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Māori Pati president John Tamihere

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‘We can learn from Chinese diplomacy’, says Māori Pati critic of NZ stance

June 9, 2022

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Rallies against Indonesian labour law turn violent as police, protesters clash

PNG Minister for Information and Communications Technology Timothy Masiu

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PNG Communications Minister calls for media to ‘protect, preserve Pacific identity’

Pacific news reporting is becoming increasingly complex and contentious

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New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure

Papuan environmental and human rights lawyer Yan Christian Warinussy

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From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe

Professor Mathias Chauchat

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New Caledonia faced with uncertainty over Noumea Accord legacy

December 13, 2021

The Kanaky flag of independence (and West Papaua Morning Star flag inset)

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Jimmy Naouna: Macron’s handling of Kanaky New Caledonia isn’t working –...

June 4, 2024

Touho airport control tower on fire

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Kanaky New Caledonia crisis: Kanak lawyer warns ‘separatism’ will worsen inequalities

July 16, 2024

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with a traditional Kanak dancer

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Macron urges Kanaky New Caledonia ‘compatriots’ to chart united path

July 26, 2023

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Philippines at risk of ‘full-blown’ HIV epidemic

February 10, 2016

The two latest shootings in Kanaky New Caledonia bring the number of deaths in the Pacific territory to 13

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French police shoot dead two Kanaks in New Caledonian ‘assassinations’

September 20, 2024

Political prisoner Marwan Barghouti

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Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and...

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October 21, 2025

More than 800 Fiji villages are now on a government climate risk list

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Climate crisis: The Fiji villages in paradise being swallowed by the...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 9, 2023

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

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Clock ticking for Vanuatu’s state broadcaster – 6 months to reform

Pacific Media Watch -

August 28, 2017

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PM Luxon talks doubling RSE in PNG – plane breakdown almost...

June 17, 2024

NCD Governor Powes Parkop

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PNG’s Parkop tells exiled Papuans ‘don’t lose hope – keep up...

December 8, 2024

Pacific Aftershocks

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Aftershocks of covid-19 threaten to undo gains across Pacific, says report

October 18, 2021

Tuvalu's Transport, Energy, and Communications Minister Simon Kofe

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‘We have to keep pressuring Australia to do the right thing’,...

October 27, 2024

Big stick diplomacy – the willingness to use the military – was increasingly unleashed to assert US hegemony and business interests

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Eugene Doyle: Look where appeasing a bully has led the West...

January 20, 2026

President Emmanuel Macron

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Pro-France MPs confront Macron over New Caledonia at future talks

January 19, 2026

Fiji protesters supporting decolonisation of West Papua, Kanaky - and Palestine

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Wenda calls for West Papuan unity in the face of Jakarta’s...

December 2, 2024

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Tokelau suspends two officials following helicopter row review

Mackenzie Smith -

May 11, 2017

France's High Commission in Nouméa

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French PM’s confidence vote hits New Caledonia’s political negotiations

August 26, 2025

Dimona's nuclear opacity

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Deafening silence about the Israeli Dimona nuclear double standard

March 30, 2026

Former UNDP adninistrator Helen Clark

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Clark condemns US withdrawal as ‘assault on international system of cooperation’

January 11, 2026

Pacific shipping corridors

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China’s Shandong Province expands its climate footprint to the Pacific

September 4, 2023

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

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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

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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

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

Analysis

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

Analysis

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"

Analysis

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

Bearing Witness

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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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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New Zealand pro-Palestine protesters stage a rally in Te Komititanga Square

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Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jnr

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The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral

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Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

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Taiwan Day event in Suva

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