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A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism

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Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

July 20, 2026

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago

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‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed over ignoring plea

Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

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Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

The only sensible stance is to stand against the carnage

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Saige England: Call out the Zionist hypocrisy – genociders are settler colonialists on steroids

The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World

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Saige England: A tale of power being taken from the people and handed to predator companies

Disputed Hunter Island

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Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

July 15, 2026

"FBI Director Kash Patel sounds super stoked about the chance to become a 21st century J Edgar Hoover"

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Caitlin Johnstone: They’re launching a new COINTELPRO for the 21st century

July 18, 2026

PNG Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and Minister for Environment Conservation and Climate Change Minister Wera Mori

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Almost K6m COP26 bill for PNG climate delegation shocks nation

November 6, 2021

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

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Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

July 16, 2026

PNAG's Joey Tau in Honiara

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Has the Pacific’s Ocean of Peace concept been hijacked?

July 17, 2026

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

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NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

July 15, 2026

Iranian missile attack on US base in Jordan

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Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted...

July 20, 2026

The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral

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How Tehran turned Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral into a media event

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July 15, 2026

Fiji's Labour Party leader and a former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry

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‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged...

July 16, 2026

In her evidence before the Bondi Royal Commission, the antisemitism envoy Jillian Segel claimed

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It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to...

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July 17, 2026

The United States bombed Iran over a toll

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Lim Tean: The Hormuz ‘guardian’ turns pirate – 20% for tribute

July 14, 2026

Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya

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NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead...

July 17, 2026

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

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The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

July 15, 2026

Healthcare workers protest in Melbourne

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‘Intolerable pressure’ – inside the Israel lobby campaign to coerce regulators...

July 17, 2026

Indonesian military forces on patrol in the Oksop regency

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Indonesia defends high number of military deployed in Papua

July 6, 2026

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Nauru president accuses Fiji group of ‘hijacking’ USP in vendetta

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June 10, 2020

Children in Gaza have paid tribute to Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

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Sheikh Hamad: The Arab leader who broke Israel’s siege on Gaza

July 14, 2026

Disappeared Pesta Babi star Yasinta Moiwend - Mama Sinta

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Indonesia has ‘kidnapped’ Pesta Babi star to cover up ecocide, claims...

June 3, 2026

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

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Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

July 10, 2026

Minuteman III test launch, California

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Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

July 7, 2026

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group

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MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for...

August 26, 2023

President Trump's so-called "Board of Peace"

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Gaza’s future stuck in diplomatic limbo as ‘Board of Peace’ blocks...

July 6, 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...

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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

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...

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

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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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Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

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A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism

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Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

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

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Look at this image. The thin white lines are what remains of the world’s most important oil artery - the Strait of Hormuz

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Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar...

A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism

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Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

Fiji, Samoa and Tonga all lost their rugby international games at the weekend

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All Blacks shine at Eden Park while Fiji, Samoa and Tonga...

Iranian missile attack on US base in Jordan

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