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Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua

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Pesta Babi – ‘Pig Feast’ . . . a vivid new film exposing Papua’s political ecology

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March 1, 2026

Kiwirok villagers show some of the areas that have been bombed in the attack on their village

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Wenda accuses Indonesian troops of bombarding village in Star mountains

New documentary presents detailed accounts of Israeli soldiers opening fire unprovoked on civilians running toward food handouts

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Israeli soldiers killed civilians, aid seekers in Gaza free-for-all ‘at wish of army officers’

A "save the world" banner at last Saturday's pro-Palestinian march in Auckland's Viaduct precinct

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Gaza – an open question for NZ’s foreign minister Winston Peters

Professor David Robie

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David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste

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The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1:...

May 21, 2025

Paula Whetu Jones (right) on finally completing her feature length documentary about the Auckland cardiac surgeon Dr Allan Kerr.

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The Kiwi heart surgeon, his wife and the film maker in...

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May 9, 2025

Rainbow Warrior crew help Rongelap islanders

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The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series

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November 13, 2024

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5 mind-boggling things about Pilger’s doco The Coming War on China

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March 26, 2017

Scotty Morrison

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In search of our Hawaiki origins – behind the myths and...

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October 7, 2020

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Pacific storytelling with a focus on the ignored and ‘untold’ issues

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October 3, 2018

West Papua independence supporters in Manokwari

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A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest...

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April 17, 2024

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USP students, France24 team up in smart-phone Fiji climate story

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July 14, 2017

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Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts

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June 12, 2020

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The wanted man, the CIA, the Russians and a Tongan king’s...

March 29, 2019

Lisa Taouma

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‘This is for you’ – 24 Pasifika New Year’s honours recipients...

December 31, 2022

Auckland University's Dr Melani Anae 190621

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Tagata Pasifika Special: Celebrating 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers

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June 19, 2021

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Pacific voices tell stories of climate change reality in new documentary

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December 11, 2018

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Inside Indonesia’s Secret War for West Papua – Foreign Correspondent

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May 13, 2020

Fire and Fury screenshot

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A NZ media conundrum over how to cover the ‘dangerous’ conspiracists

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August 21, 2022

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A Thousand Cuts wins best global feature at NZ’s Doc Edge...

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June 22, 2020

Bikini Atoll descendant Sosylina Jibas-Maddison

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Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas

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December 29, 2022

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Former PNG politician seeks injunction against Australian doco The Opposition

March 30, 2016

Ema Siope

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Loimata, The Sweetest Tears carries off grand prize at 2021 FIFO

February 15, 2021

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Doco takes personal look into how raids harmed Tūhoe lives

November 27, 2015

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Telling the real stories behind ‘plastic’ Pacific islanders and stereotypes

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November 19, 2018

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Feature Documentary: Morality of Argument – Sustaining a state of being...

November 27, 2015

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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

Coronavirus

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

BEARING WITNESS

"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

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

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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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Israel and US stage joint attacks on Tehran

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‘We warned you,’ says Iran’s national security chief after Israel-US attacks

Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades

Crime

Inmates in critical condition after alleged attack by PNG corrections officers

"The terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than 150 children this week"

Asia Report

Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald...

Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters

Democracy

Fiji critic’s whistleblower case escalates anti-corruption crisis

EDITOR'S PICKS

If the US can install another puppet in Tehran as obedient as the Shah after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s refineries will once again be at the mercy of US oil companies

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Why the US has no credible reason or credible...

The first satellite image of the bombing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran on the opening day of the surprise and illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran

Analysis

Neither preemptive nor legal, US-Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up...

"The terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than 150 children this week"

Asia Report

Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald...

A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions

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After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos...

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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

If the US can install another puppet in Tehran as obedient as the Shah after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s refineries will once again be at the mercy of US oil companies

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Why the US has no credible reason or credible...

Iran's Ambassador Reza Nazar Ahari

Asia Report

‘Explicit aggression’ against Iran needs clear condemnation, envoy tells NZ

The first satellite image of the bombing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran on the opening day of the surprise and illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran

Analysis

Neither preemptive nor legal, US-Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up...

"The terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than 150 children this week"

Asia Report

Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald...