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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

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Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste

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

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

West Papua independence supporters in Manokwari

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

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

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

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

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November 3, 2020

Guy Littlefair

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PMC projects creative ‘grab bag’ unveiled at midwinter showcase

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July 29, 2019

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

October 20, 2019

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

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November 19, 2018

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

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

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Climate change doco highlights Tokelau as world leader in ‘solar revolution’

August 12, 2016

Papuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor

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Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports

February 5, 2023

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

Scotty Morrison

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

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October 7, 2020

Bridesmaids actress Rose Byrne

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Actress Rose Byrne to play Jacinda Ardern in mosque attacks film

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June 11, 2021

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Doco takes personal look into how raids harmed Tūhoe lives

November 27, 2015

Evelyn Kunda at her safe house

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Paul Wolffram: Resisting sorcery violence in PNG from the ‘grasruts’

August 17, 2022

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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

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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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Paga Hill iconic human rights film banned from PNG festival

October 13, 2018

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

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May 13, 2020

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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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Israeli Channel 12 released a video showing soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian prisoner

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A pro-Palestinian protester outside the public broadcaster TVNZ in an Auckland demonstration

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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

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For Pacific’s women, the toll of runaway temperature increase will be heavy

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A pro-Palestinian protester outside the public broadcaster TVNZ in an Auckland demonstration

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Censorship crusade: Israel targets platforms and online archives to ‘rewrite Gaza’

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French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

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