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Opinion

John Pilger: Another Hiroshima is coming — unless we stop it now

August 5, 2020

"The Palestinian genocide victims were of scant concern at the Knesset spectacle"

Opinion

What Trump said and didn’t say in obscene genocide tribute in Knesset

University of Papua New Guinea students protest against the US-PNG defence pact

Opinion

Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific

Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum

Opinion

Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either

Opinion

Biman Prasad: COP23 presidency — facing the gravity of the task for Fiji

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay

Opinion

Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality

Pacific Media Watch -

July 23, 2023

Opinion

Ben Bohane: A tribute to the ‘grand old man’ of the...

November 16, 2018

Arrested Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte

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Rodrigo Duterte, how the powerful turned powerless – by a target

March 13, 2025

A mourner holds up a picture of one of the victims of the US-Israeli attack on Iran at Minab

Opinion

Alternative Jewish Voices: Stop this Iran catastrophe!

March 4, 2026

Vanuatu PM Ishmael Kalsakau

Opinion

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

June 7, 2023

Opinion

#COP21: Drama over ‘most important global agreement in history’

December 15, 2015

A Sydney protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran

Opinion

Epstein cabal play games with human lives in Iran while grasping...

March 26, 2026

New Zealand protesters carry symbolic "bodies" of Palestinian journalists slaughtered by the Israeli military

Opinion

Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?

August 24, 2025

COP26 Glasgow

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COP26: Time for New Zealand to show regional leadership on climate...

October 30, 2021

The worst things about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

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Caitlin Johnstone: US presidential races hide the criminality of the Empire

July 27, 2024

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Daily Digest: Tanna filmmakers respond to exploitation claims

Pacific Media Watch -

January 29, 2017

Jacinda Ardern and Christopher Luxon

Opinion

Gordon Campbell: On gendered perceptions in Aotearoa politics

April 18, 2022

Dark Times Academy's Mandy Henk speaking at the Asia Pacific Media Network event

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How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 26, 2025

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Evening Report’s Selwyn Manning talks to David Robie on Rainbow Warrior

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January 13, 2016

Opinion

Colin Peacock: New era heralded in broadcasting – or more of...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 13, 2018

What lies ahead at Baku?

Opinion

COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed

November 10, 2024

Opinion

Crispin Maslog: A love-hate relationship with President Duterte

September 20, 2016

ABC organiser Murray Horton

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Murray Horton: Get tough on Israel – we’ve done it before...

April 23, 2024

Opinion

Herzog backlash crushes Albo’s ‘social cohesion’ – thousands protest nationwide

February 9, 2026

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

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

Opinion

Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

September 17, 2024

Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe

Opinion

Yamin Kogoya: Arrest of Papuan governor Enembe condemned as illegal Jakarta...

January 13, 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

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...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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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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The International Court of Justice in The Hague

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Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on...

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

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The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

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Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...

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Te Tinihanga o Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti

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NZ tribunal finds Treaty reforms breach Te Tiriti principles, prejudice Māori,...

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

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Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

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Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

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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

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Te Tinihanga o Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti

Decolonisation

NZ tribunal finds Treaty reforms breach Te Tiriti principles, prejudice Māori,...

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

Editor's Picks

Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

Climate

The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

Opinion

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...