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Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)
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‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

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PSNA co-chair John Minto
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Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is in the Western media’s DNA

The Heritage Foundation
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1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
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Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson
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French Polynesia urges Pacific to unite amid rising global tensions

Union organiser and socialist Joe Carolan speaking at an anti-war rally
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace
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Curse of Gold
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Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

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Shattered homes . . . community leaders at Port Moresby's Paga Hill settlement
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Academic’s warning over PNG settlement evictions – doomed to failure?

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Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people
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’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

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A draft US military training document for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands provides for joint military training exercises
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US military opens environmental review for expanded Marianas training footprint

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Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast
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West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...

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Densely populated parts of Tehran are being pounded by wave after wave of US and Israeli bombs.  Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran was struck on the day of the funerals of he schoolgirls from Minab
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The smallest coffins are always the heaviest. The US-Israeli killing of...

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“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF
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An oil tanker docked at the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand
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US-Israel’s war on Iran – mostly negative scenarios for the Pacific

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Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands
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New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie
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Iranians mourning the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster

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Community members in Iowa protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran
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New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa

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Pacific Island fuel prices are generally high and volatile
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A mourner holds up a picture of one of the victims of the US-Israeli attack on Iran at Minab
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Alternative Jewish Voices: Stop this Iran catastrophe!

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Assassinated in the US-Israel attacks . . . Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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US-Israel’s war of aggression – Epic Fury or Epic Screw-up?

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Opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins
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NZ’s opposition leader Chris Hipkins says US-Israel strikes illegal

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Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau
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Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

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If the US can install another puppet in Tehran as obedient as the Shah after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s refineries will once again be at the mercy of US oil companies
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Iran's Ambassador Reza Nazar Ahari
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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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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
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
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USP and AUT journalism collaboration
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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
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Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)
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Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)

‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

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PSNA co-chair John Minto

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