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Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June

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Eugene Doyle: Jesus wept – Pacific Forum endorses Israel and genocide

November 5, 2026

Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon

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Caitlin Johnstone: Israel claims it had nothing to do with Trump’s decision to attack Iran . . . and other notes

“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

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Shameful Israel move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

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‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits back after Netanyahu’s attacks during UN speech

The Global March for Palestine in Auckland on October 10

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How freedom of expression and democracy are denied in Aotearoa when it comes to genocidal Israel

PNG training includes the definition of public interest journalism

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PNG public interest journalism training – ‘why we’re doing it’

Pacific Media Watch -

April 13, 2024

Palestinian NZ women speaking at the Gaza ceasefire rally

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End this ‘cruel, barbaric use of force’ on Gaza – WILPF...

May 7, 2024

Green Party MP Teanau Tuiono

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NZ Samoa citizenship bill: Committee receives 24,000 plus public submissions

June 21, 2024

Fiji Women's Rights Movement executive director Nalini Singh

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Nalini Singh calls for media coverage that ‘reflects realities of all...

July 13, 2024

Policed bomb disposal unit in Honiara

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Fatal Solomon Is blast highlights key threat in country littered with...

May 11, 2021

Cook Islands PM Mark Brown

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Cook Islands PM calls for easing of tensions in New Caledonia

November 2, 2024

Fiji lawyer Richard Naidu 250621

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Fiji government must give ‘critical’ covid-19 crisis timeline, says lawyer

June 25, 2021

Auckland mayor Phil Goff

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Auckland mayor Phil Goff calls NZ anti-lockdown protesters ‘stupid’

November 13, 2021

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TPP out of step with human rights – don’t sign, says...

February 3, 2016

Lae's Metropolitan Superintendent Chris Kunyanban

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Lae police chief calls on state agencies, NGOs to tackle illegal...

March 30, 2022

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Catastrophic glacial meltdown big global risk, says researcher

Thomas Leaycraft -

February 15, 2016

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PNG Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers illegal

April 26, 2016

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RSF calls for end to PNG police violence against journalists

Pacific Media Watch -

June 10, 2016

Māori taonga at Gisborne Airport

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Gisborne district councillor hits out over lack of Māori leadership

June 13, 2022

Voters looking for their names as Papua New Guinea went to the polls

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Papua New Guinea goes to the polls amid controversy over missing...

July 5, 2022

PNG Police Commissioner David Manning

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Marape condemns killing of PNG policeman, says sorry to family

November 1, 2022

PNG's Justice Secretary Dr Eric Kwa

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PNG government’s top legal adviser charged over ‘dangerous’ road death

February 9, 2023

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PNG Facebook ban threat casts shadow over Pacific media freedom

Pacific Media Centre -

August 9, 2018

Prime Ministers Sitiveni Rabuka of Fiji (left) and Chris Hipkins of New Zealand

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Hipkins grants Fiji $11m in climate crisis aid as Rabuka renews...

June 8, 2023

New Zealand's public broadcaster RNZ is launching a review into wire news edits

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Donna Miles-Mojab: Is there such a thing as unbiased reporting?

Pacific Media Watch -

June 22, 2023

Vanuatu's two biggest stories today as presented by the Vanuatu Daily Post this morning

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Vanuatu Supreme Court rules in favour of opposition in Parliament majority...

August 25, 2023

Goro stand-off

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Tension rises in New Caledonia over Brazilian miner Vale’s bail out...

December 11, 2020

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

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Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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

Asia Report

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

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APJS NEWSFILE

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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Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins

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Hipkins accuses National Party of ‘manipulating’ NZ’s electoral system

Al-Abd Abu Beid prepares a meal of lentils from food rations distributed by the World Food Programme

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‘This is catastrophic’ – Gaza hit hard by UN food cuts...

Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

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‘Foreign agency’ – Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal is a US...

Opportunity Party leader Qiulae Wong

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A knife-edge result, three possible outcomes – what comes next after...

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Julian Assange's 2017 prediction

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Caitlin Johnstone: They want to use AI to re-centralise control of...

Türkye is hosting the COP31 climate talks from 9-20 November in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya

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COP31 opens in Türkiye as global temperature flirts with 1.5°C line

Of the nearly 210 journalists killed in Gaza and Lebanon between October 2023 and October 2026, at least 71 were targeted or killed by Israeli soldiers in connection with their work

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Israeli military violence soars – 24 times as many journalists killed,...

Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins

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Hipkins accuses National Party of ‘manipulating’ NZ’s electoral system

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

Jacinda Ardern

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Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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Julian Assange's 2017 prediction

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Caitlin Johnstone: They want to use AI to re-centralise control of...

Türkye is hosting the COP31 climate talks from 9-20 November in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya

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COP31 opens in Türkiye as global temperature flirts with 1.5°C line

Of the nearly 210 journalists killed in Gaza and Lebanon between October 2023 and October 2026, at least 71 were targeted or killed by Israeli soldiers in connection with their work

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Israeli military violence soars – 24 times as many journalists killed,...

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‘A colossal mistake’ – Media Minister rules out coming to RNZ’s...