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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

Australian mentor Bob Howarth with journalists in Timor-Leste

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Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture

"By helping each other we save each other."

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Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need a massive game change

ABC's Fiji correspondent Lice Movono (from left), RNZ Pacific manager Moera Tuilaipa-Taylor and Islands Business editor Samantha Magick speaking during a women empowerment panel at the 2024 Pacific Media International conference

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Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development and democracy

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Bob Howarth: Role of journalism in developing and protecting democracy

"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

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...

November 18, 2025

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...

November 18, 2025

Street art depicting a girl holding a paper boat, with half of her dress showing buildings

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Parihaka the focus for global IPRA peace conference in Aotearoa

November 2, 2025

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt

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Samoa editor says media freedom under attack in response to PM’s...

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November 19, 2025

Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard

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

November 8, 2025

Samoan PM La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

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Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence

November 17, 2025

JAWS president Lagi Keresoma

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Samoan PM bans nation’s only newspaper from government access

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November 18, 2025

UniSaver New Zealand

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

November 5, 2025

Former Samoan prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

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

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November 20, 2025

Philippine Vice-President Leni Robredo

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After election defeat, Robredo to lead ‘biggest volunteer movement in Philippine...

May 16, 2022

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...

November 19, 2025

"If the Samoan Prime Minister is truly concerned about the vision of journalists, he need only look at those closest to him"

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Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise

Pacific Media Watch -

November 18, 2025

The Pacific's inaction is particularly striking when compared to Bougainville

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Blue Pacific’s unfinished business – West Papua and regional integrity

October 28, 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

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November 11, 2025

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

November 18, 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

Protesters at an Auckland rally against Israel's genocidal two-year war on Gaza target alleged complicity by RocketLab and BlackSky

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NZ minister warned on possible risk over Israeli use of satellites

Pacific Media Watch -

October 26, 2025

Vanuatu's resigned opposition leader Ishmael Kalsakau

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Vanuatu’s Kalsakau resigns, calls for delay on constitutional referendum

May 3, 2024

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

Palestinian supporters protest against the ongoing Gaza genocide by Israel in spite of the "ceasefire"

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Britain’s act of ‘colonial arrogance’ created living injustice for Palestinians, says...

November 2, 2025

Professor Biman Prasad (left) and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in December 2022

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‘Political chaos’ – Fiji PM Rabuka confirms Biman Prasad’s resignation

October 29, 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

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

BEARING WITNESS

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

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

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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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

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

Editor's Picks

Regional Pacific student journalists condemn Samoa PM’s ban as ‘deeply troubling’

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...

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

Democracy

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

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

Asia Report

Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua

EDITOR'S PICKS

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...

Former Samoan prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

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

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

Democracy

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"

Editor's Picks

Regional Pacific student journalists condemn Samoa PM’s ban as ‘deeply troubling’

MOST COMMENTS

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

Surangel S. Whipps Jr addressing the Climate Summit 2025

Australia

Pacific climate leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Australia loses bid to host...

Pro-independence Progressist Union in Melanesia (UPM) leader Victor Tutugoro (centre with hat) and the party’s political bureau at a media conference this week in Nouméa

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New Caledonia’s pro-independence split widens – another party quits FLNKS

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...

Former Samoan prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

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