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A mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran

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165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes the West’s moral selectivity

March 8, 2026

From Jabotinsky to Netanyahu, Israeli leaders built a doctrine of psychological dominance

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Ramzy Baroud: Israel’s greatest weapon was fear – and it’s now failing

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Why we may have lost battle against China’s coronavirus

Blazing house in the attack on Pai Police Barracks

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Post-Courier blasts Marape for Jakarta junket ‘while Tari burns’

NZ climate action protest

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Climate Change Commission calls on NZ to take ‘immediate, decisive action’

Showing how it's done in Dili - Wang Yi media conference

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Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers

June 5, 2022

‎Recognising and respecting local value systems is not about compromising press freedom

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Culture at the core: examining journalism values in the Pacific

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May 21, 2025

A mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran

Opinion

165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes...

March 8, 2026

PSNA co-chair John Minto

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Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...

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March 12, 2026

Indonesian security forces block Indigenous West Papuans protesting in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta against land seizures

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Prabowo takes power as Indonesian military set up new battalions – what...

October 25, 2024

Auckland's flash floods 2023

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

February 2, 2023

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Keith Jackson: From cusp of defeat, O’Neill’s stunning attempt to ‘steal’...

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July 29, 2017

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Endangered – the frontline journalism of outrage

January 15, 2017

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Kanaky independence campaign rolls on … encouraged by ballot result

November 8, 2018

NZ PM Jacinda Ardern

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Chris Trotter: Why the right-wing media hates Jacinda’s covid elimination strategy

August 27, 2021

Former Vanuatu Daily Post media director Dan McGarry

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Former Vanuatu Daily Post media director Dan McGarry leaves legacy

Pacific Media Watch -

March 26, 2026

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Martha Louis: We need to to do our bit in helping...

March 27, 2018

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New Timor treaty will finally set borders to resolve oil, gas...

March 7, 2018

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Words matter in telling West Papuan news stories

Pacific Media Watch -

April 1, 2023

The central conceit of the good cop, bad cop narrative is that both the US and Israel are the ones upholding the law and fighting the criminals

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Jonathan Cook: From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked...

January 8, 2026

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Scott Waide: Why sorcery superstition thrives in PNG where services are...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 26, 2017

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Vanuatu police chief court case, finance ‘grey list’ pose challenges

February 3, 2017

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Janet Tupou: Speaking life into your goals and seeing dreams come...

January 30, 2019

Meisoga

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Scott Waide: Playwright Andrew Kuliniasi unleashes another creative bomb – on...

February 2, 2021

Job Rongo’au reporting on the Honiara riots for ZFM Radio

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Solomon Islands – where the world news talent is all local

Pacific Media Watch -

December 6, 2021

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Martyn Bradbury: Still awaiting the birth of a real Fourth Estate

Pacific Media Watch -

May 18, 2018

Palestinian child at NZ rally

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Marilyn Garson: Ceasefire, but we cannot let this go the same...

May 25, 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

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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

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...

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

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Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

Fiji has climbed from 40th place in 2025 in the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index

Democracy

Political reforms drive Fiji’s big press freedom gains, says RSF

"Hands up" . . . Global Sumud Flotilla protesters

Asia Report

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

Indonesian police launch a brutal crackdown against Papuan protesters

Asia Report

Wenda calls on Indonesia to halt crackdown on peaceful Papua protests

EDITOR'S PICKS

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

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

PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea

Democracy

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

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Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March

Democracy

FMA praises Fiji media workers for press freedom climb but warns...

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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

PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea

Democracy

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

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...

Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March

Democracy

FMA praises Fiji media workers for press freedom climb but warns...