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Palestinian Authority security officials deliver the Al Jazeera banning order

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‘Crime against journalism’: Gaza journalists slam PA’s Al Jazeera ban

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January 3, 2025

Incarcerated Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti

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Eugene Doyle: Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti

OPM leader Jeffrey Bomanak

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OPM call for PNG’s James Marape as negotiator for NZ pilot’s safe passage

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MSG backing Kanak independence ‘on the quiet’, says campaigner

Guam Governor Leon Guerrero welcomes Taiwan's President Lai to Guam

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Northern Marianas leaders meet Taiwan President Lai Ching-te in Guam

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

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Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

August 23, 2023

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Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic

April 4, 2020

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Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance

January 9, 2016

Honouring Hisoshima Day and the International Day for the World's Indigenous Peoples this month

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Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum

August 16, 2024

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From nuclear refugees to climate justice – the Rainbow Warrior legacy

July 10, 2020

Novo Horizonte hotel

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President Lú-Olo declares Timor-Leste state of emergency over coronavirus

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March 29, 2020

Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei

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What I would do if I was Mojtaba Khamenei – a...

April 13, 2026

Veronica Koman

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Papua Solidarity returns rights lawyer Veronica Koman’s scholarship grant

September 17, 2020

New Plymouth Mayor Neil Holdom

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Money link to illegal Israeli settlements ignites divestment battle in NZ...

December 13, 2024

Fagaloa Bay Samoa

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Michael Field: On Sāmoa’s change of government

July 27, 2021

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Gallery: Peaceful protest scenes end in police crackdown at UPNG

June 8, 2016

Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal (from left), Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod, and vice-chancellor Mark Scott at Sydney University

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Sydney Uni appoints antisemitism ‘lecturer’, forgets to tell anybody

April 22, 2026

The Gaza truce takes effect after 7 weeks of war

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War on Gaza: Israeli failures, US charades and a negotiated truce

November 24, 2023

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NZ university denies bowing to Chinese pressure over Tiananmen

July 31, 2019

Next chapter in Afghanistan

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Indonesia holds fire on Afghanistan relations – awaits Taliban government

September 2, 2021

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AUT vice-chancellor gives ‘profoundly shocking’ message in wake of Orlando massacre

June 15, 2016

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Fiji judge orders retrial in ‘hate graffiti’ spray painting sedition case

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August 25, 2018

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Britain, home of industrial revolution, plans ‘net-zero’ climate change

May 4, 2019

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

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Binoy Kampmark: Bitter harvests – the killing of Yahya Sinwar and...

October 28, 2024

Tuvalu PM Kausea Natano

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Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact

January 22, 2021

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NZ lockdown – day 12: Nation needs to ‘stay the course’,...

April 6, 2020

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Richard McLeod: Make our voices known against the euthanasia bill

January 31, 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"

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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

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

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Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

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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

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

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Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

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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

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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

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APJS NEWSFILE

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)

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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Singer, documentary maker, storyteller and TV presenter Moana Maniapoto

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Moana Maniapoto: Why trashing the BSA is a sign of journalism...

Two foreign activists -- Brazilian Thiago Ávila and Spanish Palestinian Saif Abukeshek -- from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were kidnapped and taken to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May 3 and again two days later

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Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

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After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

Fiji Times journalist Alifereti Josefa-Sakiasi speaking at the combined Fiji universities' World Press Freedom Day talanoa

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Media programmes at USP, FNU join forces for World Press Freedom...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

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‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

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New Caledonia provincial elections set for June but voter roll changes...

Singer, documentary maker, storyteller and TV presenter Moana Maniapoto

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Moana Maniapoto: Why trashing the BSA is a sign of journalism...

"Everyone was taken by surprise [with the Israeli military attack]"

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‘We’re under attack!’ – the night the Israelis struck the Global...

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

Jacinda Ardern

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

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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

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

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‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

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New Caledonia provincial elections set for June but voter roll changes...

"Everyone was taken by surprise [with the Israeli military attack]"

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‘We’re under attack!’ – the night the Israelis struck the Global...

Defiant Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (left) and humbled US President Donald Trump

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Iran war almost over . . . and the end...