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No debate about Vanuatu’s China TV plan and Radio Vanuatu coverage

February 29, 2016

NZME headquarters in Auckland

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Open letter to NZME board – don’t allow alt-right Canadian billionaire to take over NZ’s Fourth Estate

Under the old regime, press barons, from William Randolph Hearst to Rupert Murdoch, at least pretended they were committed to truth-telling journalism

Opinion

Murdoch to Musk: how global media power has shifted from the moguls to the big tech bros

Supporters of justice for Palestine are being "shadow banned" and censored

Opinion

Green Left fights another Facebook ban without warning over Gaza

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

Opinion

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

University of Papua New Guinea students protest against the US-PNG defence pact

Opinion

Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific

May 22, 2023

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Camille Nakhid: Covid-19, community prejudice and humanity in NZ

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September 1, 2020

NZ Media and Communications Minister Minister Dr Paul Goldsmith

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Does abolishing the BSA mean the end of NZ’s enforceable media...

May 7, 2026

Covid-19 and New Zealand

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Why we must not allow covid to become endemic in New...

October 13, 2021

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How corporations make money out of ‘feel-good’ feminism

March 8, 2020

Indonesian security forces intimidate Papuans

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West Papua and other critical issues – why is NZ media...

June 5, 2021

Paul Gauguin restaurant wedding

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Tahiti’s ‘wedding of the year’ turns into political row over covid...

August 13, 2021

Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28

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Iran threatens retaliation over Gulf ‘piracy’ in Trump’s naval blockade

April 14, 2026

Political prisoner Marwan Barghouti

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Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and...

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October 21, 2025

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Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

March 22, 2026

COP26 Glasgow

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COP26: Time for New Zealand to show regional leadership on climate...

October 30, 2021

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West Papua: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children

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January 21, 2020

This "Pied Piper" cartoon illustrating this commentary was drawn by Rod Emmerson.

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Gavin Ellis: A day to be gripped by fear – ‘freedom’...

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November 6, 2024

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Bill McKibben: Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau – he’s a disaster...

April 18, 2017

Another sacred day for West Papua

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Happy West Papua Day – and the brutal truth about where...

December 1, 2022

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

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Neoliberalism poisoned climate action and renewables are the antidote

August 3, 2016

Opinion

Sincha Dimara: My mother, a West Papuan survivor of many hardships,...

December 12, 2018

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NZ media ‘ignore’ Pacific’s West Papua story in spite of social...

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July 4, 2016

Opinion

Christchurch attacks a stark warning of toxic politics that enables hate

March 18, 2019

Jeremy Agar (right) and Murray Horton in Crusaders/Canterbury supporters regalia

Opinion

CAFCA stalwart and prolific reviewer Jeremy Agar dies

December 13, 2022

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

Opinion

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

April 8, 2026

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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"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Opinion

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

Coronavirus

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

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

Coronavirus

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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Opinion

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

Opinion

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

Opinion

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"

Opinion

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

Bearing Witness

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

APJS newsfile

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)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

A PNG Parliament press gallery monitor shows Opposition Leader James Nomane speaking during debate following the tabling of the Bougainville referendum result

Decolonisation

PNG’s parliament Bougainville vote still many months away

Crowds gather in Tehran on March 9 to celebrate the appointment of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei

Opinion

Six months on, Iran is still standing but survival is becoming...

Vanuatu Special Envoy on Decolonisation and Maritime Boundaries Delimitation Joe Natuman

Asia Report

Vanuatu special envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific...

All smiles for Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Development

Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Opinion

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Opinion

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...

Facilitators at a New Zealand public protest meeting in Auckland this week planning for a Global March for Palestine on October 10

Asia Report

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval

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Australia

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

Jacinda Ardern

Opinion

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

Opinion

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Opinion

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Opinion

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...

Facilitators at a New Zealand public protest meeting in Auckland this week planning for a Global March for Palestine on October 10

Asia Report

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval