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"Nameless, faceless Palestinians" - a NZ newspaper editorial comment: Refaat Alareer

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Open letter: On NZ news media and ‘faceless, nameless’ Palestinians

Pacific Media Watch -

April 13, 2024

Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right

Opinion

Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact

Students protest against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza

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Why is NZ being so obstinate over its weak position on Gaza and Palestine?

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Indonesian student Afi’s blog items inspirational – but her FB ‘frozen’

Fiji - freedom of the press

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Ajay Bhai Amrit: Freedom of the press – Fiji’s ranking a national shame

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NZ aid workers’ open letter condemns broadcaster for Pacific ‘leeches’ attack

Pacific Media Watch -

September 21, 2018

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Time for US, Australia to change policy on West Papua or...

January 24, 2019

"By helping each other we save each other."

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Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...

November 14, 2025

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10 reasons why tourists must visit Iran

October 19, 2019

Shredding The Washington Post

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Committee to Protect Journalists: The First Amendment is in peril

Pacific Media Watch -

February 5, 2026

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Hostile climates and journalism challenges

January 6, 2016

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Dame Susan Devoy: We have a choice on how our media...

May 3, 2016

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Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka: Don’t be bullied, Indonesia is not Melanesia

May 28, 2016

Kiribati MP Ruth Cross Kwansing

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NZ-Kiribati fallout: A ‘Pacific way’ perspective on the Peters spat

January 31, 2025

Indonesian military helicopters firing indiscriminately at civilian villages

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Indonesia: Civilian supremacy, or civilian inferiority?

February 9, 2016

Hīkoi mō te Tiriti

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NZ’s Hīkoi challenging controversial draft bill ‘redefines activism’, says Herald

Pacific Media Watch -

November 14, 2024

Police bail curfew check

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Murray Horton: The day the police came looking for a swifty...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2022

Sacked Fiji Bureau of Statistics Kemueli Naiqama

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Richard Naidu: The Fawlty Towers government – everything they touch...

September 18, 2021

Covid-19 testing centre in Sydney

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NZ has managed to dodge the covid-19 bullet, again. Here’s why

June 30, 2021

Explosions have been reported across Tehran after the Israeli air force conducted air strikes

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Editor calls for NZ to immediately expel Israeli envoy for unprovoked...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 13, 2025

No more kings?

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Eugene Doyle: Venezuela and Trump’s war to save the Ancien Régime

November 4, 2025

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Kiwis on board Freedom Flotilla in bid to break illegal Gaza...

July 22, 2018

"Illegal Israeli settlements are slowly circling and strangling Palestinian towns

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Beyond Gaza, Israel pushes to occupy more of the West Bank

February 15, 2026

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Open letter from MP for Wabag: EMTV move ‘dictatorship before our...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 25, 2018

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Timor-Leste turns 20: Colonial past feeds problems of neocolonial present

Pacific Media Watch -

August 30, 2019

Free speech montage

Opinion

Facing up to anti-mandate protesters at Parliament – the brutal reality

February 24, 2022

A PNG Post-Courier newsboy on the streets in Port Moresby

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Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 16, 2023

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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"

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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

Niue's Dalton Tagelagi

Democracy

Close vote sees Niue’s Dalton Tagelagi back in as prime minister

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Asia Report

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

Chinese embassy staff in Nauru with government officials hosted a New Year Candy Parade on 2 January 2026

Asia Report

Nauru orders public servants, govt bodies to follow ‘One China’ policy

Papua's Tom Beanal

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Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

EDITOR'S PICKS

A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home

Asia Report

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu

Crime

Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade...

Australian Gaza flotilla activist Zack Schofield

Asia Report

‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture

$"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades$

Opinion

Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...

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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

A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home

Asia Report

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu

Crime

Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade...

Australian Gaza flotilla activist Zack Schofield

Asia Report

‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture

$"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades$

Opinion

Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...