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Bougainville President Ishamel Toroama speaking at the launch of the Bougainville Digital Democracy Project earlier this year

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Progress reported out of Bougainville independence talks at Burnham

June 12, 2025

Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

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New Zealand’s ‘symbolic’ sanctions on Israel too little, too late, say opposition parties

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters gave the game away

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NZ and Gaza – Peters appearing to do something, when doing nothing

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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US criticises allies as NZ bans two top far-right Israeli ministers

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer at a pro-Palestinian rally outside the NZ Parliament

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Te Pāti Māori condemns Israel for Gaza ‘horrific violence’ over Madleen arrest

Gaza Freedom Flotilla peace activist Thiago Ávila in an interview with journalist Abby Martin before being kidnapped by Israeli forces

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Why Israel’s ‘humane’ propaganda is such a sinister facade

June 9, 2025

French-Palestinian MEP parliamentarian Rima Hassan

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Palestinian supporters in NZ accuse Israel of ‘state piracy’ and condemn...

June 9, 2025

Brazilian activist Thiago Avila wearing a life jacket

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Israeli forces intercept Gaza freedom aid boat Madleen – cut communications

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June 9, 2025

For more than 20 months, Israeli authorities have barred foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli military have killed nearly 200 Palestinian journalists

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Gaza plea: RSF, CPJ and 150+ media outlets call on Israel...

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June 8, 2025

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

Gaza Freedom Flotilla peace activist Thiago Ávila

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‘They cannot block us,’ says activist on Madleen flotilla aid ship...

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June 7, 2025

Half of the Marshall Islands' 50,000-strong population live in the capital city of Majuro

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Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research

June 6, 2025

Te Pāti Māori's Rawiri Waititi (from left), Hana Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer . . . punished

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Punishment for Te Pāti Māori over Treaty haka stands – but...

June 5, 2025

How the Lae edition of the PNG Post-Courier reported the crisis

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Internal tensions throw PNG anti-corruption body into crisis

June 5, 2025

Coverage of decolonisation in the Pacific, the lack of women's representation in parliaments

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Independent Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts

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June 5, 2025

Taeri MP and former journalist Ingrid Leary

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Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education given airing

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June 4, 2025

Independent writer Eugene Doyle

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Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide

June 2, 2025

RSF has filed four complaints with the ICC over war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza and were at the Cannes Film Festival to pay tribute to Fatma Hassoun

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Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza...

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May 29, 2025

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

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Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

May 29, 2025

NBC managing director Kora Nou

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Papua New Guinea seeks ‘fast track’ advice on resurrecting shortwave radio

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May 28, 2025

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

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Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

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May 27, 2025

Deputy Chief Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan

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Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at...

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May 26, 2025

New Zealand's Governor-General, Dame Cindy Kiro, with journalist and educator Dr David Robie at the investiture ceremony

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Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism

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May 26, 2025

Although New Caledonia is one of New Zealand’s closest neighbours, the French colony feels very isolated from the rest of the Pacific

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While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for...

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May 26, 2025

The 1 May 2025 report by Talamua Online that led to the criminal libel case

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Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism

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May 23, 2025

Talamua Online editor Lagi Keresoma

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Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge

May 22, 2025

Media Council of PNG president Neville Choi

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PNG journalists warned over lawfare – ‘we don’t have any law...

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May 22, 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
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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.

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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

Thirty two newborns in Fiji have been diagnosed with HIV

Development

‘HIV shouldn’t be death sentence in Fiji’ – call for testing...

It’s important to remember that these events have only happened because Israel has imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip since March

Analysis

Thou shalt protect Israel: The West’s first and only commandment

Ponsonby Post Office in Three Lamps

Business

Ponsonby community up in arms over impending post office closure

A child victim of the Indonesian military raids in Sugapa district

Asia Report

More deaths reported out of Sugapa in West Papua clashes with...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Bougainville President Ishamel Toroama speaking at the launch of the Bougainville Digital Democracy Project earlier this year

Pacific Media Watch

Progress reported out of Bougainville independence talks at Burnham

Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Pacific Media Watch

New Zealand’s ‘symbolic’ sanctions on Israel too little, too late, say...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Pacific Media Watch

US criticises allies as NZ bans two top far-right Israeli ministers

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer at a pro-Palestinian rally outside the NZ Parliament

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Te Pāti Māori condemns Israel for Gaza ‘horrific violence’ over Madleen...

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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

Bougainville President Ishamel Toroama speaking at the launch of the Bougainville Digital Democracy Project earlier this year

Pacific Media Watch

Progress reported out of Bougainville independence talks at Burnham

Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Pacific Media Watch

New Zealand’s ‘symbolic’ sanctions on Israel too little, too late, say...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters gave the game away

Pacific Media Watch

NZ and Gaza – Peters appearing to do something, when doing...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Pacific Media Watch

US criticises allies as NZ bans two top far-right Israeli ministers