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The ABC’s role in Australia’s Pacific reset – valued and highly trusted

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September 5, 2022

Ardern + Trump

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Kaniva News: Amnesty time for NZ overstayers to help check virus spread

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Wadan Narsey: BDO report is not ‘history’ for Pacific taxpayers

Rukuwai Tīpene-Allen Maori TV

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Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive as a Māori journalist

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

"Housing is a human right"

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John Minto: Where are the journalists to tackle NZ’s prime ministerial...

September 9, 2022

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To conserve West Papua, start with land rights and forget past...

October 10, 2018

What lies ahead at Baku?

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COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed

November 10, 2024

Cabinet Minister David Parker has thrown a real spanner in the works for Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

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Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more...

August 1, 2023

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Peter S. Kinjap: Development and injustice – expect the worst in...

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December 15, 2016

The Pacific Newsroom

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Social media ‘bullshit’ threatens coping with covid-19 outbreak in PNG

March 23, 2021

"It is still not too late, however, for New Zealand to take a lead

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NZ is trailing its allies over Palestinian statehood – but there’s...

August 21, 2025

Sitiveni Rabuka

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Graham Davis: In the stars? It’s in the polls, Rabuka’s final...

September 10, 2021

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More than hashtags needed to defy terror in Indonesia

January 19, 2016

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Labour and National leaders contest debate ‘draw’ but sharply different

September 22, 2020

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Tourist mood in Fiji but no holiday in newsrooms

August 16, 2015

Lawyer Richard Naidu outside the High Court in Suva

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Wadan Narsey: Shameful silences over another unfolding tragedy in Fiji

October 18, 2022

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Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel

Pacific Media Watch -

May 7, 2018

Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed

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Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide

Pacific Media Watch -

January 22, 2025

Melbourne lockdown1

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

Pacific Media Watch -

July 8, 2020

Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

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War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...

March 13, 2026

Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs Chairman Ratu Viliame Seruvakula and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Eroding trust in Fiji politics – lessons of 2025 and beyond

January 26, 2026

Dark Times Academy's Mandy Henk speaking at the Asia Pacific Media Network event

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How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and...

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April 26, 2025

Under international law -- if anyone still pays attention to such things -- the Iranians have a strong case

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Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...

April 27, 2026

Trump supporters marching on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021

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How New Zealand is venturing down the road of political upheaval

March 12, 2025

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Critics see Fiji’s Online Safety Act as ‘Trojan horse’ for online...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 23, 2019

A New Zealand soldier on patrol in Bamiyan Province

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New Zealand should never have joined the war in Afghanistan

August 19, 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

Global Sumud Flotilla boats have been intercepted illegally by Israeli Defense Forces

Asia Report

NZer in flotilla intercepted by Israel has concussion and possible broken...

"Hands up" . . . Global Sumud Flotilla protesters

Asia Report

Former Greek minister slams ‘Western complicity’ over brutal Israeli kidnap...

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has expressed grave concern for the safety and well-being of human rights activists Palestinian Saif Abu Kishek and Brazilian Thiago Ávila, who were abducted by Israeli commandos

Asia Report

Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli...

Reporters Without Borders says for the first time in the Index's history, more than half of the world's countries now fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories for press freedom

Australia

Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain...

EDITOR'S PICKS

PINA president Kalafi Moala

Asia Report

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

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Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

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

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

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After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

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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

Tongan police are investigating the threat against a Kele'a journalist incident on April 23

Crime

Tongan police investigate journalist threatened at gunpoint after gang-related report

PINA president Kalafi Moala

Asia Report

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

Opinion

Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Opinion

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