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‘Cutting off communications’ – did Trump really just turn his back on Israel?

May 12, 2025

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair John Minto and University of Canterbury lecturer Dr Josephine Varghese speak at the Christchurch City Council meeting today

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NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements

West Papuan Morning Star flag at burial

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OPM leader calls on Biden to take proactive role in ending West Papuan ‘holocaust’

Israeli tennis player and ex-soldier Lina Glushko

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Palestine protest group condemns NZ’s ‘normalisation of apartheid’ – Israeli tennis player’s match disrupted

The late Chief Lukas Enembe's family mourns him after his coffin is delivered

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Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’

An Eastern Star cartoon paying tribute to Vanuatu's support for West Papua

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Vanuatu – West Papua – MSG: An epic saga of...

July 1, 2023

An Indonesian Air Force helicopter prepares to fly to Timika

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OPM blames Indonesia over tragic death of NZ helicopter pilot

August 6, 2024

Vanuatu's public broadcaster VBTC reporting on the Melanesian Spearhead Group's denial of full membership for West Papua

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OPM accuses Melanesian group of taking Jakarta’s ‘blood money’ at expense...

August 27, 2023

And now there are 10 in BRICS, the alternative to the G7 bloc

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Indonesia joins BRICS: What now for West Papuan goal of independence?

January 14, 2025

Freed West Papuan leader Victor Yeimo

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Release of Victor Yeimo from Indonesian prison rekindles West Papuan fight...

September 24, 2023

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OPM calls for decolonisation of West Papua, condemns UN ‘collusion’

September 15, 2023

Latest Indonesian torture atrocity in West Papua

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Wenda condemns ‘sadistic brutality’ of Indonesian torture of Papuan – calls...

March 23, 2024

Victoria University students protesting against the administration and demanding that the foundation divest its funds linked to Israel

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Student pressure forces Victoria University Foundation to divest from Israeli bonds

September 10, 2024

PSNA co-chairs John Minto and Maher Nazzal said the referral “carefully outlines a case that six NZ individuals should be investigated”

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Palestine solidarity group lawyers refer NZ prime minister Luxon, 3 ministers...

July 3, 2025

"Tiger cages" at Vietnam's War Remnants Museum

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Up close and friendly with Vietnam’s war resistance Củ Chi tunnels

September 16, 2024

"No to neocolonialism" say Christian Tein of the protest group CCAT and thousands of Kanak protesters

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Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots

May 17, 2024

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group

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MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for...

August 26, 2023

Filipino media "influencers" complicit in Israeli propaganda programme

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How two Filipino ‘journalists’ took part in Israeli whitewashing of genocide

August 31, 2025

"Unfree flags" . . . Kanaky New Caledonia (from left), West Papua and Aboriginal.

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Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’...

May 24, 2023

The Papuan Infantry Battalion in the Second World War

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OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua

April 24, 2024

West Papua's Benny Wenda

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Veteran West Papua independence leader elected ULMWP president

November 25, 2023

Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Jotham Napat

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ULMWP welcomes Vanuatu leader’s ‘Melanesian way’ vow in Jakarta

June 22, 2023

Military analyst Elijah Magnier

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Israelis ‘now realise’ what Palestinians and Lebanese have been suffering, says...

June 16, 2025

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NZ pro-Palestine protesters slam ‘tea break’ and call for full Gaza...

November 25, 2023

Some of the European MPs supporting West Papua

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Wenda calls on Euro politicians to sign Brussels Declaration on West...

January 25, 2024

Palestine's justice advocate Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh

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How Palestine fights ecocide with biodiversity and sustainability resistance

May 20, 2024

"What Trump and Musk and Vance and the supine Republicans are doing are installing an imperial, militaristic domestic dictatorship"

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Trump has ‘declared war against the American people’, says Ralph Nader

March 7, 2025

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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

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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Newly elected Tongan noble Lord Ma'afu

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Tonga election: Two new lords as 9 noble seats decided

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...

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

The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report

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Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect...

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Philippines police unlawfully targeted protesters with unnecessary and excessive force

Asia Report

Philippines testimony reveals torture, abuses by police, says Amnesty

Head of Greenpeace Pacific Shiva Gounden

Australia

COP30 ends with ‘extremely weak’ outcomes, says Pacific campaigner

Australian journalist, editor and manager Bob Howarth in Timorese ceremonial dress in Dili

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‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob...

A tribute in Māngere East's Village Green

Civil Society

Showing their aroha for the activist ‘power couple’ of Māngere East

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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

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The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report

Analysis

Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect...

The organisers of the Chilean civil society initiative against genocidal Israel

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Chile plans to launch global campaign seeking to expel ‘pariah’ Israel...

Head of Greenpeace Pacific Shiva Gounden

Australia

COP30 ends with ‘extremely weak’ outcomes, says Pacific campaigner

Australian journalist, editor and manager Bob Howarth in Timorese ceremonial dress in Dili

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‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob...