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This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

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Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to David Robie

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March 20, 2025

New Zealand journalist Mohamed Hassan presenting the Big Picture podcast

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Netanyahu commits a new ‘bloodbath in Gaza’ to save himself

The morgue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza

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Massacre at 2 am – Israel resumes indiscriminate attacks against Gaza, killing 400+ people

Indonesian police arrest the "Sentani 12" activists

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West Papua liberation group demands Indonesia releases 12 arrested activists

A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

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Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro

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Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history

March 15, 2025

Canadian billionaire James Grenon and NZME

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Gavin Ellis: Canadian billionaire must explain his designs on NZME –...

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March 14, 2025

Waatea Digital station manager Matthew Tukaki

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Future of Māori radio needs more investment – both for online...

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March 14, 2025

Arrested Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte

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

March 13, 2025

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos

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Gavin Ellis: Amazon founder Bezos dims lights on democracy

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March 9, 2025

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Gallery: NZ women call for long-term peace and justice in Palestine

March 8, 2025

Rocky Roe on Lihir Island, New Ireland, in 2013

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Through the lens of time: A tribute to ‘Rocky’ Roe’s PNG...

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March 8, 2025

"The genocide didn't stop"

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The world cannot ignore Trump’s death threat to my people of...

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March 8, 2025

NZ's major print media and radio company NZME

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Union wary of Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon’s NZ media influence

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March 6, 2025

Protesting for Palestine in Australia

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Australian university workers: ‘We will not be silenced over Palestine’

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March 6, 2025

Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt

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RSF slams ‘horrific conditions’ for journalists in Gaza in wake of...

March 5, 2025

An Israeli tank in an intimidating move in the occupied West Bank

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Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank – but Western...

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March 2, 2025

Once you recognise this manipulated media environment

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Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right

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February 27, 2025

Political symbols in opposition

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J’accuse!… the Jew who accuses his fellow Jews of being antisemites

February 26, 2025

French Overseas Minister Manuel Valls (centre) clashes

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Valls faces Kanak ‘first people’ clash with loyalists over independence talks

February 24, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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Marape’s message to PNG men, boys: ‘Stop the violence against women’

February 23, 2025

Avera Mengistu, a 37-year-old Ethiopian Israeli dual national, being released

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Hamas handover spectacles are demo to world of ‘keeping captives safe’,...

February 23, 2025

Abdullah Al-Yazouri, the 13-year-old boy who acts as narrator

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Critics condemn ‘cowardly’ BBC for pulling Gaza warzone youth survival documentary

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February 22, 2025

Al Jazeera's senior political and media analyst Marwan Bishara

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Media analyst criticises Trump for applying ‘strategic coercion, economic blackmail’ policy

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February 22, 2025

Fij's planned Jerusalem move . . . illegal under international law

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Fiji’s diplomatic move to Jerusalem sparks controversy with Palestine

February 21, 2025

Dark Times Academy

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US backing for Pacific disinformation media course casualty of Trump aid...

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February 20, 2025

Samir Al-Mana'ama, a lawyer with the Al Mazan Center for Human Rights

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Hamas, PIJ slam Israel’s ‘barbaric’ raid on Palestinians at Ofer Prison

February 18, 2025

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

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

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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

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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

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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

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Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

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David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

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Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

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.

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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

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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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

The morgue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza

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Massacre at 2 am – Israel resumes indiscriminate attacks against Gaza,...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Democracy

Fijian academic says PM’s plans to change constitution ‘might take a...

A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

Pacific Media Watch

Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

Culture

Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

EDITOR'S PICKS

This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Pacific Media Watch

Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

Asia Report

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement

New Zealand journalist Mohamed Hassan presenting the Big Picture podcast

Pacific Media Watch

Netanyahu commits a new ‘bloodbath in Gaza’ to save himself

Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

Culture

Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

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

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

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

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

NZ's Foreign Minister Winston Peters now more optimistic

Asia Report

US might not cut pledged Pacific aid, says NZ foreign minister

This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Pacific Media Watch

Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Asia Report

Swarbrick pleads for NZ cross-party support for sanctions on Israel

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

Asia Report

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement