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The Iran fiasco is only the latest in a host of examples revealing how to defeat US President Donald Trump

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Robert Reich: Lessons on how to defeat Donald Trump every time

April 10, 2026

Stark choices confronting Aotearoa New Zealand

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NZ election 2023: Dear NZ, our foundations are in ruin and there’s no political courage for tomorrow

Jai Ram Reddy (right) and Mahendra Chaudhry at a meeting

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Brij Lal’s tribute to Jai Ram Reddy – ‘a true son of Fiji’

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Critics question motives behind O’Neill takeover on Bougainville affairs

Sydney journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory

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Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists

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To conserve West Papua, start with land rights and forget past...

October 10, 2018

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

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May 22, 2017

Under the old regime, press barons, from William Randolph Hearst to Rupert Murdoch, at least pretended they were committed to truth-telling journalism

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Murdoch to Musk: how global media power has shifted from the...

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September 20, 2024

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Vanuatu airport crisis: Daily Post hits back on safety

January 30, 2016

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

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Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear

January 23, 2025

Sydney journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory

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Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists

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August 27, 2025

South Vietnamese torture "tiger cages" against the Viet Cong at the War Remnants Museum on Ho Chi Minh City

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Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s...

April 19, 2025

Coronavirus

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Bryan Bruce: Remember, we can’t have any lifestyle – if we...

October 23, 2020

A My Lai massacre display in the Vietnam War Remnants Museum

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The fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was...

April 21, 2025

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Gary Juffa: Why I was not on the PNG electoral roll...

July 10, 2017

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Scott Waide: Our country, Papua New Guinea, is being taken away...

November 16, 2020

West Papua for MSG 210621

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West Papua unhappy over never-ending MSG membership tragedies

June 21, 2021

According to Stats NZ, around 155,000 households feel their incomes aren’t sufficient to meet everyday basic needs

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NZ’s housing market drives inequality – why not just tax houses...

July 3, 2023

Celebrating the launch of USP's SCORI on 22May23

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Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea...

May 29, 2023

The village on Serua Island, Fiji

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Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood...

January 10, 2023

President-elect Donald Trump

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

November 9, 2024

Volunteer rescuers from Auckland's Muriwai lifeguard squad

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Auckland floods a future sign – city needs stormwater systems fit...

January 29, 2023

PNG's Oro Governor Gary Juffa

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

January 3, 2023

Professor Pal Ahluwalia

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Covid, culture and USP’s fight to save academic freedom

June 15, 2020

The campsite on the Long March at Mildura, Victoria

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Peter Lusk: Reflections on my mahi with peace researcher Owen Wilkes

Pacific Media Watch -

February 14, 2023

Vanuatu PM Ishmael Kalsakau

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Climate crisis greatest threat to Pacific regional security, says Vanuatu PM

June 7, 2023

Assassinated Kanak leader Éloi Machoro

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Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle

May 24, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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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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.

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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

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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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Trump went to war against Iran and got a deal far...

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Despite the presence of many well-known pro-Palestinian activists, there was no security in the room

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Gaza freedom flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby (right) being welcomed home at Auckland International Airport on Sunday

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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

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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

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The opening of the 2026 session of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (C-24) meeting

Decolonisation

Renewed UN calls for decolonisation action on New Caledonia, French Polynesia,...

Despite the presence of many well-known pro-Palestinian activists, there was no security in the room

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‘You’re a liar! You’re a liar!’ NZ foreign minister Peters insults...

Gaza freedom flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby (right) being welcomed home at Auckland International Airport on Sunday

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Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General

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Vanuatu’s Anna Naupa becomes first woman to lead MSG Secretariat