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Timor-Leste indpendence

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East Timor-style referendum possible for Papua, says Jakarta Post editor

Pacific Media Watch -

August 27, 2019

Pro-Palestinian protesters carrying the Fiji and Tongan national flags

Opinion

War on Gaza: The US plan to revamp Palestinian Authority is doomed

Artificial intelligence

Opinion

Will AI decide one day humans are messing up the world and take over?

Assault on deaf Papuan teenager 26 July 2021

Opinion

Outrage over Indonesian officers for stomping on disabled Papuan teen’s head

Author and human rights advocate Jim Aubrey

Opinion

Open letter: Canberra must call on UN to ‘rectify breaches’ over West Papuan decolonisation

Opinion

Wadan Narsey: Are there two sets of prosecuting rules in Fiji?

February 2, 2017

Papuan students protest over the 1962 Rome Agreement at one of last Saturday's many demonstrations

Opinion

West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement

October 5, 2023

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

Opinion

New Zealand PM’s diplomatic debacle and geopolitical hypocrisy over Fiji

Pacific Media Watch -

June 22, 2016

Gas mask soldiers

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Climate crisis: Bold call for security partners to prevent ‘catastrophe’

June 26, 2019

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

Opinion

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

March 6, 2022

Douglas Marau

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

Pacific Media Watch -

November 21, 2020

Need work

Opinion

Bryan Bruce: Unemployment isn’t working – we need universal job creation

August 20, 2020

Opinion

42 years after Timor-Leste’s declared independence, a democracy plea

November 28, 2017

Opinion

Scott Waide: How China is several moves ahead in Port Moresby

November 17, 2018

BAKTI at Pacific 2019 Expo

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Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts...

July 16, 2019

Opinion

Kanaky independence campaign rolls on … encouraged by ballot result

November 8, 2018

"Chaos in Washington"

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‘This is a banana republic?’ – the Caribbean reacts to the...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 11, 2021

Fiji Parliament . . . big salary increases for the President, Speaker, Ministers, Assistant Ministers, and MPs

Opinion

The Fiji Times: Public outcry over Fijians’ MPs pay rise

May 26, 2024

Opinion

Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything

July 15, 2019

Police Commisioner David Manning

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Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree?...

January 26, 2021

Independent writer Eugene Doyle

Opinion

Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide

June 2, 2025

PNG torture

Opinion

The harrowing picture that tells a thousand words about tragedy

Pacific Media Watch -

June 27, 2020

Fiame Naomi Mata’afa

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Samoa Observer: Swearing-in strengthens nation’s foundation

Pacific Media Watch -

May 25, 2021

Save Papuan journalists

Opinion

Indonesia’s cover up over Papuan media freedom violations exposed

July 22, 2019

Opinion

Endangered – the frontline journalism of outrage

January 15, 2017

BDS focuses on the actions of Israel as a colonial, occupying power

Opinion

Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of...

January 9, 2025

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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

Israeli soldiers board a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla vessel and hold the crew at gunpoint

Asia Report

Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla...

“My son,” a woman screamed in Gaza

Asia Report

Palestinian photojournalist wins Pulitzer for breaking news photography

Pacific media in action .

Crime

Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Papua's Tom Beanal

Opinion

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

EDITOR'S PICKS

New Caledonia’s special electoral card for Congress and provincial elections

Decolonisation

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll

Israeli soldiers board a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla vessel and hold the crew at gunpoint

Asia Report

Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla...

Israeli military intervene in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea to seize the Global Sumud Fleet

Asia Report

Irish president’s sister, 2 Kiwis among Gaza flotilla activists detained by...

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Asia Report

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

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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

"The message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out."

Analysis

Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

New Caledonia’s special electoral card for Congress and provincial elections

Decolonisation

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll

Israeli soldiers board a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla vessel and hold the crew at gunpoint

Asia Report

Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla...

Multinational police probe into Fiji officers

Crime

Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade...