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Fiji protesters supporting decolonisation of West Papua, Kanaky - and Palestine

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Wenda calls for West Papuan unity in the face of Jakarta’s renewed ‘colonial grip’

December 2, 2024

ULMWP's Benny Wenda

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West Papuan leader praises People’s Tribunal ruling as proof of ‘need for freedom’

West Papuan resistance over logging and mining projects

Forests

West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific spotlight

Killed environmental journalist Chhoeung Chheng

Forests

RSF condemns assassination of Cambodian environmental journalist

The aftermath of Indonesian forces burning temporary shelters in the Star Mountains, West Papua

Forests

Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan sovereignty

Rioting in Kukum Highway, Honiara,

Forests

Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion

November 25, 2021

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Greenpeace blasts palm oil industry deforestation in West Papua

May 1, 2018

Forests

Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 13, 2025

A logging ship, Turubu Bay, East Sepik

Forests

Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’

May 28, 2025

"All Eyes on Papua" . . . a campaign against Indonesian exploitation of Papuan rainforests

Forests

Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s...

July 24, 2024

Deforestation in Central Kalimantan

Forests

NZ dairy industry linked to illegal Indonesian plantations, says report

October 22, 2021

Land clearing in West Papua region's Grime Nawa Valley, Jayapura Regency

Forests

Massive deforestation in West Papua – Greenpeace reveals loss of 641,400...

August 18, 2023

Forests

Indonesia’s development dilemmas – a green info gap and budget pressure

November 15, 2017

Forests

Journalists fighting oil palm plantation found stabbed to death in Sumatra

Pacific Media Watch -

November 6, 2019

Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron

Forests

Macron keen on Varirata forest lookout for bilateral talks with PNG

July 28, 2023

Papuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor

Forests

Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports

February 5, 2023

Forests

Juffa blasts PNG resources ‘sell out’ but tells of Managalas hope

February 24, 2018

Logging piles on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea

Forests

Campaigners call on PNG govt to act over destructive logging

September 19, 2023

Merauke Archbishop

Forests

Papuan landowner advocate condemns diocese link to palm oil companies

January 13, 2021

Forests

Precarious politics pose threats to world’s three biggest rainforests

January 31, 2019

Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop AUT

Forests

Pacific research of ‘hard’ social issues profiled in new publication

Michael Andrew -

May 28, 2019

Isabel Premier Rhoda Sikilabu

Forests

First female premier of a Solomons province pleads for NZ covid...

April 4, 2022

Traditional landowners in Rempang pictured after clashing with Indonesian security forces

Forests

Indigenous rights group highlights rise in land grabs under Jokowi’s watch

September 21, 2023

Nicky Hager (left) with his publisher Robbie Burton

Forests

A publisher writes on ‘the terror’ of publishing Nicky Hager

Pacific Media Watch -

September 22, 2022

Forests

Journalist ‘hauled in’ for police questioning at Malaysia land protest

Pacific Media Watch -

August 2, 2019

twin catastrophic threats of climate change and a pandemic

Forests

Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than covid....

August 7, 2021

The social value of forestry was considered inefficient and wasteful

Forests

Cyclone Gabrielle triggers more destructive forestry ‘slash’ – NZ must change...

February 18, 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

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

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

Asia Report

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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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.

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)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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Newly elected Tongan noble Lord Ma'afu

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Tonga election: Two new lords as 9 noble seats decided

JAWS president Lagi Keresoma

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Samoan PM bans nation’s only newspaper from government access

Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum

Australia

Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It...

ABC's Fiji correspondent Lice Movono (from left), RNZ Pacific manager Moera Tuilaipa-Taylor and Islands Business editor Samantha Magick speaking during a women empowerment panel at the 2024 Pacific Media International conference

Democracy

Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development...

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Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum

Australia

Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It...

Former Samoan prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

Democracy

RSF calls on Samoan PM to lift ‘unacceptable’ ban on Samoa...

The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force

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A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means...

Journalism Students' Association of USP . . . "The JSA is especially concerned that these attacks are eroding youth confidence in the [journalism] profession"

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Regional Pacific student journalists condemn Samoa PM’s ban as ‘deeply troubling’

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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

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum

Australia

Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It...

Former Samoan prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

Democracy

RSF calls on Samoan PM to lift ‘unacceptable’ ban on Samoa...

President Prabowo and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sign an Australia–Indonesia Security Treaty on board HMAS Canberra

Asia Report

Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua

The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force

Analysis

A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means...