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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

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’

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

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

Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste

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

Professor David Robie

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

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October 20, 2022

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Iran’s great global adventurers – around the lost world in 10...

October 20, 2019

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

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May 13, 2020

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

French TV crew arrested

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RSF demands Australian police drop charges against French TV crew

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July 23, 2019

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PMC projects lure doco makers, politics writer and Fiji journalist

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March 15, 2018

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

March 29, 2019

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

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March 26, 2017

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Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power

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November 3, 2020

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...

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April 9, 2023

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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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Pacific voices tell stories of climate change reality in new documentary

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December 11, 2018

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New book boosts diversity, cultural consciousness in NZ film making

April 10, 2019

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Paga Hill iconic human rights film banned from PNG festival

October 13, 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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Price of Peace filmmakers honoured with award

October 13, 2016

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Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

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February 19, 2019

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

Papuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor

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Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports

February 5, 2023

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Pacific one year after Pam – we need to talk about...

March 13, 2016

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

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October 3, 2018

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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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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.

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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)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Protesters wave flags and banners reading “Stop Bombing Iran” and “Stop Bombing the Middle East” as they gather at Victoria Tower Gardens in London

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Thousands of protesters in London demand end to US, Israeli war...

An oil tanker docked at the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand

Analysis

US-Israel’s war on Iran – mostly negative scenarios for the Pacific

A draft US military training document for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands provides for joint military training exercises

Global

US military opens environmental review for expanded Marianas training footprint

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

Analysis

’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

EDITOR'S PICKS

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson

Asia Report

French Polynesia urges Pacific to unite amid rising global tensions

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace

Analysis

West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid

Curse of Gold

Asia Report

Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

Analysis

’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

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

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson

Asia Report

French Polynesia urges Pacific to unite amid rising global tensions

Union organiser and socialist Joe Carolan speaking at an anti-war rally

Asia Report

US-Israeli war on Iran confusion clouds ‘off-ramp’ hope, says analyst

The mainstream media is doing what it always does in wartime: manufacturing consent, sanitizing atrocities and platforming war criminals

Analysis

The reporting on Iran and Gaza the US-Israel war machine can’t...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace

Analysis

West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid