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Papuan supporters of Governor Lukas Enembe protest against efforts by Indonesian authorities to "criminalise" him

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Papuan protesters warn Jakarta – ‘don’t criminalise’ Governor Enembe

September 16, 2022

"There is no 'both sides' to a genocide"

Pacific Voices

Janfrie Wakim: Time to take action over the Gaza bloodshed – hope isn’t enough

Nurse Suliana Bulavakarua

Pacific Voices

Fiji student son tells of his pregnant nurse mum’s losing struggle with covid

Rongelap Islanders on board the Rainbow Warrior bound for Mejatto in May 1985

Pacific Voices

Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US

Fiji's Professor Biman Prasad

Pacific Voices

Prasad confident ‘fed up’ Fijians will make a change in this year’s election

The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior arrives in the Marshall Islands

Pacific Voices

Rainbow Warrior back in Marshall Islands on nuclear justice mission

March 12, 2025

Pacific Voices

Martha Louis: We need to to do our bit in helping...

March 27, 2018

Freed West Papuan leader Victor Yeimo

Pacific Voices

Release of Victor Yeimo from Indonesian prison rekindles West Papuan fight...

September 24, 2023

The funeral of Papuan independence leader Filep Karma

Pacific Voices

Papua’s Customary Council forms team to probe activist Filep Karma’s death

November 5, 2022

Morning Star flag protest 220321

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Indonesian police make an arbitrary arrest of 5 students in Jayapura

March 23, 2021

Moruroa files

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The Moruroa Files – how cutting edge science, secret documents and...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 10, 2021

No jails in Tokelau

Pacific Voices

Tokelau family under house arrest for nearly a year over vaccine...

July 20, 2022

FijiVillage news director Vijay Narayan

Pacific Voices

Fiji journalism – starting with the people and ending with the...

April 23, 2024

West Papuan protesters demanding "freedom" stage a demonstration outside the US Embassy in Jakarta

Pacific Voices

Indonesia to negotiate with West Papuan rebels for NZ pilot’s release

February 16, 2023

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Pacific Voices

Rabuka, PIF ‘undermine credibility’ of Pacific experts over Japan’s nuclear waste...

August 12, 2023

1987 Fiji coup "reenactment"t

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Days of Fiji ‘banana republic’ protests remembered in Bavadra reunion

May 29, 2021

International Women's Day in Fiji

Pacific Voices

Gavoka slams Fiji’s ‘shameless’ inaction over women’s rights

March 8, 2022

South Vietnamese torture "tiger cages" against the Viet Cong at the War Remnants Museum on Ho Chi Minh City

Pacific Voices

Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s...

April 19, 2025

Celebrating the launch of USP's SCORI on 22May23

Pacific Voices

Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea...

May 29, 2023

The village on Serua Island, Fiji

Pacific Voices

Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood...

January 10, 2023

New Zealand Reporter of the Year Barbara Dreaver

Pacific Voices

Pacific journalists are strong and ‘it’s up to us’, says honoured...

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December 30, 2023

Fijian newsrooms are embracing the digital shift

Pacific Voices

Fiji’s mainstream media fight for survival in social media era

Pacific Media Watch -

November 18, 2024

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Controversy over renaming Tahiti’s hospital after Chirac amid covid crisis

January 15, 2021

Aupito Tofae Su'a William Sio

Pacific Voices

‘We stand with you’ – Pacific overstayers called to speak out

May 5, 2023

New Senator Robert Xowie for New Caledonia

Pacific Voices

FLNKS mayor wins run-off poll to take unprecedented French Senate seat

September 27, 2023

Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry being held hostage

Pacific Voices

Speight’s Fiji coup had more to do with power, greed than...

May 19, 2025

The Fiji Times 270421

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Shailendra Singh: Some tough covid questions for Fiji after 12 more...

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April 27, 2021

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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

Pacific Voices

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Pacific Voices

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

Pacific Voices

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

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

Pacific Voices

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)

Pacific Voices

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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Susi Newborn, a Greenpeace founder, Rainbow Warrior crew stalwart, activist and author

Pacific Voices

Susi Newborn among activists featured in Pacific ‘nuclear free heroes’ video

"Western media institutions promote a colonial narrative that reproduces the discourse of Israeli superiority, using linguistic and legal mechanisms to justify genocide."

Asia Report

Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative

The Cook Islands' outer islands, or Pa Enua, are emptying as people make the pilgrimage to Rarotonga for constitution celebrations

Cook Islands

Cook Islanders flock from outer islands for 60th anniversary celebrations

The first-ever US military flight carrying 18 Marshall Islanders deported from the United States by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrives at Majuro

Crime

ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base

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The first-ever US military flight carrying 18 Marshall Islanders deported from the United States by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrives at Majuro

Crime

ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base

"Western media institutions promote a colonial narrative that reproduces the discourse of Israeli superiority, using linguistic and legal mechanisms to justify genocide."

Asia Report

Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative

Stéphane Hessel was a leading member of the French Resistance

Analysis

Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses The Hague Group Summit

Analysis

12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá...

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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

The new New Zealand investment bill is convoluted and would significantly reduce effective scrutiny of foreign investments

Analysis

Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had...

Auckland protesters condemn Israel's systematic starvation tactics in the besieged Gaza enclave in a march in the Viaduct

Crime

PSNA calls on NZ to urgently condemn Israeli weaponisation of starvation

Porirua Cemetery manager Daniel Chrisp speaks at the Family Forum beside the chapel, as Mayor Anita Baker and whānau gather to honour 1800 patients buried in unmarked graves

Civil Society

Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels

Asia Report

Is the international community finally speaking up about Israel’s Gaza genocide?