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"I have a personal memory of meeting Jesse Jackson"

Opinion

Moana Maniapoto: The day we met Jesse Jackson – and why his words still matter

February 21, 2026

The closure of NZ's last current affairs television programme, Sunday, and Newshub

Opinion

Myles Thomas: Newshub, TVNZ job cuts: We now have the worst TV in the Western world

Opinion

Mike Treen: ‘Extend the amnesty’ – facing NZ’s ‘inhuman’ migrant plan

"While New Zealand was formally invited to join the Board -- and chose to decline -- Fiji was not invited at all"

Opinion

Troops without a seat – the Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ and Fiji

It is more likely that Israel launched its attack to stop US and Iranian negotiators from meeting

Opinion

A war on diplomacy itself – Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran

Opinion

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

Pacific Media Watch -

April 17, 2018

Palestinians clear rubble to search for survivors in a Gaza house

Opinion

Gaza ‘ceasefire’ simply means that Israel can do whatever it wants....

November 8, 2025

James Marape

Opinion

Keith Jackson: Marape’s commitment to PNG a checklist for judging him

June 4, 2019

Papua Games venues

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The Jakarta Post: Delay the dangerous Papua Games over covid risks

Pacific Media Watch -

August 1, 2021

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown (left) fronting a media conference

Opinion

Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood

Pacific Media Watch -

January 31, 2023

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Opinion

US worried about losing out in South Pacific to Chinese influence

February 6, 2022

The PNG flag being raised for the first time as an independent nation on 16 September 2023

Opinion

PNG Post-Courier: Our democracy, our Melanesian way

September 16, 2023

Starved for Peace - Mr Fish

Opinion

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

July 2, 2025

Oscar Temaru

Opinion

The judgment of Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru – a neocolonial sense of...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 2, 2020

Papuan Governor, Lukas Enembe

Opinion

Why Governor Lukas Enembe is inviting Russia’s Putin to Papua

March 31, 2022

Columnist and Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa John Minto

Opinion

John Minto: The first casualty of war is truth – the...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 6, 2024

Artificial intelligence

Opinion

Will AI decide one day humans are messing up the world...

May 21, 2019

Farid Ahmed, a survivor of the Christchurch mosque attacks

Opinion

Christchurch massacre: Behind the scenes of meeting the survivors

March 15, 2024

Under international law -- if anyone still pays attention to such things -- the Iranians have a strong case

Opinion

Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...

April 27, 2026

Opinion

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

Pacific Media Centre -

April 23, 2018

Opinion

Gallery: Peace campaigners and nuclear-free advocates celebrate Peacemonger

December 16, 2022

PNG Communications Technology Minister Tmothy Masiu

Opinion

A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook

July 20, 2024

Press freedom Index

Opinion

Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom

April 23, 2020

Opinion

Newspapers claim neutrality along with right to be partisan, says Fiji...

February 14, 2016

Philippines academic freedom

Opinion

Don’t touch academic freedom – why the Philippine military action is...

February 8, 2021

Jacinda Ardern cartoon

Opinion

NZ election 2020: Jacinda Ardern promised transformation — instead, the times...

October 14, 2020

Palestinians perform prayer next to the rubble of a mosque that was destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces during the Gaza genocide

Opinion

Trump’s ‘annexation ban’ is a ploy to push Israeli normalisation

October 30, 2025

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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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Fiji police on duty

Crime

‘Sodomised’ and ‘tortured’ – family of Fijian man allegedly beaten by...

Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel

Culture

Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

World Cup BDS graphic

Opinion

Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’...

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

Civil Society

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

EDITOR'S PICKS

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

Civil Society

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Asia Report

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

World Cup BDS graphic

Opinion

Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’...

Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel

Culture

Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Opinion

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

Opinion

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

Civil Society

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Asia Report

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

World Cup BDS graphic

Opinion

Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’...

Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel

Culture

Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God