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Pro-independence fighters from the Highlands-based Defence Region Command of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB). Image: TPNPB/RNZ Pacific

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Human rights researcher pleads for West Papuan rebels to free NZ pilot

February 9, 2023

Pro-Palestnian Professor John Keane (left) and linguist and vice-president of the USyd National Tertiary Education Union, Dr Nick Rieme

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Antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Sydney Uni pressure to silence Israel, apartheid critics

Recent Indonesian military images showing torture of indigenous Papuans

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Open letter: AWPA calls on Wong to protest to Jakarta over brutal torture

PACMAS team leader Alex Rheeney speaking at the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference in Suva, Fiji, last week

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Pacific media in crisis, warns former PNG, Samoa editor Alex Rheeney

PNG's Deputy Opposition Leader Douglas Tomuriesa

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PNG opposition calls for emergency over Highlands naked body killings

PNG Police Commissioner David Manning

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PNG police chief demands covid-19 emergency funding reports from UN

April 11, 2022

Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark speaking on the deck of the Rainbow Warrior

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Keep fighting for a nuclear-free Pacific, Helen Clark warns Greenpeace over...

July 21, 2025

RNZ will continue to lease back 12 ha of the regained Whitireia whenua

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Ngāti Toa Rangatira celebrates return of sacred maunga Whitireia from RNZ

October 17, 2025

Asia Pacific Media Network's Professor David Robie

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50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 3, 2024

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

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Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

July 11, 2026

Indonesian soldiers board a transport ship for Papua

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The Jakarta Post: Stop fighting fire with fire in Papua –...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 28, 2024

"The genocide didn't stop"

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The world cannot ignore Trump’s death threat to my people of...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 8, 2025

PNG's Finance Minister Rainbo Paita

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UPNG student protesters call for ‘transparency’ over US defence pact

May 22, 2023

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Don’t lump Pacific issues into ‘Asia Pacific’, warns PNG’s Juffa

February 9, 2019

Iora Open MP Theonila Roka Matbob in central Bougainville

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Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat

July 27, 2025

A Papuan online discussion themed "Demography, Expansion and Development of Papua

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Papuan academics accuse Indonesia of new ‘indigenous marginalisation’ strategy

September 20, 2023

Fijians in the capital Suva celebrate the end of 16 years of authoritarian rule - eight years of military dictatorship followed by a rigid "democracy".

Indigenous

David Robie: 2022 Pacific political upheavals eclipse Tongan volcano

December 31, 2022

Papuan Student Association Oceania musicians

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‘Forgotten’ Melanesians host their first cultural festival in Aotearoa

October 23, 2022

Toeolesulusulu Dr Damon Salesa

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Pacific scholar Dr Damon Salesa named AUT’s next vice-chancellor

November 15, 2021

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Southern Cross makes 2020 debut with Black Brothers and health crises

Pacific Media Watch -

March 2, 2020

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (left) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape pictured in September 2024

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Bougainville president condemns ‘dangerous’ AI-generated fake video of scuffle with Marape

Pacific Media Watch -

April 7, 2025

Indigenous

How the Palestine Authority and Israel are allies in silencing the...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 3, 2025

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Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners

May 30, 2019

A BDS - boycott, divestment and sanctions - placard

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NZ Palestine protesters condemn govt over failure to impose sanctions against...

November 8, 2025

Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler

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Roger Fowler, a legend of the Aotearoa solidarity movement, dies at...

February 22, 2026

Incoming new Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

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Chlöe Swarbrick to replace NZ’s outgoing Green Party co-leader James Shaw

March 10, 2024

Indigenous

The Intan Jaya conflict: A risk of more widespread violence in...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 7, 2021

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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

Indigenous

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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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

Indigenous

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

Indigenous

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"

Indigenous

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

Indigenous

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

Indigenous

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)

Indigenous

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters in Palau for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

Democracy

Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale

West Papuan advocate Paula Makabory

Indigenous

West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’...

PSNA's Leeann Wahanui-Peters reading out Te Pāti Māori's statement for co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

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NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Asia Report

Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau

EDITOR'S PICKS

Secular Jewish socialist and peace activist Tony Greenstein

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The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs...

Fiji's Lautoka City Council says it has started in collaboration with the Fiji Police Force

Indigenous

Who is responsible? Glaring lack of clarity over Fiji operation to...

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Climate

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Indigenous

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

MOST COMMENTS

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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

Secular Jewish socialist and peace activist Tony Greenstein

Indigenous

The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs...

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024

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‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom?

Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine

Indigenous

PSNA raps NZ govt over ‘haphazard’ foreign policy and mixed messages

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Climate

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...