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Murray Horton: Well done, Mr Weldon, for ‘sinking’ TV3

May 7, 2016

Opinion

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

Douglas Marau

Opinion

Wendy Amangongo: Where is MASI over the Solomons Facebook ban?

Pro-Palestine protesters set off a blood-red flare outside the US Consulate in the peaceful March for Peace demonstration in Auckland

Opinion

Paul Hopkinson: Why NZ’s ‘Free Palestine’ party seeks to put Gaza genocide at centre of politics

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird

Opinion

East Sepik governor Allan Bird on how to ‘change the trajectory’ of PNG

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Opinion

Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear

January 23, 2025

Donald Trump

Opinion

With re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in...

November 6, 2020

Opinion

Typhoon Usman and nightmarish Christmas holiday times in Bicol

January 25, 2019

Opinion

Massive tourism development proposal for Port Vila poses urban challenge

December 17, 2016

A PNG soldier guarding Bougainville's Panguna mine in 1989

Opinion

Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave...

June 7, 2025

Martial Law

Opinion

Crispin C. Maslog: Martial law amnesia – we didn’t teach history...

Pacific Media Centre -

April 23, 2016

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

Opinion

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

April 27, 2026

New Director-General of Health Audrey Sonerson

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Health chief ‘conductor of an orchestra who’s never played an instrument’

May 20, 2025

Jacinda Ardern

Opinion

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

June 29, 2020

A poster promoting a protest against the Gaza genocide planned for outside the South Australian Parliament

Opinion

Why NZ should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

January 7, 2024

A fragment of the 1840 Tiriti o Waitangi

Opinion

Australians should be wary of scare stories about New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal

May 2, 2023

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay

Opinion

Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality

Pacific Media Watch -

July 23, 2023

Israel accepts the ceasefire

Opinion

Ramzy Baroud: The fallout – winners and losers from the Israeli...

June 24, 2025

Community members in Iowa protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran

Opinion

New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa

March 4, 2026

Opinion

Elizabeth Cox: Bring back a revitalised Radio Australia to all rural...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2018

Incoming Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka on TVNZ News

Opinion

A knife-edge election in Fiji sees power shift – and a...

December 23, 2022

Fijian Elections Office staff busy at the National Results Centre

Opinion

The Fiji Times: Kingmakers and the big post-election reveal!

December 19, 2022

Auckland's flash floods 2023

Opinion

Nick Young: NZ’s climate floods expose stark truth – people paying...

February 2, 2023

New Zealand's government and its sycophantic media need more time to argue about this very "complex" Gaza genocide

Opinion

Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if –...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 17, 2025

Opinion

Detained Freedom Flotilla journalist speaks out over Israeli illegal actions

Pacific Media Watch -

August 23, 2018

Lawyer Richard Naidu

Opinion

AG raises Suva lawyers’ ‘little confidence’ social media posts

Pacific Media Watch -

June 8, 2021

Opinion

Gary Juffa: Why these PNG elections are taking us towards dictatorship

July 2, 2017

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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

Protesters from Americans Abroad Against the War (AAAW) taking part in a recent Auckland march against the US war on Iran

Asia Report

‘Profound strategic misjudgment’ – why Iran may have upper hand in...

New Zealand pro-Palestine protesters stage a rally in Te Komititanga Square

Analysis

The Gulf tollbooth that demands real recognition – Iran closes the...

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

Opinion

Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...

Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Dr Sailele Malielegaoi

Democracy

Samoa opposition leader says treason inquiry delayed over lack of evidence

EDITOR'S PICKS

Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Opinion

Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

Three inmates, who scaled the fence at Baisu Prison, were shot dead

Crime

Dilapidated infrastructure blamed for fatal PNG prison escape attempt

The United States bombed Iran over a toll

Opinion

Lim Tean: The Hormuz ‘guardian’ turns pirate – 20% for tribute

Children in Gaza have paid tribute to Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Analysis

Sheikh Hamad: The Arab leader who broke Israel’s siege on Gaza

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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

Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Opinion

Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

Three inmates, who scaled the fence at Baisu Prison, were shot dead

Crime

Dilapidated infrastructure blamed for fatal PNG prison escape attempt

The United States bombed Iran over a toll

Opinion

Lim Tean: The Hormuz ‘guardian’ turns pirate – 20% for tribute

Children in Gaza have paid tribute to Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Analysis

Sheikh Hamad: The Arab leader who broke Israel’s siege on Gaza