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The Encampments vs October 8 – a battle of narratives on Palestine plays out in cinema

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May 10, 2025

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Sharon Bhagwan Rolls: Feminists face shrinking spaces at UN

Vietnam today is united and free and millions of ordinary people have achieved security, health, education and prosperity

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50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to Trump

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

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 genocide at centre of politics

A "No more complicity with war crimes" banner at a "Stop Wars" march at Devonport

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Paying the price for US-Israeli wars – and NZ’s shameful stance...

June 9, 2026

Evelyn Kunda at her safe house

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Paul Wolffram: Resisting sorcery violence in PNG from the ‘grasruts’

August 17, 2022

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Post-coup Rabuka crackdown as seen from Fiji Times editor’s ‘hot seat’

Shailendra Singh -

April 23, 2017

Papuan students protest over the 1962 Rome Agreement at one of last Saturday's many demonstrations

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West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement

October 5, 2023

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A media tribute to Fiji’s late former PM Laisenia Qarase

April 27, 2020

Opinion

Open letter to Nanaia Mahuta: Do the right thing over Palestine...

May 15, 2022

Opinion

Barry Coates: PACER Plus – how the Pacific Way is being...

April 21, 2017

Under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, states must take positive steps to prevent genocide. The New Zealand government appears to be failing in this obligation

Opinion

John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel

August 14, 2025

Opinion

Mike Treen: Gaza Freedom Flotilla sets sail from Sicily

July 23, 2018

Opinion

A broken body and mind, but not a shattered spirit

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February 25, 2020

Al Jazeera on Papua

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West Papua’s road to ‘independence’, following the Timorese lead?

August 24, 2019

Celebrated Middle East expert and journalist Chris Hedges . . . out, replaced by a former IDF colonel now ambassador by Australia's National Press Club?

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Australia’s National Press Club blocks Hedges’ Gaza media talk, lines up...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 7, 2025

China's BeiDou communications satellite

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Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is more about a looming new...

July 28, 2025

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

1976 Soweto protest

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Trevor Richards: How about an apology from NZ Rugby?

September 1, 2021

The planned RNZ/TVNZ merger

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Myles Thomas: Debate over public media merger is the proof we...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 24, 2023

Opinion

Sano Malifa: Criminal libel and PM Tuilaepa’s ‘gift’ from American Samoa

Pacific Media Watch -

January 8, 2018

Despite saying multiple times that she and Biden “have been working around the clock” for a ceasefire in Gaza, the truth is that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have not secured a ceasefire simply because they do not want one

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Harris will not be a president for marginalised people – in...

November 5, 2024

Fiji Sun headline 22032022

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History repeats in Fiji?: Police chief warns of election ‘instability’

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March 22, 2022

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Indonesian court convicts mining protester over ‘communist’ symbol

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January 26, 2018

Opinion

Farewell to a pioneer – a tribute from the Vanuatu Daily...

December 19, 2015

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Samoa’s Ombudsman on complaints over Observer story

Pacific Media Watch -

June 27, 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

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The March for Peace in Auckland, New Zealand, on June 20

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Iranian American international affairs professor Vali Nasr

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People queue to vote in Bougainville’s independence referendum

Bougainville

PNG’s ruling party supports 15-year transition period for Bougainville

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Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh who nationalised his country's oil

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Fiji and Israel relations

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Jale Moala: Why is the UN credible when Fiji agrees but...

Former journalist and media publisher Jo Nata, spent 24 years in jail for his role in the 2000 Fiji coup

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

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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

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

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Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh who nationalised his country's oil

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Fiji and Israel relations

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Jale Moala: Why is the UN credible when Fiji agrees but...

Former journalist and media publisher Jo Nata, spent 24 years in jail for his role in the 2000 Fiji coup

Culture

Fiji will remain unstable while Indigenous people are economically sidelined, says...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

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Lim Tean: Marco Rubio embarrasses himself – and America – over...