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NZ pilot Philip Mehrtens with some of his West Papuan rebel captors

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Two countries, two kidnappings – Port Moresby shows Jakarta how it’s done with 3 PNG hostages freed

February 27, 2023

Southern Highlands commander Chief Inspector Daniel Yangen (left) with Assistant Commissioner (Western) John Kale in Mendi

Crime

PNG police arrest suspect in torture and killing of women in ‘sorcery’ case

"It's more than ironic that while Western countries like Britain and New Zealand are calling for an end to the war in Gaza, they continue to be hostile toward the anti-war protest movements in their own countries"

Crime

Gaza: Empty rhetoric from New Zealand and other Western countries

French journalists stage a "die-in" and launch a petition at a solidarity rally for Gazan reporters

Crime

RSF condemns Israeli targeting of Gaza journalists – then slandering them in death

A poster promoting a protest against the Gaza genocide planned for outside the South Australian Parliament

Crime

Why NZ should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

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

Crime

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

Pacific Media Watch -

July 5, 2026

A screenshot of the student video

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UPNG’s student body rejects rape allegations over campus video

March 4, 2024

Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr

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K100,000 ransom paid for release of PNG hostages clarified as ‘third...

March 2, 2023

Fiji police officers Corporal Gerry McGoon (on left) and PC Sevania Manulevu on foot patrol along Victoria Parade in Suva

Crime

The Fiji Times: We need to work together in the war...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 10, 2023

Red Crescent rescue workers recover bodies of the 15 Palestinian ambulance and first responder crews killed by Israeli forces

Crime

The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows

April 7, 2025

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Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

Pacific Media Watch -

February 19, 2019

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

Crime

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

November 13, 2025

Rainbow Warrior

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NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing,...

June 29, 2020

How Al Jazeera reported the global reaction to the viral video of Indonesian military torture

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Indonesian military apologies fail to mask the harassment, gagging of Papuan...

March 29, 2024

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Crispin Maslog: A love-hate relationship with President Duterte

September 20, 2016

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Vehicle issued to Fiji assistant minister involved in fatal accident –...

June 15, 2025

Rescue of Tiro II crewman

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Fiji police question rescued fishing boat crew over alleged beheading

May 22, 2021

Assassinated broadcaster Federico "Ding" Gempesaw

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Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home

July 7, 2022

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20 years on, the disturbing case of journalist ‘JPK’ is still...

Pacific Media Watch -

December 16, 2017

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AUT vice-chancellor gives ‘profoundly shocking’ message in wake of Orlando massacre

June 15, 2016

Arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines

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NZ Filipino group praises arrest of Duterte over ‘fake drug war’...

March 12, 2025

South Australian MPs rally against the draconian new anti-protest law

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South Australia adopts draconian new law curbing peaceful climate protest

June 4, 2023

PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal (left) at yesterday's Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland

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NZ group slams Israeli ‘hoodwinking’ of US over nuclear strikes –...

June 22, 2025

Mt Hagen's new rules

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PNG’s Mt Hagen to launch tough new rules to ‘clean up’...

April 13, 2023

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Accused PNGDF officers to appear before court on murder charge

May 22, 2020

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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‘Historic’ Cook Islands parliament vote to decriminalise homosexuality

April 15, 2023

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Judge jails businessman 15 years for ‘cowardly attack’ on ex-Miss PNG

September 19, 2020

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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

Crime

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

Crime

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

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Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus

Analysis

West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian...

Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun

Culture

Lakapi Samoa CEO warns World Rugby sanctions could end Manu Samoa

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

Analysis

Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

NSW Premier Chris Minns

Asia Report

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

EDITOR'S PICKS

You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels

Australia

Caitlin Johnstone: All it takes is one crack in the lie...

Forty current and former soldiers of the Israel "Defence" Forces (IDF) will jog across the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Asia Report

Comedian’s Australian visa sabotaged, war crimes suspects cheered through

Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

Analysis

Long time coming: After decades of struggle, is Bougainville on the...

Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Mark Brown’s Cook Islands Party set to govern for historic fifth...

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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

You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels

Australia

Caitlin Johnstone: All it takes is one crack in the lie...

Forty current and former soldiers of the Israel "Defence" Forces (IDF) will jog across the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Asia Report

Comedian’s Australian visa sabotaged, war crimes suspects cheered through

Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

Analysis

Long time coming: After decades of struggle, is Bougainville on the...

New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli

Business

New Caledonia’s President Tukumuli outlines six-month recovery roadmap