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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Civil Society

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

January 23, 2025

Reunification of Movements for Change party leader Charlot Salwai

Civil Society

Former Vanuatu PM Salwai’s party to boycott parliament session

Kiribati dropped a bombshell at the Pacific Islands Forum

Civil Society

NZ should show real solidarity with the Pacific by embracing climate action

Indonesia's Director of Immigration Supervision and Enforcement, I Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram

Civil Society

Jakarta bans Papuan governor Enembe from vital medical treatment trip

Columnist Matthew Hooton's article justifying Foreign Minister Winston Peters' stance on Palestine

Civil Society

Misleading ‘justification’ column on Peters and Palestine panned

"No to neocolonialism" say Christian Tein of the protest group CCAT and thousands of Kanak protesters

Civil Society

Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots

May 17, 2024

Civil Society

Paga Hill iconic human rights film banned from PNG festival

October 13, 2018

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Oslo, 2017

Civil Society

Victims and survivors of nuclear testing honoured in Marshall Islands

March 1, 2024

Civil Society

Joan Macdonald, tireless peace and social justice campaigner, dies peacefully

August 14, 2016

'Battling Laavasa'

Civil Society

New Year’s Honours: Former boxing champion among 13 Pacific recipients

January 1, 2021

One of the about 20 mock bodies in the Gaza die-in at Te Komititanga Square today

Civil Society

Palestine protesters stage Gaza ‘die-in’ as leaders call for step up...

April 28, 2024

Civil Society

PNG cellphone users given new SIM card registration reprieve

May 18, 2018

Civil Society

Not enough funds for HIV/AIDS advocacy, says PNG cardinal

March 19, 2017

Civil Society

Bill Rosenberg: TPP wrong path – a nuclear-free moment

February 6, 2016

Civil Society

Juffa blasts PNG for ‘hypocrisy’ over deportation of NZ missionary

Pacific Media Watch -

June 20, 2017

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

Civil Society

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

November 13, 2025

Te Maruata chair Bonita Bigham

Civil Society

NZ local government: ‘We’re ready for change – it’s about youth...

July 23, 2022

"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

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Civil Society

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

January 9, 2025

UpScrolled . . . the Palestinian-Australian "free speech" platform

Civil Society

UpScrolled – the pro-Palestine platform shaking up social media

Pacific Media Watch -

January 30, 2026

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka with former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry

Civil Society

Historic Girmit Day apology accepted as Fiji enters new era of...

May 15, 2023

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

Civil Society

Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

May 26, 2025

The 1 May 2025 report by Talamua Online that led to the criminal libel case

Civil Society

Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism

Pacific Media Watch -

May 23, 2025

Former Komnas HAM chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik

Civil Society

Jakarta’s rights commission criticised for ‘failure’ over NZ pilot hostage case

July 9, 2023

No more kings?

Civil Society

Eugene Doyle: Venezuela and Trump’s war to save the Ancien Régime

November 4, 2025

Israeli President Isaac Herzog

Civil Society

Israel’s President Herzog faces ‘war crimes’ challenge over his Australia visit

January 24, 2026

Civil Society

Gallery: Yellow rose awards ‘celebrating change’ through women’s achievements

March 8, 2018

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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

"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

Civil Society

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

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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

Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters

Democracy

Fiji critic’s whistleblower case escalates anti-corruption crisis

Iran’s navy successfully launched the Sayyad-3G naval air defence missile

Analysis

How a US-Israeli attack on Iran could crash UK, German, NZ...

Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler

Civil Society

Roger Fowler, a legend of the Aotearoa solidarity movement, dies at...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Fiji

Fiji PM Rabuka stands by anti-corruption body after arrest of critic

EDITOR'S PICKS

Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut

Asia Report

Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut: An extraordinary sense of truth in an...

Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim

Analysis

Amnesty slams global impunity fueling Israel’s illegal West Bank annexation measures

Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte

Analysis

Duterte’s ICC pre-trial in The Hague: What prosecution, victims, defence say...

Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades

Crime

Inmates in critical condition after alleged attack by PNG corrections officers

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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

Solidarity author Eugene Doyle with Cuban Ambassador Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez

Analysis

Cuban ambassador denounces US aggression and violations of international law

New UK Green Party member Hannah Spencer

Decolonisation

Local plumber Hannah Spencer beats both Reform and Labour to win...

Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim

Analysis

Amnesty slams global impunity fueling Israel’s illegal West Bank annexation measures

Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte

Analysis

Duterte’s ICC pre-trial in The Hague: What prosecution, victims, defence say...