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Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

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Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green MP

July 31, 2026

Te Tinihanga o Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti

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NZ tribunal finds Treaty reforms breach Te Tiriti principles, prejudice Māori, damage Māori-Crown relationship

Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sailele Mallielegaoi

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World Rugby says no ultimatum given to Samoa over governance fiasco

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

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Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

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The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate way

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

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Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...

July 30, 2026

Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

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Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton...

July 30, 2026

An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed

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Human Rights Watch report says Indonesia is silencing environmental activists in...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 30, 2026

Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan

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PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor...

July 27, 2026

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

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Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

July 27, 2026

The International Court of Justice in The Hague

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Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on...

July 26, 2026

PSNA flyers supporting Palestine

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Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru...

July 26, 2026

Fiji's Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC)

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Fiji’s former chief prosecutor claims govt conspiracy to remove him

July 25, 2026

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

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Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel

July 25, 2026

Iranian Ambassador to New Zealand Reza Nazar Ahari

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Iranian Ambassador: Why the US blundered so badly – diplomacy and...

July 25, 2026

Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and rightwing Israelis under military protection storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque

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Palestine Forum of NZ condemns ‘provocative’ Israeli assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque,...

July 24, 2026

Tehran's parliamentary Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf

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Lim Tean: Iran’s Ghalibaf warns US war equation is clear –...

July 24, 2026

Dr Anna Naupa

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Vanuatu govt blasts chiefs’ demand to replace first female MSG head...

July 24, 2026

The world spent 40 years building an oil reserves shock absorber for exactly this war

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The illegal US war on Iran – and now the economic...

July 23, 2026

Lyttelton local and environmental campaigner Sara Campbell

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Saige England: Capitalism. Colonialism. Why the DP World money trail leads...

July 23, 2026

The Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs

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Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre blasts ‘misogynistic attack’ over MSG leadership

July 23, 2026

Reverend James Bhagwan, general secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches

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Nauru’s government announces plans for embassy in Israel

July 23, 2026

A Nile crocodile, the creature to be deployed in Israel's Ketziot Prison moat

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Media avoids Israel’s sadism like a crocodile-infested moat

July 22, 2026

Filipino National Bureau of Investigation Director Melvin Matibag takes an oath before testifying

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Sara Duterte impeachment trial – Matibag says no hitman yet, but...

July 22, 2026

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

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Why the Trump administration is running scared of the global criminal...

July 22, 2026

Professor Vijay Naidu

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Fiji universities criticised for ‘great shame’ of ignoring coup impacts

July 22, 2026

The International Criminal Court in The Hague

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NZ called on to back international law in ICC vote –...

July 21, 2026

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

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COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

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

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

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Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

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

BEARING WITNESS

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

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Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

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Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

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Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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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.

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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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

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Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green...

Te Tinihanga o Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti

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NZ tribunal finds Treaty reforms breach Te Tiriti principles, prejudice Māori,...

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

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Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

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

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Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

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Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green...

Te Tinihanga o Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti

Politics

NZ tribunal finds Treaty reforms breach Te Tiriti principles, prejudice Māori,...

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

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Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

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The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...