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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

October 16, 2025

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

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Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste

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

May 21, 2025

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How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace

April 23, 2019

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

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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

Lilo Ema Siope

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Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka...

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July 22, 2020

Lisa Taouma

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

December 31, 2022

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

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

October 20, 2019

Loimata

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Loimata – The Sweetest Tears is a spectacularly exquisite documentary

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July 27, 2020

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Police claim raid on Papuan students to block ‘Bloody Biak’ film...

July 10, 2018

Former Fiji Times editor-in-chief Netani Rika

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Lice Movono: Hopes for the return of press freedom in Fiji

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February 10, 2023

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

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November 19, 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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West Papua author warns conflict is ‘re-igniting’ with new weapons, youth

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May 19, 2020

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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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‘Untouchable’ teen journalist challenges corruption at Indian rural schools

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March 9, 2016

Papuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor

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Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports

February 5, 2023

Police and protestors clash at the conclusion of the 2022 occupation at NZ's Parliament grounds

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RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an...

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March 2, 2023

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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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

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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

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

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...

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

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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Invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog (inset)

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Australia’s invitation to Herzog sparks protest plans over Gaza genocide

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Step back from your stupidity. Submit your claims to scrutiny

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Open letter: Seven warning signals to the global warmongers who are...

PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal

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PSNA seeks urgent police talks after ‘rock through window’ attack on...

EDITOR'S PICKS

A state visit to Australia "presented to us not as diplomacy, not as geopolitics, not as a strategic signal, but as 'healing'"

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What is Israel’s Herzog doing in Australia – who invited him,...

IDF assault case . . . no follow-up in New Zealand media but Israeli news website reports "behind the scene" revelations

Decolonisation

Israeli Embassy and meddling in the NZ police and courts over...

PNG police and crime . . . military issue arms are a fairly recent addition to tribal fighting.

Crime

Leaders of PNG’s Enga province plagued by violence – vow to...

"The rules-based international order is a system that shields the powerful and abandons the vulnerable"

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Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order

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Jacinda Ardern

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

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

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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

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

A state visit to Australia "presented to us not as diplomacy, not as geopolitics, not as a strategic signal, but as 'healing'"

Analysis

What is Israel’s Herzog doing in Australia – who invited him,...

IDF assault case . . . no follow-up in New Zealand media but Israeli news website reports "behind the scene" revelations

Decolonisation

Israeli Embassy and meddling in the NZ police and courts over...

PNG police and crime . . . military issue arms are a fairly recent addition to tribal fighting.

Crime

Leaders of PNG’s Enga province plagued by violence – vow to...

"The rules-based international order is a system that shields the powerful and abandons the vulnerable"

Analysis

Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order