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

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Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when – but not now’

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August 17, 2025

Professor Pal Ahluwalia

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Covid, culture and USP’s fight to save academic freedom

A street artist adds to a mural of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh

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John Minto: Exposing Israel’s horrific record in targeted killing of journalists

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Arun Kundnani: The West’s Islamophobia is only helping the ‘Islamic State’

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West Papua – ‘a nation in waiting’: Behind this week’s uprising

Menyamya bows & arrows

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Remembering Menyamya schoolboy skills with bow and arrow in PNG

May 15, 2020

Asia Pacific Media Network's Dr David Robie talks to PMN's Pacific Mornings

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David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s...

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July 4, 2024

Human rights abuses against Palestinians and the people of West Papua

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John Minto: The hypocrisy of NZ’s silence in calling out Israeli,...

February 15, 2022

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Sasya Wreksono: We mourn, reflect and face up to NZ’s ‘fragment...

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March 17, 2019

Multichannel approach by ABC

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

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September 5, 2022

Papua Governor Lukas Enembe

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Fate of Papua’s Governor Enembe – the ‘son of Koteka’ –...

September 24, 2022

Port Moresby housing

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Rebecca Kuku: No end in sight for Port Moresby’s unaffordable rental...

January 6, 2021

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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End sexism and ‘invisibility’ of women in the media

December 4, 2015

Nakba Day in Auckland this week

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Open letter challenges Zionist advert missing Gaza ‘injustices’ in Herald

May 16, 2024

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian

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Guessing game over when Iran is about to strike Israel over...

August 13, 2024

Ishmael Toroama

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Bougainville president-elect Ishmael Toroama – rebel, peacemaker, farmer

September 23, 2020

"Journalists must use their imagination to exercise empathy in reporting.

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Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral...

March 17, 2026

James Marape

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Scott Waide: Open letter to PM James Marape: Treat our people fairly

January 2, 2021

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COP21: ‘We don’t want to die in silence’ – indigenous people...

December 8, 2015

Hīkoi mō te Tiriti

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NZ’s Hīkoi challenging controversial draft bill ‘redefines activism’, says Herald

Pacific Media Watch -

November 14, 2024

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

Big stick diplomacy – the willingness to use the military – was increasingly unleashed to assert US hegemony and business interests

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Eugene Doyle: Look where appeasing a bully has led the West...

January 20, 2026

Author Eugene Doyle with Special Envoy Francesca Albanese

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Eugene Doyle: Silencing Francesca Albanese – ‘Not in our name’ Gaza...

February 17, 2026

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Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka: Don’t be bullied, Indonesia is not Melanesia

May 28, 2016

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Jakarta – many ‘spikes’ but it’s the city I grew to...

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April 30, 2016

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

October 19, 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

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

“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

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...

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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

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MEAA members at the ABC have overwhelmingly backed a motion defending the rights of elected union representatives

Australia

Australian journalist and unionist threatened with disciplinary action over opinion article

No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel

Opinion

Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police...

Round 1 to the PNG Chiefs in NZ High Court

Australia

High Court declines NZ Rugby’s bid for interim injunction on PNG...

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MEAA members at the ABC have overwhelmingly backed a motion defending the rights of elected union representatives

Australia

Australian journalist and unionist threatened with disciplinary action over opinion article

Fiji's Tui Nayau, Ratu Tevita Mara

Culture

Fijian chief warns coup immunity debate must address inequality and social...

"The intifada is global now"

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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

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De Gaulle: Résistance and the subjective history of anti-Nazi struggle during...

Badly beaten photographer Heidi Levine in hospital

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Masked settler assault on Washington Post photographer a snapshot of Israel’s...

MEAA members at the ABC have overwhelmingly backed a motion defending the rights of elected union representatives

Australia

Australian journalist and unionist threatened with disciplinary action over opinion article

"The intifada is global now"

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