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Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama in a more jovial mood

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Fiji state appeals Banimarama and Qiliho sentences in corruption case

March 28, 2024

Operation Peace Cartenz investigators at the scene where New Zealand helicopter pilot Glen Malcolm Conning was reportedly shot dead

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Indonesian human rights groups seek independent probe of NZ pilot’s death in Papua

With the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of Nicolas Maduro, Washington has dug itself into a hole

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Out-scooped by Trump – the US attack in Nigeria did indeed point to the operation to kidnap Venezuela’s Maduro

Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark

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US attack on Venezuela ‘clearly illegal’ under UN charter, says former NZ prime minister Helen Clark

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RSF condemns journalist assaults as Hong Kong violence escalates

New Zealand hostage pilot Phillip Mehrtens (centre front in blue)

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Indonesian military deny bombing Papua district in bid to free NZ...

April 2, 2024

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media

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Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 15, 2026

Bhosip Kaiwi

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Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media...

July 6, 2020

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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Marape seeks help from Australia, Singapore to fight PNG corruption

October 6, 2023

Kanak and Palestine solidarity activists hold a joint demonstration at Montpellier, southern France

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Gordon Campbell: Israel’s political split, and the New Caledonia crisis

May 21, 2024

Between 26 to 30 Gazan journalists have been targeted in this Israeli campaign of assassination. And Anas wanted the UN rapporteur to go public, he wanted others to go public, to stop what Israel was doing

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Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif,...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 13, 2025

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Group of youth in Vanuatu sentenced for ‘barbaric’ Wan Smolbag attack

Pacific Media Centre -

June 30, 2020

Timorese war criminal Eurico Guterres

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Rights groups urge Jokowi to revoke ‘betrayal’ medal for Timorese war...

August 14, 2021

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Unitech student dies after PNG attack, campus buildings set ablaze

June 26, 2016

Multinational police probe into Fiji officers

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Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade...

May 19, 2026

Amnesty International Indonesia executive director Usman Hamid

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Amnesty urges review of Indonesian troops in Papua after torture video

March 26, 2024

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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Ardern spurns National’s plans on curbing NZ violent gang behaviour

June 13, 2022

"Gaza isn't for sale" . . .

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How would Israel respond if Trump called for death camps in...

February 14, 2025

PNG Police

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PNG massacre aftermath – PNG Defence Force deployed to Tari

July 12, 2019

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Indonesian activists seek Appeal Court ruling on Munir murder files case

February 22, 2017

Abdul Aziz Wahabzadah

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‘Congratulations Mr Terrorist, you have failed,’ girl, 15, tells gunman

August 26, 2020

Samoan fashion designer Afa Ah Loo

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Samoan fashion designer fatally shot at Salt Lake City ‘no kings’...

June 16, 2025

The cocaine was being transported on a ship sailing under Togo's flag

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4.87 tonnes of cocaine seized in French Polynesian waters – bound...

January 21, 2026

Porgera massacre

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Three PNG children die among 10 killed in Porgera massacre

March 12, 2020

Police officers in high-vis vests have today re-entered the high-rise Auckland central building

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Auckland shooting: City security beefed up as probe continues

July 21, 2023

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

Southern Cross

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Tragic death of Jenelyn Kennedy and media ethics aired on Southern...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

June 29, 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

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

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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

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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

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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

Pacific Elders Voice group's chair Anote Tong

China

Pacific at a crossroads amid growing geopolitical tension, says former leaders’...

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

RIMPAC 2026

Analysis

RIMPAC 2026: Part 1 – World’s biggest naval games a dress...

Minuteman III test launch, California

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

EDITOR'S PICKS

The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

Analysis

The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

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Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

Analysis

Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...

MOST COMMENTS

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

The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

Analysis

The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

Crime

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

Tehran doesn't answer vulgarity with vulgarity

Analysis

‘They’re scum.’ F bombs and real bombs. Trump completely outclassed by...