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Selwyn Manning: Mouths firmly shut – is a cover-up in play?

March 7, 2016

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Disney’s Moana: First Pacific movie princess the real deal

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Peter S. Kinjap: Only a ‘scrub up’, fresh MPs can save PNG’s future

The village on Serua Island, Fiji

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Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood their homes and crops

French Shortfin Barracuda submarine

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ANZUS without NZ? Why the new security pact between Australia, the UK and US might not be all it seems

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Scott Waide: Any Facebook shutdown in PNG dangerous on many levels

May 30, 2018

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‘I was told it was against kastom for women to be...

March 8, 2016

Mamamia headline

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Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza

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May 15, 2024

Muzhgan Samarqandi and her husband Daniel Kleinsman

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Muzhgan Samarqandi: MIQ debate trivialises the plight of women and girls...

February 1, 2022

Owen Wilkes speaking at a protest at the US base at Christchurch Airport

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Owen Wilkes, the intellect behind New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance

January 17, 2023

The evidence shows that effective leaders do not conform to their ideal or play by their rule book

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From ‘pretty communist’ to ‘Jabcinda’ – what’s behind the vitriol directed...

March 16, 2022

The RNZ situation is the more serious of the two episodes

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Gavin Ellis: Proof our newsrooms need a ‘second pair of eyes’

June 14, 2023

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Students to talk frankly on NZ race relations at national hui

April 29, 2019

Tuilaepa Dr Sa'ilele Malielegaoi

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Samoa Observer: Silence tears down a nation

May 9, 2021

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New Zealand PM’s diplomatic debacle and geopolitical hypocrisy over Fiji

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June 22, 2016

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It’s all about trust – and why I trust Jacinda over...

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May 5, 2020

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Obama’s legacy is bittersweet – and its chance of survival hangs...

January 22, 2017

Press freedom Index

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Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom

April 23, 2020

People helping an injured Palestinian woman

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Marilyn Garson: Nakba is an event in the present tense –...

May 11, 2021

International peace researcher Owen Wilkes

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Memories from Sweden of the dedicated peace researcher Owen Wilkes

December 15, 2022

The closure of NZ's last current affairs television programme, Sunday, and Newshub

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Myles Thomas: Newshub, TVNZ job cuts: We now have the worst...

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April 17, 2024

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

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Netanyahu stresses the need for more propaganda as Israel’s Hasbara budget...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 12, 2026

Thousands of Papuan protesters

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Yamin Kogoya: Fatal disconnect between Jakarta and West Papua worsens settler-colonial...

June 6, 2022

Pro-Palestinian protesters at a New Zealand solidarity rally in Auckland

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Israel’s endgame for tormented Gaza is political and physical erasure

April 25, 2025

"Bloodied but as yet unbowed, Iran knows it can rise like the Phoenix"

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Eugene Doyle: Who will pay billions in reparations to Iran? We...

April 5, 2026

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

University of the South Pacific

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Top global accolades for USP, the ‘captain’ and Pacific regionalism

September 11, 2021

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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

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"

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

Decolonisation

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

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

Asia Report

‘Is it NZ First, or Israel First?’ Ormsby challenges NZ foreign...

Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .

Bougainville

Bougainville Copper Limited takes stock after Panguna licence setback

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

Opinion

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

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The leftwing heart of the Labour Party were upset by Starmer's support for Israel.

Analysis

Palestine Action ‘terror’ sentencing, Starmer resignation but Labour change unlikely over...

Pro-Palestine protesters set off a blood-red flare outside the US Consulate in the peaceful March for Peace demonstration in Auckland

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Paul Hopkinson: Why NZ’s ‘Free Palestine’ party seeks to put Gaza...

Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .

Bougainville

Bougainville Copper Limited takes stock after Panguna licence setback

People queue to vote in Bougainville’s independence referendum

Bougainville

PNG’s ruling party supports 15-year transition period for Bougainville

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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

The leftwing heart of the Labour Party were upset by Starmer's support for Israel.

Analysis

Palestine Action ‘terror’ sentencing, Starmer resignation but Labour change unlikely over...

Four days before the Kanaky New Caledonia provincial elections, the pro-independence Kanak Workers and Exploited Workers' Union (USTKE) has announced its voting preferences in all three provinces

Elections

Alcohol sales banned in New Caledonia as provincial election approaches

Pro-Palestine protesters set off a blood-red flare outside the US Consulate in the peaceful March for Peace demonstration in Auckland

Opinion

Paul Hopkinson: Why NZ’s ‘Free Palestine’ party seeks to put Gaza...

Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .

Bougainville

Bougainville Copper Limited takes stock after Panguna licence setback