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"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

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‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement

March 19, 2025

Pakeha Privilege

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James Tapp: Confronting Pākehā Privilege as a white male student

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It’s all about trust – and why I trust Jacinda over the coronavirus action

Evening Report editor Selwyn Manning

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When all the world’s failings end in Gaza – Selwyn Manning, Paul Buchanan assess the crisis

Samoa Observer editorial

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Samoa Observer: For Tuila’epa, what follows defeat?

Māori Television's Te Ao Māori News eyes on the Parliament occupation February 2022

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Parliament protest: What the cameras in the crowd witnessed

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March 9, 2022

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The world climate leaders’ summit you didn’t hear about

July 16, 2017

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Dan McGarry: Freedom of speech comes with responsibility

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March 18, 2016

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President Duterte’s war on crime: A nuclear explosion of violence

July 11, 2016

Facebook Ban

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Scott Waide: Why banning Facebook in PNG is a really bad...

May 17, 2019

Rallies spread around the world in support of Occupied Palestine's cause for freedom

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Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for...

October 15, 2023

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa

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Alexandra Wake: Students on frontline for media truth in a fact-less...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 3, 2019

Once you recognise this manipulated media environment

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Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right

Pacific Media Watch -

February 27, 2025

Papuan armed struggle

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Yamin Kogoya: Reckless Jakarta is turning West Papuans into ‘terrorists’ to...

May 4, 2021

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

February 14, 2016

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Polar bear mojo for Greenpeace captain’s environmental thriller

April 9, 2016

While Māori are guaranteed representation through the Māori electoral roll at the national level . . .

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Gerard Otto: Low turnout and rates pressure drive down Māori wards...

October 12, 2025

James Marape

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Scott Waide: Open letter to PM James Marape: Treat our people fairly

January 2, 2021

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Albert Schram: My wrongful dismissal and malicious prosecution – a warning

May 29, 2018

Evelyn Kunda at her safe house

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

August 17, 2022

Hitler ignored the advice of his generals and attacked in every direction

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Paul Buchanan: Trump 2.0 and the limits of over-reach

February 17, 2025

Indonesian military helicopters firing indiscriminately at civilian villages

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Yamin Kogoya: 60 years ago, Indonesia invaded West Papua with guns....

December 6, 2021

A warning on mass starvation in Gaza

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Israel waging ‘horror show’ starvation campaign in Gaza, says UN chief

July 24, 2025

Mango dawn

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Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to...

September 13, 2021

Fijian Elections Office staff busy at the National Results Centre

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The Fiji Times: Kingmakers and the big post-election reveal!

December 19, 2022

A Sydney protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran

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Epstein cabal play games with human lives in Iran while grasping...

March 26, 2026

Arrested Chinese ships

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Michael Field: Murky background to Vanuatu’s Chinese fishing boat arrests

January 27, 2021

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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

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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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Israeli Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman

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Gaza flotilla victim blaming – time to expel Israel’s ambassador

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown

Civil Society

New Zealand First’s campaign to scrap city’s independent Māori Board just...

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

Analysis

The new Middle East: How the Old Order died and what...

Joseph Auga Matamata aka Viliamu Samu in court

Crime

Hawke’s Bay enslaver and human trafficker Joseph Matamata granted parole

EDITOR'S PICKS

The leftwing heart of the Labour Party were upset by Starmer's support for Israel.

Analysis

Palestine Action ‘terror’ sentencing, Starmer resignation but Labour change unlikely over...

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...

Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .

Bougainville

Bougainville Copper Limited takes stock after Panguna licence setback

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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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

The leftwing heart of the Labour Party were upset by Starmer's support for Israel.

Analysis

Palestine Action ‘terror’ sentencing, Starmer resignation but Labour change unlikely over...

Four days before the Kanaky New Caledonia provincial elections, the pro-independence Kanak Workers and Exploited Workers' Union (USTKE) has announced its voting preferences in all three provinces

Elections

Alcohol sales banned in New Caledonia as provincial election approaches

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

Opinion

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

Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .

Bougainville

Bougainville Copper Limited takes stock after Panguna licence setback