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Labour Party's associate foreign affairs spokesperson Phil Twyford (right) receives the open letter

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100 Christian leaders’ open letter calls for NZ humanitarian visas for trapped Gaza families

March 13, 2025

Former Fijian President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau

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Fiji’s former President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau dies at 84

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds

The alleged assault on an elderly protester at the Otāutahi Palestine solidarity rally

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Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police

The burnt out remains of a car seen near the University of Caledonia

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Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: NZ student in Nouméa taught to use fire extinguishers

AUT vice-chancellor Professor Damon Salesa

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AUT VC Damon Salesa responds over 170 academic staff cuts

Pacific Media Watch -

December 7, 2022

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Indonesian influence in the Pacific grows, brushing aside West Papua

August 3, 2018

Indonesian soldiers and equipment next to a civilian aircraft in West Papua. Image: ULMWP

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Papuan activist leader Wenda accuses Jakarta of ‘lying’ over shot down...

February 20, 2026

Jubilant scenes at the end of FestPAC 2024

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FestPAC 2024: Delegates wrap up with standing ovation for Kanaky, Vanuatu...

June 17, 2024

Bougainville President Ishamel Toroama speaking at the launch of the Bougainville Digital Democracy Project earlier this year

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Progress reported out of Bougainville independence talks at Burnham

June 12, 2025

Members of RAMSI military destroy surrendered weapons

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Transform Aqorau: Rethinking Solomon Islands security – focus on arms unsustainable

April 5, 2022

Protesters paying homage to the young Kanak martyrs killed in the Kanaky New Caledonia unrest

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Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Fiji, PNG call for UN decolonisation mission

June 13, 2024

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

Pacific Media Watch -

February 13, 2025

Protesters at last weekend's rally and march in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland condemned New Zealand's policy over Gaza

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PSNA condemns NZ ‘distraction’ over sanctions needed against Israel

August 21, 2025

Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe

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Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe – An exceptional Pacific life

August 1, 2022

Opposition Labour Party MP David Parker

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Labour’s Parker critical of weak NZ response to ICJ ruling against...

July 28, 2024

Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua

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Pasifika recipients say King’s Birthday honours not just theirs alone

June 2, 2025

Wartime Israeli paranoia

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Israel blocks Gaza aid organisations’ access to fuel, hospitals running out

June 21, 2025

PSNA secretary Neil Scott

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Public praise for High Court ruling on NZ Superfund policies on...

April 25, 2026

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

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‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement

March 19, 2025

Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

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Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 20, 2025

Bruce Shepherd

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Noumea-based NZ consul to French Pacific Bruce Shepherd dies

August 30, 2020

A mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran

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165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes...

March 8, 2026

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Top award for Māori, Treaty and colonial historian with new focus

Pacific Media Centre -

October 21, 2017

Climate protesters in Wellington in May

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NZ election 2023: Both Labour and National face multimillion dollar ‘climate...

September 22, 2023

BenarNews former Pacific editor Stefan Armbruster

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Pacific editor welcomes US court ruling in favour of Radio Free...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 25, 2025

How Al Jazeera reported the Gaza ceasefire deal

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Netanyahu claims ceasefire ‘success’ but Israeli public sees him as obstacle

October 9, 2025

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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Ex-coup convict George Speight

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Former coup leader re-enters Fiji political debate with challenge to immunity...

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

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Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025

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Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...

Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

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Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

EDITOR'S PICKS

Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

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Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

Three inmates, who scaled the fence at Baisu Prison, were shot dead

Crime

Dilapidated infrastructure blamed for fatal PNG prison escape attempt

The United States bombed Iran over a toll

Analysis

Lim Tean: The Hormuz ‘guardian’ turns pirate – 20% for tribute

Children in Gaza have paid tribute to Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

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Sheikh Hamad: The Arab leader who broke Israel’s siege on Gaza

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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

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

Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

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Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

Three inmates, who scaled the fence at Baisu Prison, were shot dead

Crime

Dilapidated infrastructure blamed for fatal PNG prison escape attempt

The United States bombed Iran over a toll

Analysis

Lim Tean: The Hormuz ‘guardian’ turns pirate – 20% for tribute

Children in Gaza have paid tribute to Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

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Sheikh Hamad: The Arab leader who broke Israel’s siege on Gaza