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Covid alert - there were good things too

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Nick Rockel: Memories of the two-year covid safety struggle – it was worth it

March 30, 2022

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Gary Juffa: Why these PNG elections are taking us towards dictatorship

A hikoi (march) to deliver a petition

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Decolonising the news: 4 fundamental questions media can ask when covering stories about Māori

A Palestinian cartoon . . . media truth to power

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Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings

"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

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Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

Covid alert - there were good things too

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Nick Rockel: Memories of the two-year covid safety struggle –...

March 30, 2022

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Dr Schram absconds on bail – claims PNG prosecution is ‘political’

May 28, 2018

Filipino media "influencers" complicit in Israeli propaganda programme

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How two Filipino ‘journalists’ took part in Israeli whitewashing of genocide

August 31, 2025

Fiji drug haul 15 Jan 2024

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The Fiji Times: Drug bust a chilling wake-up call for Fiji

January 15, 2024

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden

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As Australia signs up for nuclear subs, NZ faces hard decisions...

March 18, 2023

Need work

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Bryan Bruce: Unemployment isn’t working – we need universal job creation

August 20, 2020

PNG Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare's state funeral in 2021

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The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea...

January 3, 2022

A demonstrationon 29 August 2022 by families and village supporters of the four Papuan victims of murder and mutilation at Timika

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West Papua atrocity – a warning to Jakarta for impartial investigation

September 5, 2022

New Zealand protesters outside the headquarters of Television New Zealand

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Financial Times: The West’s shameful silence on Gaza – do...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 7, 2025

Philippines academic freedom

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

February 8, 2021

New Zealand surgical team leader in Vietnam Dr Peter Eccles-Smith

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How museums can remember war while honouring civilian trauma and resistance

April 1, 2026

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Dear PM: ‘It breaks my heart that a sense of belonging...

March 23, 2019

Justice for West Papua

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Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’

August 15, 2022

President-elect Donald Trump

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US elections featuring ‘racism, sexism’ pose challenges for Global South

November 9, 2024

Opinion

Chris Trotter: Catastrophic loss of trust over Canberra’s Manus provocation

November 20, 2017

Another sacred day for West Papua

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Happy West Papua Day – and the brutal truth about where...

December 1, 2022

When Israelis are kidnapped they are called hostages

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Saige England: Why I have spent a decade proudly standing with...

August 20, 2025

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‘NZ is waking up to our … spectrum of colours’, says...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

May 3, 2019

Palestinian children celebrate news of the Gaza ceasefire

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After Gaza ceasefire, ‘massive political pressure’ needed to prevent Israel from...

October 13, 2025

Alleged Asian pirates intercepted and arrested by a PNG Navy boat in 2020

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PNG Post-Courier: Time to consider piracy as a serious issue

Pacific Media Watch -

September 29, 2021

Malaysia Lockdown Crop

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Malaysia’s media crackdowns driven by a shaky, sensitive government

Pacific Media Watch -

July 15, 2020

Opinion

Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling

October 18, 2019

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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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Activist Mike Smith

Climate

‘Affront to democracy’ – NZ law change halts landmark climate crisis...

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

Opinion

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

A free speech forum at Lingkaran Abepura in Jayapura last Monday

Asia Report

Papuan women ‘living in fear’ condemn military violence

A drone view of the Marshalls Energy Company's main power plant in Majuro

Analysis

Majuro reels from huge power rate increase, as govt steps up...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Opinion

New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm...

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media

Analysis

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza...

"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland

Analysis

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...

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

Analysis

Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what...

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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

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Opinion

New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm...

Fiji media workers of the Fijian Media Association celebrate a belated World Press Freedom Day in the capital Suva

Democracy

Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn...

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media

Analysis

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza...

"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland

Analysis

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...