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West Papuans reject Jakarta plan for extension of special autonomy

February 25, 2021

Fiji Attorney-General v Richard Naidu

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Graham Davis: Scandalous or ridiculous? The timing of a Fiji political lawsuit

Pacific Media Institute formed

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New media freedom advocacy institute formed in Marshall Islands

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

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‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

ABC chair Kim Williams

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Kim Williams is right to criticise how the ABC covers news, but he needs to fix it

Cabinet Minister David Parker has thrown a real spanner in the works for Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

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Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more...

August 1, 2023

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How the Palestine Authority and Israel are allies in silencing the...

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February 3, 2025

Malaysia Lockdown Crop

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Malaysia’s media crackdowns driven by a shaky, sensitive government

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July 15, 2020

Pacific journalism author and educator Dr David Robie

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Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific

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June 29, 2024

Gaza Freedom Flotilla peace activist Thiago Ávila in an interview with journalist Abby Martin before being kidnapped by Israeli forces

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Why Israel’s ‘humane’ propaganda is such a sinister facade

June 9, 2025

Children at the forefront of an Otauhi

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Palestinians return home to Gaza ashes – if we want peace,...

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January 22, 2025

Police brutality at the protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Sydney on February 9

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Herzog protest – when politicans fail, police go rogue, justice fails...

February 16, 2026

Press Freedom poster

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Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate

September 14, 2021

Dismissed Madang MP Bryan Kramer

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Kramer still working on ‘unfinished’ exposure of PNG corruption

May 29, 2023

Arab New Zealanders have been increasingly articulate in Aotearoa

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This year, Arab-American political power came to the fore over Gaza

December 4, 2024

Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh

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Israel passes extreme death penalty law targeting only Palestinians

March 31, 2026

The "Blood on your hands" protest at the US Consulate

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Activists tell of ‘apocalyptic’ ecocide on top of Israel’s Gaza genocide...

February 21, 2026

NZ's Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins

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NZ election 2023: Better ways than taxation to bring down living...

September 12, 2023

NFP president Parmod Chand (left) and Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

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NFP president slams Labour leader for ‘hallucinating’ about Fiji governance

November 18, 2024

Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark

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Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential...

June 30, 2025

Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

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Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white...

July 29, 2021

The French National Assembly in session

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New Caledonia’s provincial elections delay passes final voting hurdle

March 21, 2024

Laurie Humuni (RDO), spokesperson for the FLNKS political bureau (left) and UC's secretary-general Dominque Fochi

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‘Full sovereignty and independence’: FLNKS rejects France’s Bougival project

August 14, 2025

The Daily Blog publisher Martyn Bradbury & a nespaper

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Martyn Bradbury’s 17 editorial ‘no go’ zones for the NZ media

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January 5, 2023

Community leaders and residents discuss priorities at the first Manurewa Pan-Pacific strategy workshop

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Manurewa’s first Pan-Pacific strategy aims to amplify Pasifika voices

March 5, 2025

French security forces operating in the New Caledonian village of Saint Louis

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Death toll in Kanaky New Caledonia unrest reaches 10

July 11, 2024

A "Free Kanaky" banner at an anticolonialism solidarity rally for independence from France

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Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘People of Palestine and Kanaks are in...

June 8, 2024

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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

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

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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

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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

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Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

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

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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)

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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

Multinational police probe into Fiji officers

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Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade...

$"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades$

Analysis

Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...

Moana Pasifika head coach Tana Umaga sings and dances along to a cultural song after Saturday's Super Rugby Pacific Round 15 match

Editor's Picks

‘We always stay hopeful’, says Umaga on Moana Pasifika’s future

PNG's Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

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New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women...

EDITOR'S PICKS

New Zealand Gaza flotilla supporters welcome home two Kiwi activists from brutal Israeli detention at the weekend

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Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s...

Moana Pasifika head coach Tana Umaga sings and dances along to a cultural song after Saturday's Super Rugby Pacific Round 15 match

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‘We always stay hopeful’, says Umaga on Moana Pasifika’s future

Cuban doctors arriving back from Italy following the covid outbreak in 2020

Analysis

The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...

Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Kalani Kaneko (second from right) has been leading advocacy for island US military veterans

Civil Society

Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive

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

New Zealand Gaza flotilla supporters welcome home two Kiwi activists from brutal Israeli detention at the weekend

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Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s...

Cuban doctors arriving back from Italy following the covid outbreak in 2020

Analysis

The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...

Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Kalani Kaneko (second from right) has been leading advocacy for island US military veterans

Civil Society

Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive

Olivia Coote presents a welcome home koha to Global Sumud Flotilla activists Mousa Taher (centre) and Hāhona Ormsby (black cap) at Auckland International Airport

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Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal...