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Amanda Watson: Does PNG rank highly for internet porn searches?

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January 31, 2017

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Celebrating Pasifika – the art of Samoan female tattooing

Diamond Langi

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Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity

Horror torture in Hela

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PNG woman tortured and killed in horrifying video over ‘sorcery’

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Telling the real stories behind ‘plastic’ Pacific islanders and stereotypes

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Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Camille Nakhid -

July 22, 2016

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Tongan tourism officials to ‘wipe out’ Miss Heilala over her criticisms

July 12, 2019

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Banabans of Rabi short climate change documentary chosen for Nuku’alofa

Pacific Media Watch -

October 4, 2018

Krish Naidu

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NZ Girmit group fights for ‘Pacific’ classification for Fiji-Indians

March 23, 2021

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Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere

Rahul Bhattarai -

November 25, 2018

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Disney’s Moana: First Pacific movie princess the real deal

December 14, 2016

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Students, migrants boost Nepalese community in NZ by 1000%

Rahul Bhattarai -

August 25, 2018

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Compulsory Te Reo Māori debate fails to address key problems, say...

Pacific Media Centre -

September 20, 2018

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Chewing betel nut, or ‘buai’ … the Taiwanese way

May 4, 2018

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A Wiradjuri grandmother’s sad story: ‘The Stolen Generations have never stopped’

Camille Nakhid -

July 30, 2016

Shaneel Lal

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Youth MP speaks out against ‘unfair’ Pacific criteria in NZ education...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

September 1, 2020

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AUT’s cultural diplomacy venture with Indonesia a ‘step into future’

August 31, 2017

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Iran’s great global adventurers – around the lost world in 10...

October 20, 2019

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Tuimalealiifano becomes new Head of State for Samoa

Brandon Ulfsby -

July 5, 2017

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West Papua’s Black Brothers message to PNG musicians: ‘Stay committed’

September 20, 2016

President Jokowi

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Why Indonesia’s planned new Papuan provinces will cause division and destruction

February 7, 2021

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Life on Fiji’s Rabi Island – simple, peaceful and full of...

April 25, 2018

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Gujarati migrant theatre group keeps mother tongue alive in NZ

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June 25, 2016

Scotty Morrison

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In search of our Hawaiki origins – behind the myths and...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

October 7, 2020

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King’s second son’s noble rights announced in Tonga Gazette

January 3, 2018

How the PNG Post-Courier reported Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko's Coronation trip controversy 11May23

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‘My daughter didn’t misuse public funds’ says PNG’s under fire minister

May 11, 2023

Instagram posting of Dinar Candy protest

Culture

Indonesian artist charged under ‘pornography’ law for bikini protest faces 10...

August 7, 2021

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Culture

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

Analysis

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"

Culture

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Culture

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

Culture

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)

Culture

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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The Yuan Wang 2 Chinese satellite tracking vessel

Asia Report

NZ accuses China of going against peace and stability of Pacific

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

China

‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China...

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...

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

Civil Society

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...

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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

Civil Society

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

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