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New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women MPs

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Papua's Tom Beanal
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Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale
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A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media
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Invoking the Pacific's Biketawa Declaration
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Pacific Forum responds to current global fuel and energy challenges

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French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira
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Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party

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Tavini’s historic leader Oscar Temaru (from left), French Polynesia’s current President Moetai Brotherson, and Tematai Le Gayic
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Rift widens within French Polynesia’s ruling party following municipal election losses

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The Cree Indian motif – inspired by the mythology of the elderly woman "Eyes of Fire" and her vision for the future – painted on the original Rainbow Warrior smoke stack
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From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific

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Arbitrary detention, ill-treatment and internal displacement of West Papuans
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Wenda condemns ‘cruel’ arbitrary arrests of West Papuans in Tambrauw

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TVNZ 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
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West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid

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Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast
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Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands
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New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie
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‘I know she’d be really proud’ – NZ’s first Pasifika heritage...

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Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau
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Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

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Community and social justice activist Roger Fowler
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Roger Fowler’s legacy – and the Polynesian Panthers connection

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Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler
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Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels
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The council president is not merely a passive moderator but a pacesetter, agenda-shaper, balance-keeper
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Indonesia’s human rights law being revised under a global spotlight

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"While New Zealand was formally invited to join the Board -- and chose to decline -- Fiji was not invited at all"
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A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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"The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."
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