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Willie Jackson, former broadcaster and Labour's Broadcasting and Media Minister in the current government

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NZ election 2023: How a better funding model can help media strengthen social cohesion

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October 3, 2023

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Twelve Nobel Prize winners, a Beatle, and the Pope can’t all be wrong

Rappler fights on

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Stand with Rappler, defend press freedom in Philippines

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Democracy Now! and the Bernie Sanders US revolution

West Papua protest

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West Papua riots: Why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken promises

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How corporations make money out of ‘feel-good’ feminism

March 8, 2020

The Mek family in Jiwaka Province, Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea: ‘My education journey from Jiwaka to UPNG’

April 19, 2023

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Bougainville to Rio Tinto: ‘Our grandmothers said no, land is life...

July 5, 2016

Pakeha Privilege

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James Tapp: Confronting Pākehā Privilege as a white male student

May 30, 2020

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KP Lew: It’s easy to be cynical … harder to fight...

January 31, 2016

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Vanuatu police chief court case, finance ‘grey list’ pose challenges

February 3, 2017

Donald Trump

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With re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in...

November 6, 2020

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Graham Davis: It’s our flag, not theirs – defend it, Fiji

October 13, 2020

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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How Ardern’s coronavirus kindness theme can become contagious

March 29, 2020

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Four lessons we must take away from the Christchurch terror attack

March 21, 2019

Indonesian security forces block Indigenous West Papuans protesting in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta against land seizures

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Prabowo takes power as Indonesian military set up new battalions – what...

October 25, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s press conference on the first day of the Iran ceasefire on 8 April 2026

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Ending Israel’s war on peace – Iran’s 10-point proposal is serious

April 11, 2026

Violence as a permanent and massive aspect of life can only be removed when its source is removed

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Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all...

August 5, 2024

Kabul Airport suicide bombing wounded

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Who speaks for Afghans? Climate realities with the Taliban takeover

August 28, 2021

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A weeping mum from PNG and her long walk for a...

February 7, 2019

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

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

January 23, 2025

Counting at the Fijian Elections Office

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Fiji elections: Bainimarama on track to win in spite of poll’s...

December 15, 2022

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Mackenzie Smith: Indonesia’s Pacific neglect highlights NZ media problem

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March 21, 2018

How the New Zealand Herald featured the assassination attempt on former President Donald

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Elevation, colour – and the American flag. Here’s what makes Evan...

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July 15, 2024

Alleged Asian pirates intercepted and arrested by a PNG Navy boat in 2020

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PNG Post-Courier: Time to consider piracy as a serious issue

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September 29, 2021

A poster highlighting the New Zealand government's role in the Western complicity over the Gaza genocide

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Gaza genocide – how many UN findings will the West ignore?

July 4, 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

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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.”

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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

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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...

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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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Leading civil society groups have warned that a rushed constitutional process could amount to a "self-coup"

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Fiji civil society warns about govt rushing constitutional change

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‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should...

Fiji Health Minister Dr Atonio Lalabalavu's HIV warning

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Fiji declares HIV emergency as 1 in 60 Fijian adults live...

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Indonesia's President Prabowo speaking dressed in a keffiyeh

Asia Report

Prabowo’s tears and cries of ‘Free Palestine’ are not enough

"Never again, never forget" says the slogan for Martial Law Day

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Melissa Cruz: The power of collective memory on martial law –...

For as long as states have made war, they have assassinated, disappeared, tortured and executed

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Gaza genocide: We made machines that think – then corrupted them...

A Fijian media kava sit down at Wasawasa

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Pacific media summit to set direction for next decade of Pacific...

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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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"Never again, never forget" says the slogan for Martial Law Day

Asia Report

Melissa Cruz: The power of collective memory on martial law –...

For as long as states have made war, they have assassinated, disappeared, tortured and executed

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Gaza genocide: We made machines that think – then corrupted them...

Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham and co-director Rachel Szor receiving the Venice Special Jury Prize for their critical Gaza war film

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The controversial documentary NAZA: 10 reasons to defend this whistleblower war...

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

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Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...