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Call for UN sanctions on Israel to implement ICJ ruling on illegality of Palestine occupation

September 17, 2024

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Ban the bomb – how NZ’s ordinary ‘Davids’ checked the nuclear Goliath

PNG Police

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PNG massacre aftermath – PNG Defence Force deployed to Tari

A "raising the Morning Star" flag protest outside the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra in 2021

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West Papuan leader makes ‘raise our banned flag’ plea over new threat

A gendarme on guard in Nouméa

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Home detention for New Caledonia’s unrest ringleaders, Tiktok banned

How the PNG Post-Courier reported the social media threat

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Masiu vows 10-day shutdown of PNG’s social media after capital riots

Pacific Media Watch -

January 16, 2024

The Rainbow Warrior III on the eve of the memorial service for Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira

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‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of...

July 10, 2025

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Nationalist militia attack Papuan pro-independence rally in Surabaya

December 2, 2018

The Indonesian fishing boats reportedly seized by the PNG Defence Force

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Post-Courier: Border patrol by soldiers or navy must be taken seriously

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August 29, 2022

Nobel Peace laureate Maria Ressa

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Media watchdogs slam 16 new legal complaints against Ressa, Rappler

April 4, 2022

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‘Stop killing Melanesians’ Vanuatu plea to Canberra over West Papua

January 21, 2017

Known far-right figures were among the first setting up at the Beehive Parliament protest

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Mad, bad or mostly moderate? Media’s mixed message on protest

Pacific Media Watch -

February 20, 2022

MRP Chair Timotius Murib

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Indonesian official admits new Papua provinces are to ‘counter OPM, exploit...

July 7, 2022

Free West Papua flags

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West Papuan leaders declare first steps for world’s first ‘green state’

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December 2, 2020

Māori and Pacific STEM postgraduates

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Māori and Pacific students ‘battle racism and tokenism’ at university

August 9, 2022

Protesters at the Sydney "Free Violet Coco" rally

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‘It’s time to be the crowd’, Knitting Nannas tell protest against...

December 7, 2022

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Jokowi plays it tough, accusing Prabowo of ‘outbursts of lies’

February 5, 2019

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Seven Pacific states blast Indonesia for human rights violations in West...

March 2, 2017

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Police arrest 45 at Jayapura rally plea for PIF to raise...

September 6, 2018

Taeri MP and former journalist Ingrid Leary

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Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education given airing

Pacific Media Watch -

June 4, 2025

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...

December 2, 2024

Muzhgan Samarqandi and her husband Daniel Kleinsman

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Muzhgan Samarqandi: MIQ debate trivialises the plight of women and girls...

February 1, 2022

Her Royal Highness Princess Latufuipeka

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No women elected in Tonga: time to change the story

November 20, 2021

Hiroshima atomic cloud

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John Pilger: Another Hiroshima is coming — unless we stop it...

August 5, 2020

Pro-Palestinian protesters at a New Zealand solidarity rally in Auckland

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Israel’s endgame for tormented Gaza is political and physical erasure

April 25, 2025

Author David Robie with his latest book, Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior.

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Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests...

July 11, 2025

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Ban the bomb: 70 years on, the nuclear threat looms as...

Pacific Media Centre -

August 6, 2015

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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

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

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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

POPULAR POSTS

Protesters hold aloft an image of a baby dying from starvation outside the Washington headquarters of Fox News

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As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival

Progressive journalist and presenter Mehdi Hasan

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Debunked – Israel’s top 10 lies on Gaza, as exposed by...

Some of the estimated 100,000 to 300,000 people - depending on whose estimate - who protested yesterday on the Sydney Harbour Bridge over Israel's genocidal war on Gaza

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Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend...

Caption reads "ruins of Gaza at the time of the Great Attack". 1917.

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New Zealand’s shameful role in the 1917 destruction of Gaza

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Progressive journalist and presenter Mehdi Hasan

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Debunked – Israel’s top 10 lies on Gaza, as exposed by...

An Uncle Sam puppet with blood on his hands held aloft by pro-Palestinian protesters in Auckland, New Zealand

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Israel backing Gaza ‘gangs’ to create unlivable chaos, says academic

New Zealand protesters at the weekly demonstration against the Israeli genocide in Gaza in Auckland

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Bloodshed at GHF-run Gaza aid sites ‘a great sin’, says former...

Pro-independence former New Caledonia Congress president Roch Wamytan

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Roch Wamytan: Paris political agreement for New Caledonia ‘not enough’ for...

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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

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters with Minister for Pacific Peoples Shane Reti celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Cook Islands constitution in Tāmaki Makaurau

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‘Right to choose’ key to Cook Islands-NZ relationship, says Peters

Some of the estimated 100,000 to 300,000 people - depending on whose estimate - who protested yesterday on the Sydney Harbour Bridge over Israel's genocidal war on Gaza

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Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend...

The Palestine Laboratory author Antony Loewenstein

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Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on...

The lone building left standing from the US nuclear bomb attack on 3 August 1945 that later became the Hiroshima Peace Memorial

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Hiroshima 80 years on – why AUKUS is imperial madness and...