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Ambassador Sidharto Reza Suryodipuro

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Indonesia accused of being ‘unfit’ for UN rights council presidency

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Adelaide Writers' Week Festival Board members who resigned

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Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

A potential pathway for transformative change in Indonesia, aiming to forge a new social contract for Papuans

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Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation

Palestine advocate Leeann Wahanui-Peters

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Israel accused over ‘shameful whitewashing’ bid to sanitise soldier holidays in NZ

Executive director of B’Tselem Yuli Novak

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Israeli society has ‘become completely genocidal’, says B’Tselem head

ICE agents in Minneapolis after the shooting of Renee Good last week

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From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent...

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Iranian security forces keep watch on a rally in Tehran.

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Israel tries to drag US into ‘fighting wars on its behalf,’...

January 15, 2026

FLNKS president Christian Tein (centre) with Arnaud Chollet-Leakava and Laurie Humuni

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FLNKS boycotts Macron-convened Paris talks over future this week

January 14, 2026

Tehran mural . . . a massive Vali Asr Square image of the pro-government national protests

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Iran protests – why this upheaval is fundamentally different from 1979

January 14, 2026

"Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships"

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Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror

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January 13, 2026

Donald Trump's abduction of Nicolás Maduro will make the world less safe

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Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnap of Maduro...

January 6, 2026

China's ambassador to Samoa Fei Mingxing (left) hands over a ceremonial cheque for US$200,000 to SPREP director of legal services and governing bodies Aumua Clark Peteru in Apia

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China matches US contribution to Pacific environmental body a week after...

January 15, 2026

"Terror on Bondi Beach" last month

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Ian Powell: Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective

January 15, 2026

The Iranian protests

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Eugene Doyle: Iran in the vortex – what’s really going on...

January 16, 2026

An Australian protest rally and march on the South Australian Parliament

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Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism...

January 9, 2026

Marian Rivera as Mirama

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Evening star rising: Girlhood in the Aeta heartlands of the Philippines

January 16, 2026

Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right

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Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with...

January 6, 2026

French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

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FLNKS sends in late request to join Paris talks on New...

January 16, 2026

Fiji Airways Airbus A330 cabin

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Bonds, blockings and bans – a massive new-year US shakeup for...

January 17, 2026

A West Papuan mother, Kapusina Gwijangge, was shot by the Indonesian military in Nduga on 25 March 2019

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Author condemns Canberra ‘collusion’ with Jakarta on West Papua atrocities

July 6, 2023

Sāmoan Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt

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Sāmoa set to become third Pacific nation to open Jerusalem embassy

January 11, 2026

Asia Pacific Media Network

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APMN calls for ‘urgent rethink’ over PNG draft media regulation plan

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February 20, 2023

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Bryce Edwards: NZ’s craven stance on the US invasion of Venezuela

January 7, 2026

The Israeli version of shock and awe has long been a default policy

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A war without headlines: Israel’s shock-and-awe campaign in the West Bank

January 18, 2026

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong

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NGOs warn of catastrophic impact in Gaza – Penny Wong doesn’t...

January 10, 2026

Palestinian academic Sameer Barghouthi

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With the Gaza genocide, the world changed – sovereignty died and...

January 5, 2026

Part of the vandalism outside human rights activist John Minto's home

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Photos of attack on Palestine activist’s property ‘censored’ by Facebook

January 8, 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

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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

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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

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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The Israeli version of shock and awe has long been a default policy

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

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

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Pro-France MPs confront Macron over New Caledonia at future talks

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