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Australian journalist, editor and manager Bob Howarth in Timorese ceremonial dress in Dili

Timor-Leste

‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on

Pacific Media Watch -

November 25, 2025

Australian mentor Bob Howarth with journalists in Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste

Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture

Australian journalist Roger Domm with Falintil resistance fighters in Timor-Leste in 1990

Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste’s Xanana Gusmão pays tribute to journalist Robert Domm over independence struggle

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Timor-Leste

‘Don’t surrender’ to Indonesian pressure over West Papua, Bomanak warns MSG

A poster highlighting the issue of political prisoners depicting the Kanak flag after the pro-independence unrest and riots

Timor-Leste

New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili

A training session for the UN Pacific peacekeepers cohort

Timor-Leste

Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region

May 19, 2025

Palestine - "a moral litmus test for the world"

Timor-Leste

Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024

January 3, 2025

UN members vote overwhelmingly to demand a ceasefire in Gaza

Timor-Leste

UN overwhelmingly backs immediate Gaza ceasefire – but 3 Pacific nations...

December 12, 2024

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

Timor-Leste

Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

September 17, 2024

Australian academic and social justIce advocate Helen Hill

Timor-Leste

Helen Hill: for social justice and Timor-Leste’s independence

July 23, 2024

Former Green Party MP and foreign affairs spokesperson Keith Locke

Timor-Leste

Former Green MP and ‘conscience of the year’ Keith Locke dies,...

June 21, 2024

Freelance Gaza journalist Moussa Al Zaanoun

Timor-Leste

NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 3, 2024

Flashback to the Second World War

Timor-Leste

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

April 21, 2024

The ULMWP congress in Jayapura in November 2023

Timor-Leste

West Papuan call to boycott Indonesian elections and ‘reclaim sovereignty’

January 11, 2024

Morning Star flags of West Papuan independence on display at MACFEST2023

Timor-Leste

Yamin Kogoya: ‘Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future’ – culture and...

July 24, 2023

Xanana Gusmao's CNRT party is expected to form a coalition with the Democratic Party

Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste’s opposition party wins election ‘punishing’ ruling Fretilin coalition

May 24, 2023

Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy

May 21, 2023

Journalist José Belo

Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste makes top ten in 2023 World Press Freedom Index

Pacific Media Watch -

May 3, 2023

Bob Howarth (centre), a former PNG Media Council chair

Timor-Leste

Learn from Timor-Leste ‘freedom’, says former PNG media council head

Pacific Media Watch -

February 17, 2023

Author Phil Kafcaloudes (centre) with Australia Calling colleagues

Timor-Leste

Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement

January 27, 2023

Peace Action cover detail

Timor-Leste

New book has focus on Pacific activists against militarism, for climate...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 12, 2022

Independent journalist Raimundos Oki

Timor-Leste

RSF criticises charges against Timor-Leste reporter over revealing minors given virginity...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 20, 2022

Independent journalist Raimundos Oki

Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste journalist faces probe after exposing child abuse case

Pacific Media Watch -

July 15, 2022

The Oekusi Post chief editor Raimundos Oki

Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste journalist Raimundos Oki charged with breach of ‘legal secrets’...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 30, 2022

Showing how it's done in Dili - Wang Yi media conference

Timor-Leste

Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers

June 5, 2022

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Timor-Leste

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Timor-Leste

RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour

Pacific Media Watch -

June 3, 2022

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

BEARING WITNESS

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

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?

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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

POPULAR POSTS

"The rules-based international order is a system that shields the powerful and abandons the vulnerable"

Analysis

Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order

Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust

Analysis

Academics call for divestment from NZ pensions fund implicated in Gaza

PNG police and crime . . . military issue arms are a fairly recent addition to tribal fighting.

Crime

Leaders of PNG’s Enga province plagued by violence – vow to...

Step back from your stupidity. Submit your claims to scrutiny

Asia Report

Open letter: Seven warning signals to the global warmongers who are...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Democracy

High Court defeat piles pressure on ’embarrassed’ Fiji PM Rabuka’s leadership,...

Omar Shakir

Asia Report

Israel-Palestine head of Human Rights Watch quits over ‘blocked’ report

Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust

Analysis

Academics call for divestment from NZ pensions fund implicated in Gaza

US journalist Don Lemon reporting at the Cities Church in St Paul

Civil Society

‘Journalism is not a crime’ – US journalists arrested for covering...

MOST COMMENTS

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

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

The Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi delegation participated in a pōwhiri with iwi taketake at Te Tii Waitangi Mārae yesterday

Decolonisation

Big Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi delegation joins Māori in solidarity over Te...

Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust

Analysis

Academics call for divestment from NZ pensions fund implicated in Gaza

US journalist Don Lemon reporting at the Cities Church in St Paul

Civil Society

‘Journalism is not a crime’ – US journalists arrested for covering...

A state visit to Australia "presented to us not as diplomacy, not as geopolitics, not as a strategic signal, but as 'healing'"

Analysis

What is Israel’s Herzog doing in Australia – who invited him,...