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Russel Norman of Greenpeace Aotearoa

Opinion

Russel Norman: Don’t be fooled by NZ greenwashing, the lack of real climate action is dangerous

August 12, 2022

Opinion

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

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters gave the game away

Opinion

NZ and Gaza – Peters appearing to do something, when doing nothing

ABC people get replaced by non-ABC people - and sooner rather than later we have Sinophobic news specials

Opinion

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible time

Opinion

Murray Horton: Root causes of Manus refugee crisis need to be sorted

Opinion

Chinese officials kick out EMTV, foreign media from APEC events –...

November 17, 2018

San Suu Kyi (left) & coup leader Min Aung Hlaing

Opinion

Myanmar coup: Asian response echoes ‘democracy comes with stability’ adage

February 6, 2021

The Media Council of PNG working with Transparency International PNG in 2021.

Opinion

New PNG media policy will lead to government control of news...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 20, 2023

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Donors have opened up their hearts and wallets, but too often...

Pacific Media Centre -

August 10, 2015

Bilingual road signs in English and te reo Māori

Opinion

Slow down Simeon Brown – NZ bilingual traffic signs aren’t an...

May 30, 2023

Timor-Leste indpendence

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East Timor-style referendum possible for Papua, says Jakarta Post editor

Pacific Media Watch -

August 27, 2019

Opinion

Nauru government’s move against press freedom ‘disgraceful’

Pacific Media Watch -

July 10, 2018

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

Opinion

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

March 19, 2025

Opinion

West Papua: Five urgent issues for Indonesia’s president to address

Pacific Media Watch -

February 11, 2020

"Not a war - it's colonialism" declares a placard at the Auckland pro-Palestine rally and march on 16 August 2025

Opinion

Rewarding knowingly illegal conduct – some might say, Israeli terrorism

August 19, 2025

PNG's Oro Governor Gary Juffa

Opinion

Marape government encourages ‘honest debate, dissent’, says Juffa

January 3, 2023

Opinion

Koro’s nightmare – no chance for the people against Winston’s fury

February 24, 2016

Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Hossam Shabat reporting from Gaza

Opinion

With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list

Pacific Media Watch -

April 5, 2025

Brazil's Pelé

Opinion

Tony Fala: Pelé – a tribute from Aotearoa and Oceania

January 5, 2023

Opinion

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

November 20, 2017

Pictures of slain IRGC commanders and the Islamic Republic’s founder

Opinion

Why the Middle East fears a US-Israel attack on Iran

January 23, 2026

Opinion

Murray Horton: Root causes of Manus refugee crisis need to be...

November 14, 2017

NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

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Chris Hipkins’ first question time as PM – will he ‘win...

February 1, 2023

Multichannel approach by ABC

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The ABC’s role in Australia’s Pacific reset – valued and highly...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2022

Opinion

Herman Wainggai: 14 years on, nothing has changed for West Papua

July 17, 2016

Part of the vandalism outside human rights activist John Minto's home

Opinion

Photos of attack on Palestine activist’s property ‘censored’ by Facebook

January 8, 2026

Opinion

Dear editor, why smartphones are ruining our nakamal storytelling

Pacific Media Watch -

May 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

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

Opinion

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

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Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini

Editor's Picks

Gaza media: ‘Why we document history – even if accountability feels...

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

Democracy

Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

Opinion

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

EDITOR'S PICKS

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

Democracy

Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

Opinion

The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Asia Report

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

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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

Opinion

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

Opinion

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Asia Report

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini

Editor's Picks

Gaza media: ‘Why we document history – even if accountability feels...