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PNG Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare's state funeral in 2021

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The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core

January 3, 2022

President Joe Biden

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Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s back

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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Bob Howarth: Role of journalism in developing and protecting democracy

An Eastern Star cartoon paying tribute to Vanuatu's support for West Papua

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Vanuatu – West Papua – MSG: An epic saga of messianic hope, betrayal, tragedy and resurrection

On a hilltop a few kilometres from Gaza

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Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page

September 9, 2024

Italy pandemic

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Confusion behind PNG’s first Covid-19 case – flawed state communications

Pacific Media Watch -

March 21, 2020

Jacinda Ardern

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Ardern now leads one of the most powerful governments NZ has...

November 4, 2020

Previous tariff announcements by the Trump administration dropped sand into the cogs of international trade

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New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs –...

April 3, 2025

Timor-Leste news

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‘We can’t keep working like this’ – a journalist’s plea to...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 26, 2020

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Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: The desecration of Oceania’s sacred place of learning

June 14, 2020

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) with President Prabowo Subianto at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, in April 2025

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Indonesia’s Pacific manoeuvres – money, military and silencing West Papua

May 11, 2025

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Typhoon Usman and nightmarish Christmas holiday times in Bicol

January 25, 2019

With no upper house, nor a written constitution, important laws can be fast-tracked or repealed by a simple majority of Parliament

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NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a...

November 15, 2024

West Papua protest against violence

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Why a NZ pilot is a pawn in the West Papua...

February 13, 2023

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‘Everything can be burnt’ – Melanesian West Papua in the Jokowi...

January 27, 2017

Flashback to Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's funeral in 2004

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How live TV technology changes have opened up remote areas of...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 8, 2025

As a low-lying atoll nation, Tuvalu is particularly exposed

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Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu...

April 13, 2025

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns (second from left)

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Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions

Pacific Media Watch -

April 21, 2024

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Ian Shirley: The NZ budget that has failed Auckland

May 31, 2016

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Don’t be fooled by Fiji PM’s apology over arrests –...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 12, 2019

Antigua and Barbuda on oceans

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Graham Davis: A COP26 slap in the face for Fiji’s ‘oceans...

November 10, 2021

The Media Council of PNG working with Transparency International PNG in 2021.

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New PNG media policy will lead to government control of news...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 20, 2023

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

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Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 5, 2026

Kanaky for independence from France

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New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia

May 28, 2024

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No Nauru election visa for SBS journalist despite presidential handshake

Pacific Media Watch -

July 10, 2016

Solomon Islands' Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare with Chinese President Xi Jinping

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Saying China ‘bought’ a military base in the Solomons is simplistic...

March 25, 2022

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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

Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear

Analysis

The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...

About 200 protesters in the Vallée-du-Tir yesterday marked the second anniversary of the pro-independence protests that erupted into riots in Nouméa

Analysis

Two years after New Caledonia’s violent uprising, tensions remain high

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...

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...

EDITOR'S PICKS

A photo of Indigenous West Papuan civilians in Distrik Tembagapura, Mimika, Central Papua, allegedly wounded by use of excessive force by Indonesian military

Asia Report

‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West...

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

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New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm...

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media

Analysis

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza...

"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...

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Australia

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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

A photo of Indigenous West Papuan civilians in Distrik Tembagapura, Mimika, Central Papua, allegedly wounded by use of excessive force by Indonesian military

Asia Report

‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West...

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Opinion

New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm...

Fiji media workers of the Fijian Media Association celebrate a belated World Press Freedom Day in the capital Suva

Democracy

Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn...

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media

Analysis

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza...