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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Fiji advocacy group slams Indonesian role in MSG as a ‘disgrace’

June 25, 2025

Arab members of the Global March To Gaza were the targets of the most dramatic and violent excesses committed by the Egyptian authorities

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Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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‘Don’t surrender’ to Indonesian pressure over West Papua, Bomanak warns MSG

Protesters shout slogans and hold placards during a national demonstration against the Israeli wars on Gaza, occupied Palestine and Iran

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Starving Gaza civilians toll climbs at Israeli humanitarian ‘death traps’

Israel accepts the ceasefire

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Ramzy Baroud: The fallout – winners and losers from the Israeli war on Iran

Deputy PM Grant Robertson on the right to protest

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Right to protest lost for those who ‘threaten, harass and disrupt’,...

February 12, 2022

Former Kiribati President Anote Tong

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Former Kiribati president warns judicial crisis could undermine democracy

August 18, 2022

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RSF tells Indonesia to stop flouting journalists’ rights in Papua

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May 10, 2016

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Media face blockade over human rights reporting in Myanmar

November 8, 2016

New Caledonia's Assembly President Roch Wamytan talking to news media in Baku

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Time for France to grant New Caledonia independence, says Wamytan

July 13, 2023

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Vanuatu right to public information law now in force

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February 7, 2017

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Ben Bohane: A tribute to the ‘grand old man’ of the...

November 16, 2018

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Former PMW reporter talks to SA media on mosque massacre

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March 22, 2019

Covid-19 testing

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NZ lockdown – day 7: People in their 20s are ‘the...

April 1, 2020

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NZ’s coronavirus response ‘one of the strongest’, says WHO

April 29, 2020

NZ police snipers

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Tight security at NZ court for start of mosque attacker sentence...

August 24, 2020

Indonesian soldier in Papua

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Killing of Papuan clergyman sparks information clash, congregations flee

September 22, 2020

Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi

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Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament

February 10, 2021

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta

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‘Don’t put all eggs in one basket with China,’ warns Mahuta

April 20, 2021

A View From Afar podcast

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A View From Afar: Could Auckland’s LynnMall stabbing attack have been...

September 10, 2021

Papuans arrested and blindfolded in an Indonesian military crackdown in Maybrat Sept 2021

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Indonesian Games ‘held on bones of Papuans’, accuses Benny Wenda

October 6, 2021

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Women victims tell chief judge of Marcos-era martial law torture

September 6, 2016

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Norwegian human rights activists call for action over Israeli ‘capture’ of...

August 8, 2018

James Marape

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Scott Waide: My message to PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape

May 31, 2019

Shopping jitters

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NZ’s coronavirus cases climb to 39 but ‘no evidence’ of community...

March 20, 2020

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Police minister Kramer slams officers charging ‘illegal’ face mask spot fines

August 31, 2020

NZ Dawn Raids of the 1970s 160621

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Elderly Pasifika man sobs as memories of Dawn Raids surface over...

June 16, 2021

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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

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?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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

POPULAR POSTS

CNMI and Guam activists stage a rally protesting against the US military buildup in the Marianas

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‘Bridge for peace – not more bombs,’ say CNMI Gaza protesters

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (second from left) and other Melanesian leaders at the MSG summit

Development

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders discuss Middle East conflict before ceasefire

Palestinians face daily pogroms from brutal illegal Israeli settlers in the ocupied West Bank

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Iran accuses US over ‘torpedoed diplomacy’ – passes bill to halt...

President Emmanuel Macron (right) with New Caledonia Congress former presidents Louis Mapou (left) and Roch Wamytan (centre) last yea

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Macron invites all New Caledonia stakeholders for Paris talks

EDITOR'S PICKS

Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark

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Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential...

A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday

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Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

Palestine solidarity activists, university staff and students facing repression will be encouraged by Antoinette Lattouf’s (inset) victory

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Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers

Former Human Rights Watch head Ken Roth on Israel and genocide

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The ‘Godfather of Human Rights’ Ken Roth on genocide, Trump and...

MOST COMMENTS

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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

Fiji protesters in support of a "Free West Papua"

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Fiji human rights coalition challenges Rabuka over decolonisation ‘unfinished business’

Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark

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Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential...

CNMI and Guam activists stage a rally protesting against the US military buildup in the Marianas

Human Rights

‘Bridge for peace – not more bombs,’ say CNMI Gaza protesters

A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday

Human Rights

Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time