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

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Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

October 25, 2026

PIF Secretary General Baron Divavesi Waqa welcomed Israel’s Ambassador to Fiji and Pacific Island Countries, Maya Yaron, and Head of MASHAV, Ambassador Eynat Shlein,

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Israel votes against decolonisation for Pacific at UN – then says it has become PIF partner

Asia Pacific Media Network

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

Fiji Deputy PM Viliame Gavoka

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Israel’s relationship with Pacific is ‘biblical, ageless, real’, says Fiji deputy PM

Gaza family tents as far as they eye can see

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NZ’s foreign policy obligation to confront Israel’s Gaza genocide

Candidate Michael Malabag

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Outgoing PNG minister challenges impartiality of officials in demand for fair...

June 22, 2022

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Wansolwara student journos report on West Papua human rights struggle

June 8, 2017

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Chaotic PNG election scene in Moresby with cancelled polling, 4 ‘arrests’

June 29, 2017

Fiji's former attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

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Fiji police suspend questioning of former AG Aiyaz in ‘hatred’ case

January 25, 2023

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UN human rights chief to send mission to investigate abuses in...

February 10, 2018

Colourful campaigning for French Polynesian elections

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French Polynesia election campaigning now in final week for Sunday’s vote

April 11, 2023

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (from left), PNG Prime Minister James Marape (standing) and Defence Minister Win Daki after signing the US-PNG defence cooperation pact in Port Moresby

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Blinken, Daki sign controversial US-PNG defence pact after day of protests

May 23, 2023

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Only two women elected in Solomon Islands – no new females

April 8, 2019

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PNG’s Pangu in turmoil – facing no MPs as no confidence...

May 1, 2019

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Student journos form ‘biggest newsroom’ to cover election

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May 20, 2019

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PNG police issue arrest warrant for former PM Peter O’Neill

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October 16, 2019

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Free speech? No it’s about bigots who seek the right to...

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March 23, 2020

Papuan students farewell Dr David Robie

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Gavin Ellis: The Pacific Media Centre must break free to survive

March 31, 2021

CI Health Secretary Bob Williams

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Wellington travellers to Rarotonga offloaded ‘in error’ over covid scare

June 26, 2021

NFP leader Dr Biman Prasad 070721

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Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits

July 7, 2021

A student protest in central Jakarta

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Student protests in Indonesia slam 7th year of Jokowi’s administration

October 24, 2021

Professor Nick Wilson

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NZ may need to tighten borders further to keep omicron at...

December 21, 2021

New Zealand's orange setting is relaxing mask requirements for schools

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NZ moves to orange: Experts respond to change in traffic light...

April 13, 2022

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‘Baseless accusations’ in Fiji police witchhunt, says former intelligence chief

April 3, 2016

The Anzac Day ceremony at the Wellington war memorial

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Anzac Day remembered at dawn services across the Pacific

April 25, 2022

NZ immigration policy

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NZ’s fast-track residency plans overlook Pacific, say Greens

May 17, 2022

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Student leader criticises drop in Papuan intake for admin school

July 8, 2016

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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

“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

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

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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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Senior journalist Salveen Chand, now with the Cook Islands News

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Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and...

The French and Kanak flags flying high

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New Caledonia pro-independence leaders boycott EU critical minerals deal

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

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Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

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The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

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Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

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Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

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The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

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Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

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Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

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

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Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

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Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini

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Gaza media: ‘Why we document history – even if accountability feels...