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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

Australian Foreign Affars Minister Marise Payne

Australia

Australia commits $170m to boost Pacific gender equality efforts

May 1, 2021

Australian infantry in Papua New Guinea

Australia

Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars

April 26, 2023

Open Access

Australia

Fiji academic warns over media ‘climate injustice’ in open access webinar

Pacific Media Watch -

October 26, 2022

Australia

Baseless rumours: why talk of Chinese military base in Vanuatu misses...

April 13, 2018

Defence lawyer Eddie Lloyd with Violet Coco after last week's big court win

Australia

Climate activist ‘Violet’ Coco’s quashed jail sentence highlights police lies

March 20, 2023

News Corp Google inquiry

Australia

Google aren’t ‘stealing’ news content, publisher Eric Beecher tells Senate

Pacific Media Watch -

February 2, 2021

Golriz Ghahraman

Australia

Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP

March 16, 2021

The "View Information" Indonesian "troll" page

Australia

Vila-based Indonesian ‘troll’ page targets Papuan advocates

Pacific Media Watch -

April 29, 2023

Australia

RSF condemns Australian police response over NBN media leaks

Pacific Media Watch -

May 25, 2016

An upgraded HMAS Stirling in Western Australia

Australia

Nuclear submarines may never appear, but AUKUS is already in place

March 20, 2024

The Sydney "die-in" street theatre protest

Australia

Hundreds stage Sydney ‘die-in’ to protest massacres in Gaza

March 20, 2024

Australia

‘Rethink’ say ABC friends condemning Canberra’s Pacific media plan

Pacific Media Watch -

November 8, 2018

The leaked drafts are just that: drafts

Australia

Amplifying narratives about the ‘China threat’ in the Pacific may help...

May 27, 2022

Pacific Islands Forum 2022 in Suva

Australia

Australia and New Zealand’s ‘deafening silence’ on Pacific democracy and human...

July 21, 2022

Canberra media conference

Australia

Yes, politicians need to change the way they treat women. But...

April 3, 2021

An anti-monarchy protester being led away from the Palace of Westminster

Australia

‘Not my king’: do we have the right to protest the...

September 17, 2022

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (from left), PNG Prime Minister James Marape (standing) and Defence Minister Win Daki after signing the US-PNG defence cooperation pact in Port Moresby

Australia

How Washington teamed up with PNG to pip Canberra for ‘control’...

July 5, 2023

US President Joe Biden (centre) participates in a trilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (right) and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Australia

‘Bringing war much closer to home’ – Pacific elders denounce AUKUS...

April 12, 2023

Australia

RSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ

Pacific Media Watch -

March 11, 2020

Researcher engagement

Australia

Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back...

January 11, 2021

NZ soldiers in Fiji exercise

Australia

Fiji hosts US-led multinational military exercises on Pacific ‘threats’

September 22, 2022

The proposed Voice for Australia is the opposite of apartheid

Australia

The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this...

May 23, 2023

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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

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

Rabaul's Archbishop Rochus Tatamai

Culture

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

Activist minister Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua brandishes the petition against the AUKUS military pact at the launch

Decolonisation

Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Rev Mua Strickson-Pua

The Bradbury Group's presenter Martyn Bradbury talks Gaza to Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal

Asia Report

The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report...

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...