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"Trouble is brewing in the West, as people realise just how controlled their rulers are."

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12 reasons why a huge split is opening up in the West over US-Israel’s ‘manifestly illegal’ war on Iran

March 3, 2026

Author Phil Kafcaloudes (centre) with Australia Calling colleagues

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Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement

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Jane Kelsey: Labour and the TPPA – time to come clean before election

Norwegian media VG and Aftenposten

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Gavin Ellis: Dregs in the news media paywall teacup

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

PNG Police Commissioner David Manning

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Post-Courier: Violence in any form is a serious disease – target...

March 11, 2022

Desecration of Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral by baton-wielding armed Israeli police

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Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 17, 2022

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‘Stay home, stay safe, be kind’: What NZ can teach the...

May 30, 2020

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‘The people have spoken’ – Fiji Times comments on a...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 19, 2018

How Palestine has been swallowed up by Greater Israel expansionism since the 1948 Nakba

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As Trump basks in Gulf Arab applause, Israel massacres children in...

May 15, 2025

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape has pledged to Parliament that he will "restore police leadership to stabilise Enga"

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Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry

Pacific Media Watch -

February 21, 2024

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Sano Malifa: Criminal libel and PM Tuilaepa’s ‘gift’ from American Samoa

Pacific Media Watch -

January 8, 2018

Kerema open air market

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Rebecca Kuku: PNG’s Gulf Province, ignored for too long but now...

December 31, 2020

"The intifada is global now"

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Eight ways to spot toxic hasbara trolls and being a keyboard...

October 17, 2026

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Bryan Kramer: PM says PNG revolt ‘isn’t over’ – I say...

November 13, 2020

Leaked messages from a WhatsApp group called "Lawyers for Israel"

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Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 20, 2024

Cans collecting

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Laurens Ikinia: Trash cans and study, a short story of Papuan...

February 12, 2021

Fiji Sun headline 22032022

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History repeats in Fiji?: Police chief warns of election ‘instability’

Pacific Media Watch -

March 22, 2022

Guess which attack, according to our media, threatens world peace?

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Palestine double standards: Ten lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

March 6, 2022

Children at the forefront of an Otauhi

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Palestinians return home to Gaza ashes – if we want peace,...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 22, 2025

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

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CAFCA stalwart and prolific reviewer Jeremy Agar dies

December 13, 2022

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Gallery: Massive volunteer effort in tackling Auckland’s floods

January 29, 2023

Some of the estimated 100,000 to 300,000 people - depending on whose estimate - who protested yesterday on the Sydney Harbour Bridge over Israel's genocidal war on Gaza

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Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2025

While Australia's Palestine Action Group plans protests against the visit of the Israeli President Isaac Herzog

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Isaac Herzog is accused of inciting genocide in Gaza. He shouldn’t...

February 7, 2026

West Papua independence supporters in Manokwari

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A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 17, 2024

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Massive tourism development proposal for Port Vila poses urban challenge

December 17, 2016

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Farewell, Papa Joe – a Pacific beacon of calm and wise...

September 5, 2020

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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

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

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Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

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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

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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

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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"

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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...

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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

The BBC still runs its story on six-year-old Hind Rajab, killed by Israeli forces, under the headline "Hind Rajab, 6, found dead

Analysis

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death...

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Opinion

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Israel has been added to the Pacific Islands Forum list as a sectoral partner

Culture

‘Strengthening ties’ or ‘shameful’? – why Israel’s new Pacific status is...

EDITOR'S PICKS

A section of the cover of New Zealand author Peter Macky's new book, Gaza: Anatomy of a Genocide

Asia Report

NZ author praised over new book ‘bearing witness’ to Gaza genocide

Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai

Culture

Fiji military seeks end to constitutional immunity, pledges neutrality

Activist Achmat Eesau

Asia Report

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

"'Ungrounding' is a kind of destruction that we have not seen anywhere else

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‘Ungrounding’ – Eyal Weizman on Gaza genocide and Israel’s ‘architecture of...

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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 section of the cover of New Zealand author Peter Macky's new book, Gaza: Anatomy of a Genocide

Asia Report

NZ author praised over new book ‘bearing witness’ to Gaza genocide

Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai

Culture

Fiji military seeks end to constitutional immunity, pledges neutrality

Activist Achmat Eesau

Asia Report

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

"'Ungrounding' is a kind of destruction that we have not seen anywhere else

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‘Ungrounding’ – Eyal Weizman on Gaza genocide and Israel’s ‘architecture of...