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Global progress against impunity for crimes against journalists has been reversed by the rise in incidents of journalists killed in conflict zones
Australia

Journalism cannot survive where attacks on journalists go unpunished

Pacific Media Watch -
November 3, 2026
The BBC still runs its story on six-year-old Hind Rajab, killed by Israeli forces, under the headline "Hind Rajab, 6, found dead
Australia

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals

Sacha Roytman, chief executive of Combat Antisemitism Movement
Australia

Israelis mislead Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Former SBS broadcaster Mary Kostakidis
Australia

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

MEAA members at the ABC have overwhelmingly backed a motion defending the rights of elected union representatives
Australia

Australian journalist and unionist threatened with disciplinary action over opinion article

Round 1 to the PNG Chiefs in NZ High Court
Australia

High Court declines NZ Rugby’s bid for interim injunction on PNG...

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October 16, 2026
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay praised, pilloried, ignored by Australia

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October 13, 2026
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ABC Media Watch
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‘Flying High Dubai’ – Michael West Media responds to ABC Media...

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Fiji's Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara
Australia

Fijian chief calls for scrutiny of Fiji-Australia security treaties

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September 22, 2026
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“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
Australia

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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September 20, 2026
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"Put the greens last"
Australia

Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

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September 17, 2026
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Zionist quartet
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Israel funded the legal assault on Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis

Pacific Media Watch -
September 16, 2026
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Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis
Australia

Journalist Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby – and courage...

Pacific Media Watch -
September 12, 2026
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Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025
Australia

Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

Pacific Media Watch -
September 12, 2026
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"Affirmed, noted, endorsed" at the 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders summit media conference in Koror
Australia

Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Koror – heavy on reaffirming but...

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September 11, 2026
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TSIMA reporting from Palau - today's story in the Torres News
Australia

Australia snubs Torres Strait in Melanesian Spearhead Group bid

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
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Pacific Islands Forum: Is Australia out of touch with the Pacific...

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September 10, 2026
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An United Israel Appeal tour
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Labor and Coalition vote down bill to strip tax breaks from...

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September 10, 2026
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Australian Green Senator David Shoebridge seeking information from the Department of Home Affairs
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‘New level of bastardry’ – Australia releases NZYQ agreement with Naoero

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September 9, 2026
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An idyllic scene at Taga Beach, Tinian, in the Northern Marianas
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A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C...

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September 9, 2026
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Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024
Australia

‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom?

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September 2, 2026
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The University of Sydney
Australia

Alumni revolt over Israel: 450 Sydney Uni staff, graduates accuse university...

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August 28, 2026
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You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels
Australia

Caitlin Johnstone: All it takes is one crack in the lie...

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August 28, 2026
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Forty current and former soldiers of the Israel "Defence" Forces (IDF) will jog across the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Australia

Comedian’s Australian visa sabotaged, war crimes suspects cheered through

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August 27, 2026
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"The fact that you can sling around libel without evidence in the largest newspapers in Australia gives us a window into how discussion of basic Palestinian rights is shut down"
Australia

Adam Johnson: Coverage of my media book being banned proves the...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 26, 2026
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NSW Justice Desmond Fagan
Australia

Segal’s speech code meets the law – Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s...

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August 24, 2026
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NSW Premier Chris Minns
Australia

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

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August 23, 2026
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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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
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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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
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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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“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
Australia

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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"
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Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

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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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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders
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Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu

Gold medal weightlifter George Speight
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The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"
Asia Report

PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

US midterm elections in the Pacific
American Samoa

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders
Crime

Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu

Gold medal weightlifter George Speight
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Former coup leader George Speight wins Oceania powerlifting gold for Fiji

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The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

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November 4, 2026
US midterm elections in the Pacific

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

November 4, 2026
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders

Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu

November 4, 2026
Gold medal weightlifter George Speight

Former coup leader George Speight wins Oceania powerlifting gold for Fiji

November 4, 2026
Global progress against impunity for crimes against journalists has been reversed by the rise in incidents of journalists killed in conflict zones

Journalism cannot survive where attacks on journalists go unpunished

November 3, 2026
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