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Tess Newton Cain: How to turn democracy into autocracy

February 17, 2016

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Kasun Ubayasiri: How will ruthless billionaire posturing by Rupert and Zuckerberg help robust journalism?

Recovering the bodies of the 14 first responders from the shallow graves where they were executed by Israeli forces in Rafah, southern Gaza

Opinion

Red Crescent Palestinians massacre: Global rule of law masquerade is over

Opinion

WJEC16: ‘That day I saw the power of media, and how it can be tragic’

Opinion

End sexism and ‘invisibility’ of women in the media

Fiji's Parliament in Suva

Opinion

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

August 13, 2022

Opinion

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

Pacific Media Watch -

May 18, 2018

Matu Tangi Matua Reid

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Martyn Bradbury: A sorrowful day for my beautiful city – Matu...

July 20, 2023

Opinion

Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance

January 9, 2016

Philippines academic freedom

Opinion

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

February 8, 2021

Opinion

Opponents scramble to avoid New Caledonia’s third referendum

October 8, 2020

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on a hospital visit in January

Opinion

NZ deserves far more respect for keeping covid deaths so low

February 4, 2022

Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier

Opinion

Gavin Ellis: NZ government media teams that breach the law

Pacific Media Watch -

October 6, 2022

Gordon Campbell's Scoop column on the Pope and the Israeli Institute

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Absurd attack on free speech by Israel Institute over social media...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 10, 2025

Secular Jewish socialist and peace activist Tony Greenstein

Opinion

The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs...

September 3, 2026

Clarifications or not, PNG Prime Minister James Marape has left a lingering impression that Papua New Guinea’s foreign policy is for sale

Opinion

PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua

Pacific Media Watch -

September 14, 2023

Opinion

Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’

January 28, 2018

A mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran

Opinion

165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes...

March 8, 2026

Part of the "inclusiveness" wall at Marshall Islands High School

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Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 16, 2025

The New Zealand government and the mainstream media have gone ballistic

Opinion

Will New Zealand ‘invade’ the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously

February 13, 2025

Protesters in Auckland call for a permanent end to the war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and for justice

Opinion

New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable

March 18, 2025

MAF missionary plane

Opinion

Confusion reigns over real reasons for burning of missionary plane in...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 16, 2021

Opinion

To conserve West Papua, start with land rights and forget past...

October 10, 2018

Tino Rangatiratanga flag

Opinion

Dominic O’Sullivan: The role of Te Tiriti in boosting local government

October 15, 2022

Opinion

Vanuatu Daily Post: A call to action for endangered Pacific media...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 16, 2018

Opinion

How to move beyond simplistic debates that demonise Islam

March 22, 2019

Part of the full page advertisement published by the Christchurch Star

Opinion

Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 11, 2024

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Opinion

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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...

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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

Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka

Opinion

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...

Another four years of far-right rule would pose an immediate threat to Palestinian communities and their rights inside Israel

Opinion

Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Opinion

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

EDITOR'S PICKS

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

Decolonisation

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

Culture

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Opinion

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

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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

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

Decolonisation

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

Culture

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Opinion

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...