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French Overseas Minister Manuel Valls (centre) clashes

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Valls faces Kanak ‘first people’ clash with loyalists over independence talks

February 24, 2025

The late Sir Rabbie Namaliu

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PNG’s Sir Rabbie blessed at birth – ‘he’ll be a big man, clever’

NZ's new Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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Peters has track record but NZ aid policy still hard to figure out

Senator Lindsey Graham (left) and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

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Caitlin Johnstone: More shockingly honest confessions from the Empire managers

The new draft PNG communication policy

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Media not a ‘tool for government’, says critic of new PNG draft policy

Kanak independence flag

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‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year

January 1, 2022

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PNG police plan public meeting to address Lae ‘land grabbing’

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April 28, 2018

Across the Gaza Strip, the engineered humanitarian disaster

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Amnesty International accuses Israel of ‘defying’ ICJ ruling over genocide

February 27, 2024

Children in Gaza have paid tribute to Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

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Sheikh Hamad: The Arab leader who broke Israel’s siege on Gaza

July 14, 2026

West Papuan student in Aotearoa New Zealand Laurens Ikinia

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West Papuan Laurens Ikinia helps empowering fellow overseas wantoks

May 11, 2022

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Gary Juffa: Why these PNG elections are taking us towards dictatorship

July 2, 2017

Pacific Aftershocks

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

October 18, 2021

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters with Minister for Pacific Peoples Shane Reti celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Cook Islands constitution in Tāmaki Makaurau

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‘Right to choose’ key to Cook Islands-NZ relationship, says Peters

August 4, 2025

Asia Pacific Media editor Dr David Robie

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Newsmakers dissect state and future of Pacific journalism

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July 5, 2024

A student protest in central Jakarta

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Student protests in Indonesia slam 7th year of Jokowi’s administration

October 24, 2021

PNG's Trade Minister Richard Maru

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PNG’s trade minister pledges China, Indon free trade deals are ‘in...

October 18, 2023

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Pacific unity crucial in ‘crowded geopolitical landscape’, says Fiame

June 9, 2023

Scott Morrison

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Morrison arrives in Solomons in first visit by an Australian PM...

June 3, 2019

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Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media

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April 16, 2019

James Shaw and Marama Davidson

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How the Greens have changed the NZ language of economic debate

October 9, 2020

Incarcerated Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti

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Eugene Doyle: Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti

August 5, 2025

Germany defeated in the UN Security Council vote

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Lim Tean: Why standing on the wrong side of history cost...

June 8, 2026

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Oil Search provides K185m for five-year health, education plan in PNG

August 5, 2016

Hayat Al-Turki . . . I will show you the photo of my missing brother

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Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved...

December 14, 2024

New Zealand is hurtling towards a sharply divided country of extreme wealth and extreme poverty

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Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t

May 22, 2025

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (left) and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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Mark Brown on China deal: ‘No need for NZ to sit...

February 9, 2025

ULMWP president Benny Wenda

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Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false

April 8, 2024

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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

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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

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

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Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

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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

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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

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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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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...

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

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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

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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau

Forty current and former soldiers of the Israel "Defence" Forces (IDF) will jog across the Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Comedian’s Australian visa sabotaged, war crimes suspects cheered through

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters in Palau for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

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Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale

"Gaza is not for sale" . . . the spray painted slogan at President Trump’s Turnberry golf resort

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Palestine Action activists face ‘terror’ charges over Trump golf resort spray-painting

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott

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NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

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US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters in Palau for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

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Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale

West Papuan advocate Paula Makabory

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

Jacinda Ardern

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Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

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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

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott

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How Free Palestine party plans to pressure NZ govt over its...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

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US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters in Palau for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

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Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale

West Papuan advocate Paula Makabory

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West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’...