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What would Alfred Nobel have said?

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Eugene Doyle: The Nobel Peace laureate who calls for US bombing of her own country

October 13, 2025

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Journalist tells of Rainbow Warrior bombing, Pacific fallout on ABC

Adelaide Writers' Week Festival Board members who resigned

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Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

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Police commissioners in Tonga and the dropped reforms

"No circumspection. No leadership."

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No apologies over fabricated terror plot from pollies or lobby groups

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

January 27, 2023

PNG Prime Minister James Marape addressing the Australian Federal Parliament

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Marape thanks Australia for providing an ‘anchor’ for independent PNG

February 8, 2024

Together with their students and graduates, academics are the university

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NZ universities are not normal Crown institutions – they shouldn’t be ‘Tiriti-led’

April 3, 2023

West Papua on Google

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How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education

February 15, 2022

Fiji's Parliament in Suva

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Will Fiji’s 2022 hotly contested elections further cement democracy?

August 13, 2022

Owen Wilkes

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Murray Horton: Reflections on Owen Wilkes, iconic peace researcher, adventurer and...

March 8, 2021

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns (second from left)

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Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions

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April 21, 2024

Journalist Antoinette Lattouf’s lawsuit against the public broadcaster ABC

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In the quest to appease Israel, the media undermine our basic...

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February 14, 2025

News Corp, has long criticised university journalism education

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Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business...

February 4, 2022

Fiji lawyer Richard Naidu's reply to former attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

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‘Claims a serious matter’ – lawyer Richard Naidu responds to Sayed-Khaiyum’s...

January 23, 2023

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Ben Bohane: China? No, let’s face the elephant in the Pacific...

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April 23, 2018

And now there are 10 in BRICS, the alternative to the G7 bloc

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Indonesia joins BRICS: What now for West Papuan goal of independence?

January 14, 2025

If the New Zealand pilot does get out alive, he deserves the media attention lavished on the Australian

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Duncan Graham: Compromise worked in Aceh – why not West Papua?...

June 1, 2023

Hele Christopher-Ikimotu

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Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live

July 14, 2021

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Dame Susan Devoy: We have a choice on how our media...

May 3, 2016

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Selwyn Manning: More intrusive spy laws loom for NZ

March 10, 2016

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Daily Post: No pardons for Vanuatu politicians – no one is...

March 7, 2019

Hon. Vuna Fā’otusia

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Did sense of betrayal lead Tonga’s Fā’otusia to miss confidence vote?

January 13, 2021

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Critics see Fiji’s Online Safety Act as ‘Trojan horse’ for online...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 23, 2019

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Bryan Bruce: Why I have run out of words – and...

June 9, 2020

Papuan protesters at Papua govt office

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Papuans protest over draconian bid by Jakarta to replace Governor Enembe

June 28, 2021

Helen Clark

Opinion

Two former NZ prime ministers call for US to restore global...

November 6, 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

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

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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"

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

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Minuteman III test launch, California

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The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

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The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

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Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

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Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

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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

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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

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The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

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The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

Civil Society

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

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Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

Tehran doesn't answer vulgarity with vulgarity

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‘They’re scum.’ F bombs and real bombs. Trump completely outclassed by...