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People waiting to vote in Bougainville’s capital Buka during the referendum on independence in 2019

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Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence

March 22, 2025

Some of the 1000 protesters who took part in a demonstration in the heart of New Zeland's largest city Auckland today

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Israel’s former chief justice Aharon Barak fears state risks ‘civil war’

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (right)

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PNG and Bougainville to hold more talks on independence issue

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

Democracy

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement

Protesters in Auckland call for a permanent end to the war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and for justice

Democracy

New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable

A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

Democracy

Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

Pacific Media Watch -

March 18, 2025

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Fijian academic says PM’s plans to change constitution ‘might take a...

March 17, 2025

Jax Taylor of Waiheke Island, one of the New Zealand protesters reciting poetry

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Former US envoy slams air attacks on Houthis – NZ protesters...

March 16, 2025

The flags of Guam and the US

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Guam at decolonisation ‘crossroads’ with resolution on US statehood

March 16, 2025

Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte awaiting trial

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Former Filipino president Duterte’s arrest by the ICC – 20 journalists...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 16, 2025

Besma at the "Free Palestine" rally in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau

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NZ rally honours ‘voice of Palestine’ poet and marks Christchurch massacre

March 15, 2025

The Pacific and the world

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Call for fresh Blue Pacific rules-based order: ‘Our home, our rules’

March 14, 2025

Arrested Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte

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Rodrigo Duterte, how the powerful turned powerless – by a target

March 13, 2025

Labour Party's associate foreign affairs spokesperson Phil Twyford (right) receives the open letter

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100 Christian leaders’ open letter calls for NZ humanitarian visas for...

March 13, 2025

Arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines

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NZ Filipino group praises arrest of Duterte over ‘fake drug war’...

March 12, 2025

Israel has regularly breached the first phase of the three-phased Gaza ceasefire agreement

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PSNA open letter calls for NZ to condemn Israel’s ‘weaponisation’ of...

March 12, 2025

Trump supporters marching on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021

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How New Zealand is venturing down the road of political upheaval

March 12, 2025

Publisher, broadcaster and tourism enthusiast Marc Neil-Jones

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Vanuatu mourns loss of iconic Pacific media pioneer Marc Neil-Jones

Pacific Media Watch -

March 11, 2025

A Filipino "Women unite to eliminate violence and war" placard

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Hamas accuses Israel of ‘cheap blackmail’ as Gaza electricity cut-off widely...

March 10, 2025

Thousands took part in last week's International Women's Day rally

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Thousands in Melbourne rally for International Women’s Day, Gaza

March 10, 2025

Marshall Islands Journal editor Giff Johnson

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Concern US presence could run against Marshall Islands nuclear-free treaty

March 10, 2025

The Listening Post on Gaza truth-telling

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Israel resumes its war crimes in Gaza – AJ’s Listening...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 10, 2025

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos

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Gavin Ellis: Amazon founder Bezos dims lights on democracy

Pacific Media Watch -

March 9, 2025

Eugene Velasco of the progressive Filipino feminist NGO Gabriela

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International Women’s Day activists protest in solidarity with Palestinians

March 8, 2025

"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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Gallery: Vanuatu ‘welcomes all’ to rebuilt traditional chiefs’ nakamal meeting house

March 7, 2025

NZ's major print media and radio company NZME

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Union wary of Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon’s NZ media influence

Pacific Media Watch -

March 6, 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

Democracy

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

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

Democracy

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?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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)

Democracy

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Protesters in Auckland call for a permanent end to the war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and for justice

Democracy

New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable

Jax Taylor of Waiheke Island, one of the New Zealand protesters reciting poetry

Democracy

Former US envoy slams air attacks on Houthis – NZ protesters...

This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Climate

Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Asia Report

Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’...

EDITOR'S PICKS

People waiting to vote in Bougainville’s capital Buka during the referendum on independence in 2019

Democracy

Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence

Some of the 1000 protesters who took part in a demonstration in the heart of New Zeland's largest city Auckland today

Democracy

Israel’s former chief justice Aharon Barak fears state risks ‘civil war’

This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Climate

Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

Democracy

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Asia Report

Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’...

People waiting to vote in Bougainville’s capital Buka during the referendum on independence in 2019

Democracy

Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence

Some of the 1000 protesters who took part in a demonstration in the heart of New Zeland's largest city Auckland today

Democracy

Israel’s former chief justice Aharon Barak fears state risks ‘civil war’

RFMF Territorial Brigade soldiers taking part in the three-day Operation Genesis exercises in Fiji

Disasters

Joint Fiji forces tackle civil strife, flash flood crisis and rebels...