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Thousands of Papuan protesters

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Yamin Kogoya: Fatal disconnect between Jakarta and West Papua worsens settler-colonial occupation

June 6, 2022

Gaza Freedom Flotilla peace activist Thiago Ávila in an interview with journalist Abby Martin before being kidnapped by Israeli forces

Opinion

Why Israel’s ‘humane’ propaganda is such a sinister facade

On a hilltop a few kilometres from Gaza

Opinion

Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page

Opinion

Despite taking lead on global stage, Fiji pays price for climate crisis

Facebook's "Great Algorithm Machine"

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Michael Field: Freedom at midday – stories from Facebook prison

A "save the world" banner at last Saturday's pro-Palestinian march in Auckland's Viaduct precinct

Opinion

Gaza – an open question for NZ’s foreign minister Winston Peters

Pacific Media Watch -

July 23, 2025

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Opinion

The Fiji Times: A warning – funerals are the common exposure...

May 29, 2021

PNG PM James Marape

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PNG’s ‘power broker’ minister Marape elected 8th PM for 8 million...

May 30, 2019

PNG anti-corruption drive

Opinion

PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’

May 25, 2023

The Encampments

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The Encampments vs October 8 – a battle of narratives on...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 10, 2025

Welcome ... peace and Nazis

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Nick Rockel: Flower children and neo-Nazis, don’t hold the capital to...

February 21, 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

Pacific Media Watch -

August 29, 2022

Professor Pal Ahluwalia

Opinion

How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis

March 9, 2021

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s press conference on the first day of the Iran ceasefire on 8 April 2026

Opinion

Ending Israel’s war on peace – Iran’s 10-point proposal is serious

April 11, 2026

Opinion

Indonesia’s climate crisis: Is the world still looking away?

March 31, 2016

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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Marape blasts foreign media, claiming ‘fake news’ on mining conference

Pacific Media Watch -

December 9, 2022

Melbourne lockdown1

Opinion

Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 8, 2020

Fire and Fury screenshot

Opinion

A NZ media conundrum over how to cover the ‘dangerous’ conspiracists

Pacific Media Watch -

August 21, 2022

NZ election polls

Opinion

Rogue poll or not, all the signs point to a tectonic...

July 31, 2020

Papua Games venues

Opinion

The Jakarta Post: Delay the dangerous Papua Games over covid risks

Pacific Media Watch -

August 1, 2021

"The genocide didn't stop"

Opinion

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

Pacific Media Watch -

March 8, 2025

Opinion

Eelco Rohling: We need to get rid of carbon in the...

April 20, 2017

To describe Beijing’s engagement as “neocolonial” is to invite comparisons with the activities of the Western coalition

Opinion

Sea of Western flags in Oceania? It’s really about a continuing...

March 11, 2023

Australian academic and social justIce advocate Helen Hill

Opinion

Helen Hill: for social justice and Timor-Leste’s independence

July 23, 2024

Opinion

Gary Juffa: Shedding PNG blood for corporate interest – didn’t we...

December 22, 2016

Vaccination rates must keep climbing in NZ

Opinion

NZ’s covid-zero strategy may be past its use-by date, but it...

October 7, 2021

Maysoon Salama

Opinion

They are (using) us: ‘How is it okay for others to...

June 12, 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"

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

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...

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

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 free speech forum at Lingkaran Abepura in Jayapura last Monday

Asia Report

Papuan women ‘living in fear’ condemn military violence

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

Opinion

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

A drone view of the Marshalls Energy Company's main power plant in Majuro

Analysis

Majuro reels from huge power rate increase, as govt steps up...

Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa

Asia Report

‘Arrest wanted Filipino former police chief’ call by Amnesty after escape

EDITOR'S PICKS

"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland

Analysis

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...

A "No more complicity with war crimes" banner at a "Stop Wars" march at Devonport

Analysis

Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what...

Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa

Asia Report

‘Arrest wanted Filipino former police chief’ call by Amnesty after escape

Scenes from the Bondi Royal Commission

Analysis

NSW antisemitism hearings ‘drowned’ in the Bondi Royal Commission

MOST COMMENTS

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

"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland

Analysis

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...

A "No more complicity with war crimes" banner at a "Stop Wars" march at Devonport

Analysis

Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what...

Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa

Asia Report

‘Arrest wanted Filipino former police chief’ call by Amnesty after escape

Scenes from the Bondi Royal Commission

Analysis

NSW antisemitism hearings ‘drowned’ in the Bondi Royal Commission