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Palestine solidarity activists, university staff and students facing repression will be encouraged by Antoinette Lattouf’s (inset) victory

Australia

Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers

Pacific Media Watch -

June 27, 2025

Leaked messages from a WhatsApp group called "Lawyers for Israel"

Australia

Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza

PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal (left) at yesterday's Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland

Australia

NZ group slams Israeli ‘hoodwinking’ of US over nuclear strikes – Peters calls for talks

Images have been circulating on social media of Indonesian rockets that have been reportedly fired on villages

Australia

AWPA calls on Albanese to raise West Papuan human rights with Prabowo

Investigative journalist Richard Baker's SBS "Fallout" podcast on the Rainbow Warrior and the Norfolk Island connection

Australia

Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast

Thousands took part in last week's International Women's Day rally

Australia

Thousands in Melbourne rally for International Women’s Day, Gaza

March 10, 2025

Doctors and medical staff, some rescuing babies, were ordered out of Gaza's Al-Awda Hospital

Australia

Global outrage continues over Israeli defiance of World Court Rafah order

May 26, 2024

"What is happening in America is having a profound impact on journalism (and by extension journalism education) in Australia

Australia

Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 30, 2025

A crew member on board the RAN frigate HMAS Stuart monitors the Chinese Navy's missile destroyer Zunyi and the supply ship Weishanhu

Australia

Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world

March 17, 2025

Impact of political and media discourse in their everyday lives

Australia

‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of...

September 6, 2021

Flashback to the Second World War

Australia

Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans

April 21, 2024

The Conversation A&NZ editor Misha Ketchell and CEO Lisa Watt

Australia

The Conversation story – celebrating 10 years of news from experts

March 30, 2021

USP's associate professor Shailendra Singh and QUT's professor Angela Romano

Australia

Australian student journos explore Fiji media landscape with USP team

February 13, 2024

The University of Papua New Guinea's Waigani campus

Australia

Armed group seize Australian professor, 3 PNG researchers hostage, reports ABC

February 20, 2023

Protesters at a local inner Sydney council meeting

Australia

Rightwing astroturfers infiltrate Australian local councils, fire up unrest over Israel

September 11, 2024

"Australia-owned Pacific telco likely exploited by private spies"

Australia

‘Journalism has become a blood sport. It is harder and harder...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 8, 2025

Australia

IFJ, MEAA condemn Facebook threat to ban Australian users sharing news

Pacific Media Watch -

September 3, 2020

Pillar one of AUKUS involves the delivery of nuclear submarines

Australia

Have New Zealanders really been ‘misled’ about AUKUS, or is involvement...

April 21, 2024

Blamed on covid-19 pandemic

Australia

World Press Freedom Day 2021: Hostility towards journalists on rise

May 3, 2021

Taking the world's biggest problem to the world’s highest court for global climate justice

Australia

Climate justice: Action groups livid over Australia’s submission at ICJ

December 4, 2024

French aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle and its Strike Group

Australia

France’s Southern Cross regional military exercise moves to Wallis

March 24, 2025

ABC's new chair Kim Williams

Australia

New ABC chair must restore reputation for independence, says MEAA

Pacific Media Watch -

January 24, 2024

Australia

Ruby Princess crew put in virus danger – not protected, says...

April 14, 2020

French Shortfin Barracuda submarine

Australia

ANZUS without NZ? Why the new security pact between Australia, the...

September 17, 2021

Pacific women show off the colours of the Morning Star flag of West Papuan "independence" at MACFEST2023

Australia

Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR

Pacific Journalism Review -

August 1, 2023

Journalists at Taipei's Grand Hotel reception celebrating seven years of the Asia Pacific regional office of RSF

Australia

RSF tackles Taiwan’s media freedom ‘Achilles heel’, boosts Asia Pacific monitoring...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 26, 2024

Palestine - "a moral litmus test for the world"

Australia

Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024

January 3, 2025

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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

Analysis

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

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

BEARING WITNESS

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

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

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

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...

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.

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

POPULAR POSTS

Flags from most of the Micronesian islands participating in the regional summit this week fly outside the International Conference Center

Aviation

Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

PSNA co-chairs John Minto and Maher Nazzal said the referral “carefully outlines a case that six NZ individuals should be investigated”

Asia Report

Palestine solidarity group lawyers refer NZ prime minister Luxon, 3 ministers...

Since the data breach, the Tongan government has said "a small amount" of information from the attack was published online. This included confidential information,

Crime

Tonga cybersecurity attack wake-up call for Pacific, warns expert

EDITOR'S PICKS

Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman

Asia Report

Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice...

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese

Asia Report

UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy...

The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning

Analysis

The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...

Rabaul's Archbishop Rochus Tatamai

Culture

Catholic Church warns against PNG declaring itself a ‘Christian country’

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

Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman

Asia Report

Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice...

Protesters picketing a Rocket Lab manufacturing site in Warkworth

Asia Report

Palestine protesters target NZ businesses ‘complicit’ with Israel’s Gaza genocide

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese

Asia Report

UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy...

PSNA co-chairs John Minto and Maher Nazzal said the referral “carefully outlines a case that six NZ individuals should be investigated”

Asia Report

Palestine solidarity group lawyers refer NZ prime minister Luxon, 3 ministers...