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"The message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out."

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Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

May 20, 2026

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Phillip Miriori: Why Bougainvilleans are having their say – ‘No to BCL’

Vanuatu's public broadcaster VBTC reporting on the Melanesian Spearhead Group's denial of full membership for West Papua

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OPM accuses Melanesian group of taking Jakarta’s ‘blood money’ at expense of West Papuan justice

BenarNews former Pacific editor Stefan Armbruster

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Pacific editor welcomes US court ruling in favour of Radio Free Asia

ISA's Secretary-General Leticia Carvalho

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Pacific nations shaping future of seabed mining rules, says ISA chief

French Ambassador to the Pacific Véronique Roger-Lacan

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‘We cannot have peace without independence,’ says Kanak govt official

June 20, 2024

French humanitarian assistance and disaster relief may offer lessons to inform coordination

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How Australia can partner more effectively with France in the Pacific

July 15, 2023

Displaced Oksop villagers in West Papua

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‘Ghost of Suharto’ marks Prabowo’s new phase in West Papua occupation

January 6, 2025

US Vice-President Kamala Harris

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Fiji police evict two Chinese defence attaches amid Pacific Forum tensions

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July 13, 2022

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Tiny Timbulsloko fights back in face of Indonesia’s ‘ecological disaster’

November 18, 2017

China's regional Pacific ambitions

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Kiribati ‘forced’ to allow China visit on Pacific mission, says journalist

May 27, 2022

Rival flags of influence in the Pacific - Israel and Palestine

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Activist slams Pacific’s ‘dreadful response’ to Palestine amid growing links with...

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August 22, 2025

Disputed Hunter Island

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Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

July 15, 2026

The Frontier War documentary

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Wenda calls for international inquiry into film claim that Indonesia is...

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January 31, 2025

Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai

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Vanuatu leader in NZ talks marijuana, seasonal workers and cyclones

August 11, 2024

Sitiveni Rabuka (left) with Voreqe Bainimarama in 2018.

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Fiji’s dilemma – how its military has become so deeply mired...

September 5, 2022

"Culture shocking, overwhelming" . . . speaking at COP26 about Tuvalu

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Tuvalu residents fight for their home in face of worsening tides...

February 21, 2024

Former PNG national Parliament regional representative for Bougainville Joe Lera . . . "We will try to make big changes in addressing sustainable development"

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Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development

July 23, 2025

Amnesty International Aotearoa's people power manager Margaret Taylor

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Amnesty International doubles down on Israeli Gaza ‘genocide, atrocities’ report at...

December 7, 2024

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Fifth Estate: ‘Bomber’ talks climate change and the impact on Pacific

March 30, 2016

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PM’s media adviser rejects reports on Alotau camp slush funds

KINJAP Peter S. -

July 25, 2016

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Miriori fires broadside at ‘rogue’ Bougainville mining rights bid

February 9, 2019

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Housing trust chief slams ‘short cuts’ approach to NZ homes crisis

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October 26, 2018

The Gambier Islands

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French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

June 11, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (centre) during his trip to China

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China confirms ‘in-depth exchange’ with Cook Islands as New Zealand faces...

February 14, 2025

"Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995"

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NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition

July 12, 2025

Previous tariff announcements by the Trump administration dropped sand into the cogs of international trade

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New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs –...

April 3, 2025

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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

CORONAVIRUS

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

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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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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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Counsel Assisting before Commissioner Virginia Bell

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Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’

An Iranian naval speedboat patrolling the Strait of Hormuz

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The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding

In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership

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NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

Iranian Kiwi Seyed Derhany

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‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned...

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Australia's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal

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The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for

Producer Victor Mambor of the documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in Our Time accepts the award on behalf of the production team

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Pesta Babi documentary wins both Udin and Tasrif awards for ‘injustice’...

An Iranian naval speedboat patrolling the Strait of Hormuz

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The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other...

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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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Australia's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal

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The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for

Producer Victor Mambor of the documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in Our Time accepts the award on behalf of the production team

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Pesta Babi documentary wins both Udin and Tasrif awards for ‘injustice’...

The Free Palestine Party

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Free Palestine Party becomes latest political party in Aotearoa

An Iranian naval speedboat patrolling the Strait of Hormuz

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The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding