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Israeli airstrikes bomb Gaza

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Gaza blockade: Hamas’s tragic attack a response to longterm and escalating, immediate violence

October 9, 2023

Biden supporter celebrations

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American columnist apologises to NZ for ‘scary’ Trump leadership

Israel's new extreme rightwing government triggers protests

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John Minto: Israel’s new leadership demands NZ reassess its Middle East policy

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Mark Naglazas: Blaming immigrants when we need to look inside for our heart of darkness

Farid Ahmed, a survivor of the Christchurch mosque attacks

Opinion

Christchurch massacre: Behind the scenes of meeting the survivors

USP's Laucala campus in Suva

Opinion

FijiFirst election candidates lineup – a bit light on educational credits

November 3, 2022

Under international law -- if anyone still pays attention to such things -- the Iranians have a strong case

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Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...

April 27, 2026

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

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Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...

July 8, 2026

French Senator Claude Malhuret

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War on Iran: The French senator who said what everybody was...

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March 29, 2026

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay praised, pilloried, ignored by Australia

October 13, 2026

Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao

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Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

September 12, 2026

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Jale Moala: Fiji’s longest day – George Speight and the march...

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May 19, 2018

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

Opinion

After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

May 4, 2026

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

November 16, 2020

Maata Wharehoka . . . Parihaka Matriarch

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Parihaka’s matriarch, champion of tikanga and peace advocate Maata Wharehoka dies...

February 25, 2025

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Police raids on ABC: The day news theory became reality

Pacific Media Watch -

June 8, 2019

In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free

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John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

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July 5, 2026

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Marshall Islands v Big Nuclear – will Pacific people get the...

March 19, 2016

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Bryan Bruce: Why I have run out of words – and...

June 9, 2020

You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels

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Caitlin Johnstone: All it takes is one crack in the lie...

August 28, 2026

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025

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Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

Pacific Media Watch -

September 12, 2026

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Tribute to a NZ media mentor: ‘How Yasmine Ryan taught me...

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December 4, 2017

Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

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Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green...

July 31, 2026

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Daily Post: No pardons for Vanuatu politicians – no one is...

March 7, 2019

Justice for Palestine did a "guerilla projection" of the Palestinian flag on Te Papa

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Memo MFAT, media and Mayor Foster, time to outgrow your Jewish...

May 18, 2022

"If the Samoan Prime Minister is truly concerned about the vision of journalists, he need only look at those closest to him"

Opinion

Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise

Pacific Media Watch -

November 18, 2025

A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide

Opinion

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

October 15, 2026

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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

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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

POPULAR POSTS

Masked Kumul 23 elite police tactical force members

Crime

Eight dead in September violence at Papua New Guinea’s troubled Porgera

The MV Awka

Pacific Report

Stranded Solomon Islands ferry passengers adrift at sea brought on shore

Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate

Opinion

Rawiri shines at Kingmaker debate as Māori voters set to rock...

Fiji Times chair Kirit Prabhudas Patel

Democracy

Fiji Times reaffirms commitment to truth, fairness and accountability

EDITOR'S PICKS

Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate

Opinion

Rawiri shines at Kingmaker debate as Māori voters set to rock...

A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide

Opinion

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

Delphina Soti. the general manager of Vinnies Tāmaki Makaurau

Civil Society

‘Poor becoming poorer’ – South Auckland foodbanks warn poverty is deepening...

No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel

Opinion

Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Opinion

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

A focus on information-sharing between countries, which, on Fiji's part, requires a reform programme "to address fragmentation"

China

NZSIS to support Fiji intelligence review amid foreign ‘interference’ claims

Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate

Opinion

Rawiri shines at Kingmaker debate as Māori voters set to rock...

A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide

Opinion

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

Delphina Soti. the general manager of Vinnies Tāmaki Makaurau

Civil Society

‘Poor becoming poorer’ – South Auckland foodbanks warn poverty is deepening...