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"What is happening in America is having a profound impact on journalism (and by extension journalism education) in Australia

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Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever

Pacific Media Watch -

April 30, 2025

Together with their students and graduates, academics are the university

Opinion

NZ universities are not normal Crown institutions – they shouldn’t be ‘Tiriti-led’

Sitiveni Rabuka (left) with Voreqe Bainimarama in 2018.

Opinion

Fiji’s dilemma – how its military has become so deeply mired in politics

Nour Odeh, political analyst and former spokeswoman for the Palestinian National Authority, on Al Jazeera's Inside Story

Opinion

John Minto: Israeli attacks on Al Aqsa mosque – and the failings of media

"We are all learning lessons about the FijiFirst party (FFP)."

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Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still weren’t enough

NZ public interest journalism

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Perceptions over NZ’s public interest journalism project – saint or sinner?

Sri Krishnamurthi -

October 20, 2021

Rev Socratez Yoman

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Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2

July 3, 2020

Opinion

How ISIS extremist media have hijacked religion and language

February 25, 2016

Labour Day in NZ

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Bryan Bruce: Labour Day … eroded by neoliberalism and selfishness

October 26, 2020

PNG's draft national media development policy

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PNG Post-Courier: Let’s talk first on media policy and transparency

Pacific Media Watch -

March 2, 2023

Samoan cabinet ministers at this week's swearing-in ceremony for the new ministers

Opinion

Samoa Observer: For the people or for themselves?

January 19, 2025

Opinion

‘Clean up’ snap election upholds Vanuatu rule of law

January 26, 2016

NZ protest for Palestine

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Golriz Ghahraman: Our stand for the statehood rights of Palestinians

May 18, 2021

"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Opinion

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

May 18, 2026

Opinion

Labour and National leaders contest debate ‘draw’ but sharply different

September 22, 2020

A PNG soldier guarding Bougainville's Panguna mine in 1989

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Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave...

June 7, 2025

Newsroom subject to a NZ police inquiry

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The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 18, 2021

Human rights abuses against Palestinians and the people of West Papua

Opinion

John Minto: The hypocrisy of NZ’s silence in calling out Israeli,...

February 15, 2022

Opinion

Tackling two sides of the Samoa story – it’s more than...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 16, 2016

Chinese Australian author Louisa Lim

Opinion

Stan Grant stands up to racist abuse. Our research shows many...

May 22, 2023

Jacinda Ardern

Opinion

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

June 29, 2020

Community and social justice activist Roger Fowler

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Roger Fowler’s legacy – and the Polynesian Panthers connection

February 24, 2026

Judith Collins

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Bryan Bruce: Judith Collins selection last throw of the dice to...

July 15, 2020

Opinion

Elizabeth Cox: Bring back a revitalised Radio Australia to all rural...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2018

At least 112 Palestinians waiting for food aid have been killed

Opinion

Other nations are applying sanctions and going to court over Gaza...

March 1, 2024

PNG's Catholic Archbishop of Port Moresby Cardinal Sir John Ribat welcomes Pope Francis during his four nation Pacific and Southeast Asian tour

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Pope Francis – a message of peace and real change in...

September 15, 2024

FB Censorship

Opinion

Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence

August 18, 2020

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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

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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...

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

POPULAR POSTS

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters in Palau for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

Democracy

Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024

Asia Report

‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom?

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Climate

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

All smiles for Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Development

Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Secular Jewish socialist and peace activist Tony Greenstein

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The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs...

Fiji's Lautoka City Council says it has started in collaboration with the Fiji Police Force

Civil Society

Who is responsible? Glaring lack of clarity over Fiji operation to...

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Climate

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Climate

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

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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

Secular Jewish socialist and peace activist Tony Greenstein

Opinion

The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs...

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024

Asia Report

‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom?

Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine

Asia Report

PSNA raps NZ govt over ‘haphazard’ foreign policy and mixed messages

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Climate

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...