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Lilo Ema Siope

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Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka voyaging

Sri Krishnamurthi -

July 22, 2020

Diversity Ziena Jalil

Opinion

Ziena Jalil: Why ticking the diversity boxes keeps missing the mark

Journalists say they have been directly fired at by Israeli troops

Opinion

NZ ‘inert’ over Israel’s ‘flagrant violations’ in occupied Palestine

The Media Council of PNG working with Transparency International PNG in 2021.

Opinion

New PNG media policy will lead to government control of news groups

Opinion

The man I never knew – a tribute to a PNG crash pilot’s tragic end

"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

"Democracy not deals"

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Saige England: We spoke truth to power and the powerful folded

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August 3, 2026

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John Minto: Urewera 10 years on – recounting the lessons of...

October 16, 2017

PSNA co-chair John Minto

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

Pacific Media Watch -

March 12, 2026

Trump and Netanyahu claim the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed

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Trump starts major ‘regime-change’ war with Iran, serving neoconservatism and Israel

March 1, 2026

The Democrat voters chose Dr Abdul El-Sayed because he’s a fighter

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El-Sayed’s Michigan primary win against tyranny a good omen for a...

August 7, 2026

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Dan McGarry: Want to lead in the Pacific? Try listening first

Pacific Media Watch -

April 17, 2018

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

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Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

May 13, 2026

MAF missionary plane

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Confusion reigns over real reasons for burning of missionary plane in...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 16, 2021

Sacked Fiji Bureau of Statistics Kemueli Naiqama

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Richard Naidu: The Fawlty Towers government – everything they touch...

September 18, 2021

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Wendy Bacon: Journalism is not a crime – why I support...

July 13, 2019

Assassinated in the US-Israel attacks . . . Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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US-Israel’s war of aggression – Epic Fury or Epic Screw-up?

March 4, 2026

News outlets around the world carried reports of the Hīkoi

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Cynical politics reported on world stage damage NZ’s reputation

Pacific Media Watch -

November 27, 2024

Solidarity from another decolonisation struggle - West Papua

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Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing...

June 1, 2025

Protesters in Auckland call for a permanent end to the war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and for justice

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New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable

March 18, 2025

Pro-Palestinian students hold a sit-in at Melbourne University

Opinion

In Australia, pro-Palestinian voices face a frenzy of Zionist McCarthyism

July 25, 2024

The great drawback of democracy

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Why The Conversation will focus on policy over personality in Australian...

April 11, 2022

Dictator of Year Spinoff

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How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for...

November 23, 2021

Samoan Parliament

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Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach

June 3, 2021

Supporters of justice for Palestine are being "shadow banned" and censored

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Green Left fights another Facebook ban without warning over Gaza

Pacific Media Watch -

March 30, 2024

Opinion

West Papua: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children

Pacific Media Watch -

January 21, 2020

Honouring Hisoshima Day and the International Day for the World's Indigenous Peoples this month

Opinion

Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum

August 16, 2024

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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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Opinion

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

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...

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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 Free Palestine Party

Asia Report

Free Palestine Party becomes latest political party in Aotearoa

Daily Post editor and political commentator Martyn Bradbury and revealed complainant Ani O’Brien

Democracy

Free Speech Union board member revealed in Daily Blog editor Martyn...

Some Americans are fighting every day to save the babies of Cuba

Opinion

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi

Justice

Samoa opposition leader arrested over comments about PM

EDITOR'S PICKS

Former FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali

Democracy

Fiji court rules COI report into Malimali appointment was unlawful, null...

Lawyer Juleen Fatiaki, counsel for Charlie Charters

Democracy

Fiji judge orders motion seeking return of journalists’ e-devices seized by...

Carlile House in Auckland's Grey Lynn

Civil Society

Church owning historic Carlile House talks with Auckland Council about demolishing...

The Fiji Women's Crisis Centre team

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Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre turns 42 – reflections on a milestone

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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 Fiji Women's Crisis Centre team

Opinion

Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre turns 42 – reflections on a milestone

An Auckland protest against Rocket Lab's implication in the Gaza genocide earlier this year

Asia Report

Palestinian Kiwis, Māori doctor file claim against NZ govt over Gaza...

Australian Antiosemitismn Commission Jillian Segal (centre) with husband John Roth (right)

Asia Report

The Segal State 2 – the mask, the children, the money...

Solomon Islands journalist George Atkin

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Pacific media figures pay tribute to Solomons legend George Atkin