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Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers

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‘We want legitimate leaders’: Bougainvilleans head to the polls amid push for independence

September 5, 2025

Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son

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Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"

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Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) held bilateral discussions with the United Nations Secretary-General

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UN chief to address PNG parliament today during ‘historic’ visit

A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel

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Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear of the Zionists. It is far worse’

Dr Anthony Bellanger, the French general-secretary of the Brussels-based International FeDeration of Journalists, talks to Al Jazeera in an interview today on the death toll of Gazan journalists

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250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 1, 2025

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Fijian PM Rabuka hints at ‘historic’ referendum after landmark court ruling

September 1, 2025

Palestinian activist Nadine Mortaja announces the planned "March for Humanity"

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Police plan for march which will shut Auckland Harbour Bridge this...

September 1, 2025

Indonesian security forces fire tear gas to quell protests at Manokwari

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West Papuan civil society groups protest over brutal security forces crackdown...

September 1, 2025

Former NZ politician Aupito Tofae Su'a William Sio

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‘Huge relief’ in Samoa post snap general election, says Aupito

August 31, 2025

Filipino media "influencers" complicit in Israeli propaganda programme

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How two Filipino ‘journalists’ took part in Israeli whitewashing of genocide

August 31, 2025

Thousands of Bougainvilleans flocked to the polls on 23 November 2019 to vote in the referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea

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Bougainville 2025 election: What’s at stake?

August 31, 2025

Samoa's Electoral Commissioner Toleafoa Tuiafelolo Alexander Stanley briefing the media on election day

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Samoa snap election: No results just yet, says electoral commissioner

August 30, 2025

Columnist Gordon Campbell

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Two state, deluded state – shuffling of the deck isn’t stopping...

August 29, 2025

New Zealand protesters carrying symbolic bodies of journalists assassinated by the Israeli military in Gaza

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There is a plot Mr Luxon: It’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians...

August 29, 2025

Indonesian security forces clash with West Papuan protesters in Manokwari, Sorong, today

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Wenda accuses Indonesia of killing West Papuans for ‘independence’ day

August 29, 2025

More than 100,000 registered voters are heading to the polls to decide Samoa's next government.

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Polls open in Samoa’s 2025 general election with one seat declared

August 29, 2025

Going . . . going . . . the dual French and Kanaky flags on New Caledonian driving licences

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French Overseas Minister pushes ahead with Bougival deal despite FLNKS snub

August 28, 2025

New Zealand protesters over the Israeli killings of Palestinian journalists in Gaza carry symbolic bodies

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NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 28, 2025

RNZ’s diminishing linear radio audience has to be understood in context

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A ‘scathing’ report on RNZ’s performance obscures the good news –...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 27, 2025

Incumbent Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama

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Bougainville’s President Ishmael Toroama candid and relaxed a week out from...

August 27, 2025

Assisting the elderly at Samoan pre-polling

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Samoa general election: Pre-polling kicks off

August 27, 2025

Sydney journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory

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Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists

Pacific Media Watch -

August 27, 2025

The UN General Assembly

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New Zealand challenged to vote for Israel’s suspension at UN

August 27, 2025

Al Jazeera journalist Hind Khoudary

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Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 26, 2025

Resigned Reuters photographer Valerie Zink

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Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza

Pacific Media Watch -

August 26, 2025

France's High Commission in Nouméa

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French PM’s confidence vote hits New Caledonia’s political negotiations

August 26, 2025

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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

Analysis

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

Coronavirus

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

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

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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

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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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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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Dr Anthony Bellanger, the French general-secretary of the Brussels-based International FeDeration of Journalists, talks to Al Jazeera in an interview today on the death toll of Gazan journalists

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Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers

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‘We want legitimate leaders’: Bougainvilleans head to the polls amid push...

Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son

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Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....

Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"

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Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) held bilateral discussions with the United Nations Secretary-General

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UN chief to address PNG parliament today during ‘historic’ visit