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The two latest shootings in Kanaky New Caledonia bring the number of deaths in the Pacific territory to 13

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French police shoot dead two Kanaks in New Caledonian ‘assassinations’

September 20, 2024

The objective of France's national gendarmerie

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France boosts Pacific security forces as symbolic ‘September 24’ date looms

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

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Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

Nickel Prony Resources mining site in New Caledonia

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SA company Sibaneye-Stillwater eyes New Caledonia nickel mining plant

Domestic airline Air Calédonie’s ATR 72-600 to fly biweekly to Port Vila from October 2024

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New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets

A collage of the many fires on New Caledonia’s Catholic missions

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New Caledonia crisis: Another church burns, spate of attacks continues

September 10, 2024

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Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership

August 12, 2024

Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and PIF Secretary General Baron Waqa

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Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia

August 11, 2024

All quiet and empty on the Nouméa streets . . . curfew extended

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Macron gives Pacific mission to Kanaky New Caledonia green light, says...

August 9, 2024

French security forces are still working on removing roadblocks

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France ‘decides who enters’ New Caledonia: French diplomat on Pacific leaders...

August 8, 2024

Kanak great chief Hippolyte Sinewami Htamumu

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Kanak great chief resigns from New Caledonia’s customary Senate

August 1, 2024

An aerial view of New Caledonia's Koniambo (KNS) mine site

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New Caledonia’s mothballed nickel plant starts mass sackings process

July 29, 2024

The Facebook ban on In-Depth Solomons reports

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Facebook reportedly censors posts by Solomon Islands news outlet

Pacific Media Watch -

July 26, 2024

"All Out For Kanaky"

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French President Macron yet to sign-off on Pacific leaders bid to...

July 25, 2024

"All Eyes on Papua" . . . a campaign against Indonesian exploitation of Papuan rainforests

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Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s...

July 24, 2024

French riot police near the spot - marked with a tribal offering - where 19-year-old Jybril Salo was shot in the back last May.

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New Zealand urged to take bolder stand over New Caledonia’s third...

July 23, 2024

A Kanaky prison parallel with Palestine

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From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific

July 22, 2024

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair

July 20, 2024

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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NZ’s Winston Peters calls for ‘more diplomacy, engagement, compromise’ in New...

July 19, 2024

The recent Fiji mass rally for decolonisation and justice in Suva

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PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues

Pacific Media Watch -

July 19, 2024

Touho airport control tower on fire

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Kanaky New Caledonia crisis: Kanak lawyer warns ‘separatism’ will worsen inequalities

July 16, 2024

The "pre-Bastille Day" march in the Fijian capital of Suva

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When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and hypocrisy share...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 14, 2024

Ten more armoured Centaur vehicles and 15 firetrucks have been delivered to Kanaky New Caledonia

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New riot vehicle shipment arrives for police, firemen in New Caledonia

July 14, 2024

Challenges facing journalism - Dr David Robie's wide-ranging keynote address

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‘Frontline Media Faultlines’ – David Robie’s keynote address to Pacific Media...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 14, 2024

Kanak independence candidate Emmanuel Tjibaou

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A surprising litmus test for Kanaky New Caledonia’s independence parties

July 13, 2024

Decolonisation protesters outside Parliament during the "Kanaky and West Papua" demonstration in the Fijian capital Suva yesterday

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Fiji protesters call for freedom and justice in the Pacific –...

July 13, 2024

French security forces operating in the New Caledonian village of Saint Louis

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Death toll in Kanaky New Caledonia unrest reaches 10

July 11, 2024

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CLIMATE AND COVID

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

Stephanie Sageo-Tapungu

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How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

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Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

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According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

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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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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

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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

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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern

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King’s Birthday Honours: Former NZ leader Jacinda Ardern receives high accolade

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Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

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Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

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

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

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Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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

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)

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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)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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The two latest shootings in Kanaky New Caledonia bring the number of deaths in the Pacific territory to 13

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French police shoot dead two Kanaks in New Caledonian ‘assassinations’

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The two latest shootings in Kanaky New Caledonia bring the number of deaths in the Pacific territory to 13

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French police shoot dead two Kanaks in New Caledonian ‘assassinations’