New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable

A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

Civil Society

Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

A crew member on board the RAN frigate HMAS Stuart monitors the Chinese Navy's missile destroyer Zunyi and the supply ship Weishanhu

Asia Report

Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world

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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

Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

Culture

Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

Protesters in Auckland call for a permanent end to the war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and for justice

Analysis

New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable

A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

Civil Society

Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

A crew member on board the RAN frigate HMAS Stuart monitors the Chinese Navy's missile destroyer Zunyi and the supply ship Weishanhu

Asia Report

Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world