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Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns

September 13, 2021

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Janet Tupou: Speaking life into your goals and seeing dreams come true

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Media rights groups protest against Timor’s draft defamation law

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

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

An Australian soldier on patrol in Honiara

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Solomon Islands: China mouthpiece blames Australia for ‘fomenting riots’

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Sasya Wreksono: We mourn, reflect and face up to NZ’s ‘fragment...

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March 17, 2019

Meisoga

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Scott Waide: Playwright Andrew Kuliniasi unleashes another creative bomb – on...

February 2, 2021

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Meet the incredible women protecting their communities in disaster zones

March 8, 2016

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Plea to Jokowi: Free all Maluku and West Papuan political prisoners

September 20, 2018

Papua Games venues

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

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August 1, 2021

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Willie Jackson: What to do about Radio New Zealand?

March 31, 2016

Veteran Tahitian independence leader Oscar Temaru with his wife Marie at the UN

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France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia

October 5, 2023

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Hostile climates and journalism challenges

January 6, 2016

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With a mandate to govern NZ alone, Labour must now decide...

October 21, 2020

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Martyn Bradbury: Still awaiting the birth of a real Fourth Estate

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May 18, 2018

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Nauru government’s move against press freedom ‘disgraceful’

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July 10, 2018

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

April 27, 2020

The Our Action Station petition plea over NZ media coverage of the Israeli war in Palestine

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Open letter to TVNZ – stop the bias, report fairly on...

September 8, 2024

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Rights groups condemn ‘cowardly censorship’ bid over Al Jazeera

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June 24, 2017

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Indonesia beefing up disputed Papua border force in bid for minerals

June 29, 2018

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Despite taking lead on global stage, Fiji pays price for climate...

February 24, 2016

Farid Ahmed, a survivor of the Christchurch mosque attacks

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Christchurch massacre: Behind the scenes of meeting the survivors

March 15, 2024

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Obama’s legacy is bittersweet – and its chance of survival hangs...

January 22, 2017

Timor-Leste news

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‘We can’t keep working like this’ – a journalist’s plea to...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 26, 2020

Protesters in a solidarity rally for Palestine

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John Minto: Why is mainstream media in NZ so blatantly ignoring...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 24, 2024

Russel Norman of Greenpeace Aotearoa

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Russel Norman: Don’t be fooled by NZ greenwashing, the lack of...

August 12, 2022

Iranians hold posters of late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head Hossein Salami (left), and late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri (right), who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent days

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Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you...

June 18, 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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China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

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

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Mark Naglazas: Blaming immigrants when we need to look inside for...

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...

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The lack of proportionality is the key

Asia Report

They’re saying the attack on Iran was proportional – here are...

China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

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

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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

China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

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

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