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Mong Palatino: Cyber trolling targets opposition against Duterte’s Terror Bill

June 9, 2020

Owen Wilkes speaking at a protest at the US base at Christchurch Airport

Opinion

‘Lots of information isn’t secret, it’s just hard to find’ – Nicky Hager on one of NZ’s most famous whistleblowers

A "Stop RIMPAC forever" poster.

Opinion

RIMPAC 2026: Part 2 – Hawai’ian activist torpedoes lies about US ‘security and respect’

USP's Laucala campus in Suva

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FijiFirst election candidates lineup – a bit light on educational credits

Labour Day in NZ

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Bryan Bruce: Labour Day … eroded by neoliberalism and selfishness

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Indonesia reviews Papua special funds – why $7.4bn since 2002 hasn’t...

February 24, 2020

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Tackling two sides of the Samoa story – it’s more than...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 16, 2016

Opinion

Ukraine, Israel, racism and the tired hypocrisy over refugees and Palestine

April 1, 2022

Desecration of Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral by baton-wielding armed Israeli police

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Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 17, 2022

Opinion

Mediawatch NZ: Reporting Islam before and after 15/3

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March 31, 2019

"I have a personal memory of meeting Jesse Jackson"

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Moana Maniapoto: The day we met Jesse Jackson – and why...

February 21, 2026

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen

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Marwan Bishara: French presidential elections: It’s déjà vu all over again

April 23, 2022

Palestinian politician, MP and activist Khalida Jarrar

Opinion

‘All I wanted was to bid my daughter a final farewell’...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 30, 2025

Author Phil Kafcaloudes (centre) with Australia Calling colleagues

Opinion

Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement

January 27, 2023

National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall

Opinion

Climate rivalry between secretive autocracy and corrupted democracy

July 16, 2022

Opinion

The man I never knew – a tribute to a PNG...

January 6, 2018

Kabul Airport suicide bombing wounded

Opinion

Who speaks for Afghans? Climate realities with the Taliban takeover

August 28, 2021

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

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

Pacific Media Watch -

February 20, 2023

The whistleblowing soldiers of 1967 admitted their job was not to “fight the enemy” – or “eradicate the terrorists”, as Israeli leaders now term it. It was to kill and terrorise Palestinian civilians

Opinion

Jonathan Cook: How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago

June 15, 2026

Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed

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Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide

Pacific Media Watch -

January 22, 2025

Opinion

How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO...

April 16, 2020

Opinion

Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo

Pacific Media Watch -

February 1, 2020

Sodelpa’s negotiation team chair, Anare Jale, announcing the result of the votes for a coalition government in 2022

Opinion

Richard Naidu: It’s your freedom – so speak up and step...

February 5, 2023

Opinion

Police raids on ABC: The day news theory became reality

Pacific Media Watch -

June 8, 2019

Pro-Palestine protesters set off a blood-red flare outside the US Consulate in the peaceful March for Peace demonstration in Auckland

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Paul Hopkinson: Why NZ’s ‘Free Palestine’ party seeks to put Gaza...

June 23, 2026

Opinion

Joanne Wallis: Australia needs to sing from same song sheet as...

September 7, 2018

Opinion

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

May 3, 2016

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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

Three inmates, who scaled the fence at Baisu Prison, were shot dead

Crime

Dilapidated infrastructure blamed for fatal PNG prison escape attempt

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago

Asia Report

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed...

Healthcare workers protest in Melbourne

Analysis

‘Intolerable pressure’ – inside the Israel lobby campaign to coerce regulators...

Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Dr Sailele Malielegaoi

Democracy

Samoa opposition leader says treason inquiry delayed over lack of evidence

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Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago

Asia Report

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed...

The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World

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Saige England: A tale of power being taken from the people...

"FBI Director Kash Patel sounds super stoked about the chance to become a 21st century J Edgar Hoover"

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: They’re launching a new COINTELPRO for the 21st century

Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya

Arts

NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead...

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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

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago

Asia Report

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed...

The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World

Opinion

Saige England: A tale of power being taken from the people...

"FBI Director Kash Patel sounds super stoked about the chance to become a 21st century J Edgar Hoover"

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: They’re launching a new COINTELPRO for the 21st century

Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya

Arts

NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead...