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Deir el Balah in 2024
Australia

What ceasefire? People still being killed and Gaza still under siege

APR editor -
July 12, 2026
Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025
Australia

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to know

RIMPAC 2026
Australia

RIMPAC 2026: Part 1 – World’s biggest naval games a dress rehearsal for the coming ‘war on China’ 

Human rights lawyer Sarah Schwartz who is executive director of the Jewish Council of Australia
Australia

Vile abuse and targeted by Murdoch media. The cost of speaking out against Israel

This latest UN report is significant because it focuses specifically on children
Australia

A UN report details the ‘overwhelming’ scale of children killed in Gaza. It raises grave legal questions

Mainstream media priorities in Australia when the UN report on targeted children was released
Australia

Australian media ignores UN report on Israeli deliberate killing of children

Pacific Media Watch -
June 27, 2026
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Cook Islands says bulk-buying and stockpiling places pressure on supply for everyone and is not necessary
Australia

A timeline of how the fuel crisis impacted on the Pacific

APR editor -
June 25, 2026
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Israeli Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman
Australia

Gaza flotilla victim blaming – time to expel Israel’s ambassador

APR editor -
June 19, 2026
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Gaza Sumud flotilla survivors: Juliet Lamont, Isla Lamont, Neve O'Connor
Australia

A world first: Australia will now investigate Israel over Gaza flotilla...

APR editor -
June 17, 2026
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Trillionaire Elon Musk (right) hobnobbing with billionaires
Australia

Caitlin Johnstone: The world’s first trillionaire is not your friend

APR editor -
June 14, 2026
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China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence
Australia

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

Pacific Media Watch -
June 13, 2026
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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Australia

Mark Naglazas: Blaming immigrants when we need to look inside for...

APR editor -
June 10, 2026
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Sydney CAM Rally . . . CAM uses tactics including social media, lobbying politicians and convening conferences to relentlessly pursue its goal of entrenching the IHRA definition of antisemitism into policy at all levels
Australia

Australia’s Combat Antisemitism Movement keeps slaying social cohesion

Wendy Bacon -
May 28, 2026
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US target on leftwing streamer Hasan Piker and antiwar activist Medea Benjamin
Australia

Caitlin Johnstone: Yet another escalation in the empire’s war on activism...

APR editor -
May 26, 2026
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Climate activist Violet Coco
Australia

‘Israel wanted to shame us, but the shame is Israel’s,’ says...

Pacific Media Watch -
May 26, 2026
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New Zealand Gaza flotilla supporters welcome home two Kiwi activists from brutal Israeli detention at the weekend
Australia

Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s...

APR editor -
May 25, 2026
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A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home
Australia

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

APR editor -
May 23, 2026
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Australian Gaza flotilla activist Zack Schofield
Australia

‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture

Pacific Media Watch -
May 23, 2026
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Scenes from the Bondi Royal Commission
Australia

NSW antisemitism hearings ‘drowned’ in the Bondi Royal Commission

APR editor -
May 14, 2026
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“My son,” a woman screamed in Gaza
Australia

Palestinian photojournalist wins Pulitzer for breaking news photography

Pacific Media Watch -
May 14, 2026
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Australia

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

Pacific Media Watch -
May 12, 2026
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Commissioner Virginia Bell
Australia

Australian ‘antisemitism’ – the Royal Conflation Commission is in session

APR editor -
May 10, 2026
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Reporters Without Borders says for the first time in the Index's history, more than half of the world's countries now fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories for press freedom
Australia

Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain...

Pacific Media Watch -
May 4, 2026
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Pro-Palestnian Professor John Keane (left) and linguist and vice-president of the USyd National Tertiary Education Union, Dr Nick Rieme
Australia

Antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Sydney Uni pressure to silence Israel, apartheid critics

Wendy Bacon -
April 23, 2026
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Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Australia

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Pacific Media Watch -
April 22, 2026
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Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal (from left), Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod, and vice-chancellor Mark Scott at Sydney University
Australia

Sydney Uni appoints antisemitism ‘lecturer’, forgets to tell anybody

Wendy Bacon -
April 22, 2026
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The ruling is “a big win for everyone who cares about the right to protest”
Australia

‘Unconstitutional’ – NSW court strikes down Minns’ draconian anti-protest laws

APR editor -
April 17, 2026
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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
Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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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

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Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Australia

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
Australia

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"
Analysis

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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The Yuan Wang 2 Chinese satellite tracking vessel
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Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach
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Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Minuteman III test launch, California
Analysis

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Deir el Balah in 2024
Australia

What ceasefire? People still being killed and Gaza still under siege

French-Ethiopian student Sarah Cotte
Analysis

Retrial for UK student charged with ‘terrorism’ over speech condemning genocide

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach
Culture

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025
Australia

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...

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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

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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

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Deir el Balah in 2024
Australia

What ceasefire? People still being killed and Gaza still under siege

French-Ethiopian student Sarah Cotte
Analysis

Retrial for UK student charged with ‘terrorism’ over speech condemning genocide

Ex-coup convict George Speight
Culture

Former coup leader re-enters Fiji political debate with challenge to immunity...

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach
Culture

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Editor's Picks

Deir el Balah in 2024

What ceasefire? People still being killed and Gaza still under siege

July 12, 2026
French-Ethiopian student Sarah Cotte

Retrial for UK student charged with ‘terrorism’ over speech condemning genocide

July 11, 2026
Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

July 11, 2026
Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...

July 11, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

July 10, 2026
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