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“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

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Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

October 25, 2026

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot of empire

Palestinians in Gaza face a daily struggle for food

Decolonisation

Palestine Forum calls on NZ to act against ‘weaponised, engineered’ Gaza hunger

As a second-tier PIF partner, Israel will support Pacific development priorities in areas such as water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation

Decolonisation

‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s PIF role

PIF Secretary General Baron Divavesi Waqa welcomed Israel’s Ambassador to Fiji and Pacific Island Countries, Maya Yaron, and Head of MASHAV, Ambassador Eynat Shlein,

Decolonisation

Israel votes against decolonisation for Pacific at UN – then says it has become PIF partner

The French and Kanak flags flying high

Decolonisation

New Caledonia pro-independence leaders boycott EU critical minerals deal

October 23, 2026

Fiji Deputy PM Viliame Gavoka

Decolonisation

Israel’s relationship with Pacific is ‘biblical, ageless, real’, says Fiji deputy...

October 22, 2026

West Papuan researcher and human rights defender Rosa Moiwend

Decolonisation

West Papuan civil society calls for UN and Pacific access to...

October 22, 2026

Gaza family tents as far as they eye can see

Decolonisation

NZ’s foreign policy obligation to confront Israel’s Gaza genocide

October 22, 2026

Part of a fullpage Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) advertisement in The New Zealand Herald

Decolonisation

‘Please explain’, Palestine Forum tells NZ over Israeli-Pacific Islands Forum ‘partnership’

October 21, 2026

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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‘Serious questions to answer’ – Labour slams Luxon over Israel’s Pacific...

October 21, 2026

PIF Secretary-General Baron Divavesi Waqa with Israeli Ambassador Maya Yaron

Decolonisation

Israel joins Pacific Islands Forum as development partner

October 21, 2026

Sacha Roytman, chief executive of Combat Antisemitism Movement

Decolonisation

Israelis mislead Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism

October 21, 2026

US envoy to UN Tammy Bruce

Decolonisation

US envoy seeks ‘termination’ of UN decolonisation committee, slams Pacific ‘junkets’

October 20, 2026

Children at the Global March for Palestine in Queen Street

Decolonisation

Palestine Forum calls for NZ action as 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza...

October 20, 2026

Former SBS broadcaster Mary Kostakidis

Decolonisation

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

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October 19, 2026

The joint Keris Woomera 26 exercise between the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) and Australian Defence Force (ADF)

Decolonisation

Advocacy group condemns joint Australian military training with Indonesia and ‘silence...

October 19, 2026

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Decolonisation

De Gaulle: Résistance and the subjective history of anti-Nazi struggle during...

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October 18, 2026

Badly beaten photographer Heidi Levine in hospital

Decolonisation

Masked settler assault on Washington Post photographer a snapshot of Israel’s...

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October 18, 2026

Fiji's Tui Nayau, Ratu Tevita Mara

Decolonisation

Fijian chief warns coup immunity debate must address inequality and social...

October 18, 2026

"The intifada is global now"

Decolonisation

Eight ways to spot toxic hasbara trolls and being a keyboard...

October 17, 2026

A protester ahead of the Global March for Palestine up Auckland's Queen Street

Decolonisation

Free Palestine Party slams ‘shameful’ NZ stance at UN, calls for...

October 17, 2026

A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide

Decolonisation

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

October 15, 2026

The Election Scorecard on the Palestine issu

Decolonisation

Vote progressive parties – if you seek justice for Palestine

October 15, 2026

No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel

Decolonisation

Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

October 14, 2026

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay

Decolonisation

Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay praised, pilloried, ignored by Australia

October 13, 2026

Writer Nick Bollinger speaking at the Roger Fowler whānau's book launch

Decolonisation

A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival...

October 11, 2026

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Decolonisation

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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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

Decolonisation

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Decolonisation

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Decolonisation

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

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QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

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Decolonisation

West Papuan civil society calls for UN and Pacific access to...

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Decolonisation

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The joint Keris Woomera 26 exercise between the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) and Australian Defence Force (ADF)

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Advocacy group condemns joint Australian military training with Indonesia and ‘silence...

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"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

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“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

Decolonisation

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Asia Report

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini

Editor's Picks

Gaza media: ‘Why we document history – even if accountability feels...