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President Prabowo and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sign an Australia–Indonesia Security Treaty on board HMAS Canberra

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Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua

November 20, 2025

The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force

Decolonisation

A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means in practice

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Minister Moutchou ends New Caledonia visit – political announcements, no new financial pledge

New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil

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Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face the facts

The UN Security Council adopted the US-sponsored Gaza resolution 13 votes to nil

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IDF failed on battlefield to disarm Hamas, but UN vote gives power to US-Israel, says analyst

"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"

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Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

November 18, 2025

The pōwhiri for the start of the four-day WIPCE 2025

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World’s largest indigenous education conference kicks off in Auckland

November 17, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed on a placard at a New Zealand pro-Palestine rally

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Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet...

November 16, 2025

Pro-Palestinian activist Lamees Elthiny speaking to protesters in Auckland

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Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster...

November 15, 2025

Palestinian rally MC Lamees Elthiny speaks to a protest rally in Auckland today themed on the "BDS - Boycott Divestments Sanctions" campaign against New Zealand companies alleged to be complicit with Israel's genocide in Gaza

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New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership

November 15, 2025

"By helping each other we save each other."

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Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...

November 14, 2025

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

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

November 13, 2025

Australian journalist Roger Domm with Falintil resistance fighters in Timor-Leste in 1990

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Timor-Leste’s Xanana Gusmão pays tribute to journalist Robert Domm over independence...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 13, 2025

USTKE and other inter-union members met French Overseas Minister Naïma Moutchou on her visit to Camp Est prison in Nouméa

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French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia

November 13, 2025

New documentary presents detailed accounts of Israeli soldiers opening fire unprovoked on civilians running toward food handouts

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Israeli soldiers killed civilians, aid seekers in Gaza free-for-all ‘at wish...

November 12, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support

November 12, 2025

Relatives mourn over the body of Palestinian journalist Ahmad Abu Mutayr

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Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report

Pacific Media Watch -

November 11, 2025

Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi

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NZ’s Te Pāti Māori purge fails to end the party war

November 10, 2025

Dame Jacinda Ardern, Special Envoy for Oceania and former prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand (right) and Coral Pasisi, Director of Climate Change and Sustainability at the Pacific Community (SPC)

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Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in...

November 10, 2025

Pacific People's Mission to Kanaky

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‘Profound distrust’ in France, says Pacific people’s mission report calling for...

November 9, 2025

A BDS - boycott, divestment and sanctions - placard

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NZ Palestine protesters condemn govt over failure to impose sanctions against...

November 8, 2025

Palestinians clear rubble to search for survivors in a Gaza house

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Gaza ‘ceasefire’ simply means that Israel can do whatever it wants....

November 8, 2025

Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard

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NZ government has ‘Trumpian accent’, says global human rights advocate

November 8, 2025

A pro-Palestinian protester outside the public broadcaster TVNZ in an Auckland demonstration

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Censorship crusade: Israel targets platforms and online archives to ‘rewrite Gaza’

Pacific Media Watch -

November 7, 2025

French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

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New dates for French minister Moutchou’s visit to New Caledonia

November 6, 2025

This enmity towards journalism, has been a hallmark of the Trump presidency

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Making a stand against the global assault on press freedom

Pacific Media Watch -

November 5, 2025

UniSaver New Zealand

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‘Divest from genocide’ call by NZ university workers to UniSaver

November 5, 2025

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...

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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

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

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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

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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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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The UN Security Council adopted the US-sponsored Gaza resolution 13 votes to nil

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IDF failed on battlefield to disarm Hamas, but UN vote gives...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed on a placard at a New Zealand pro-Palestine rally

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Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet...

Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum

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Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It...

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Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum

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Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It...

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The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force

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A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means...

Journalism Students' Association of USP . . . "The JSA is especially concerned that these attacks are eroding youth confidence in the [journalism] profession"

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

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum

Australia

Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It...

Former Samoan prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

Democracy

RSF calls on Samoan PM to lift ‘unacceptable’ ban on Samoa...

President Prabowo and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sign an Australia–Indonesia Security Treaty on board HMAS Canberra

Decolonisation

Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua

The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force

Decolonisation

A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means...