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David Robie: Florida airport shootings – few basic questions being raised

January 12, 2017

NFIP three generations

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Nine takeaways from the Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter solidarity rally in NZ

Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs Chairman Ratu Viliame Seruvakula and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Eroding trust in Fiji politics – lessons of 2025 and beyond

An UNRWA school in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing

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Rebuilding Gaza begins in the classroom and with dignity

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Mike Treen: Gaza Freedom Flotilla sets sail from Sicily

The Mek family in Jiwaka Province, Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea: ‘My education journey from Jiwaka to UPNG’

April 19, 2023

Showing how it's done in Dili - Wang Yi media conference

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Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers

June 5, 2022

US Vice-President Kamala Harris

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Donald Trump ‘unfit to lead’ – vote for Harris, warns New...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 5, 2024

International Primary School Suva students cleaning up at the My Suva Picnic Park along the Nasese foreshore in the Fiji capital this week

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John Mitchell: Planet Ocean – tides are changing, but halt plastic...

June 12, 2023

"If people believe social media platforms are full of scams and hoaxes, they won’t want to spend time there or do business on them."

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An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers –...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 10, 2025

"I have a personal memory of meeting Jesse Jackson"

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Moana Maniapoto: The day we met Jesse Jackson – and why...

February 21, 2026

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KP Lew: It’s easy to be cynical … harder to fight...

January 31, 2016

Democracy in Fiji

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Fiji 33 years after the first fateful coup – a failed...

May 14, 2020

Opinion

Eva Cox: Feminism has failed and needs a radical rethink

March 8, 2016

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Gary Juffa: Shedding PNG blood for corporate interest – didn’t we...

December 22, 2016

Opinion

Strong leadership needed to drive COP Pacific climate goals, says Greenpeace

November 19, 2017

Opinion

Dan McGarry: Indonesia is slowly, slowly losing Melanesia

February 1, 2017

Damage in Suva after Fiji's third coup in 2000.

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Wadan Narsey: Between a rock and a not so hard place...

November 9, 2021

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

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Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

May 29, 2025

Flashback to 15 March 2019:

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Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks

March 15, 2020

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Gary Juffa: K50m health cutback in PNG – and it’s just...

March 30, 2016

"War is stupid" . . . a message from three generations of New Zealand peace protesters

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Why Vance couldn’t stop the Trump train wreck – an Iranian...

April 13, 2026

In the Eye of the Storm

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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

March 19, 2021

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Rendezvous with the ‘nuclear free’ Vanuatu cover girl after 33 years

August 30, 2016

Opinion

Indria Fernida: Long road to see justice over Munir’s murder

September 8, 2020

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

Pacific Media Watch -

February 16, 2018

Opinion

David Robie: Florida airport shootings – few basic questions being raised

January 12, 2017

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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

POPULAR POSTS

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...

RIMPAC 2026 . . . NZ taking part

Asia Report

Palestine Forum slams NZDF share in military exercises with ‘genocidal’ Israel

An Auckland Writers' Festival vigil with Marika (left) and Kathy

Opinion

Palestine on patrol – how a flag-dress caused a writers’ stir...

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...

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New Caledonia’s special electoral card for Congress and provincial elections

Decolonisation

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll

Israeli soldiers board a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla vessel and hold the crew at gunpoint

Asia Report

Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla...

Israeli military intervene in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea to seize the Global Sumud Fleet

Asia Report

Irish president’s sister, 2 Kiwis among Gaza flotilla activists detained by...

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Asia Report

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

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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 message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out."

Analysis

Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

New Caledonia’s special electoral card for Congress and provincial elections

Decolonisation

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll

Israeli soldiers board a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla vessel and hold the crew at gunpoint

Asia Report

Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla...

Multinational police probe into Fiji officers

Crime

Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade...