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Gazan journalists calling for open access to the besieged Palestinian enclave . . . more than 200 journalists and media freedom groups signed a petition demanding free media access and protection for Palestinan media workers

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Al Jazeera abruptly terminates contracts of Palestinian journalists in Gaza in ongoing Israeli genocide

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August 2, 2026

The Daily Blog has been served legal directives

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The Daily Blog: We have secretly been taken to court and I’m facing 6 months in prison: We can’t tell you who, how, why...

A lack of scrutiny and action from the international community, including New Zealand, is allowing illegal atrocities to continue in Gaza

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NZ’s shameful silence on Gaza is potentially complicity with genocide

Zionist lawyer Yehuda Shimon

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Caitlin Johnstone: All mainstream Western institutions view Palestinian lives as worthless

These "Legally censored - Redacted" lines now replace headlines over two Daily Blog editorials published prior to today's Auckland District Court hearing

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Gagged NZ editor’s ‘free speech’ case adjourned as judge warns Daily Blog over ‘contempt’ risk

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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

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NZ protesters lock gates of Australian High Commission in Manus protest

November 14, 2017

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Tributes flow for NZ’s Arab Spring journalist Yasmine Ryan

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December 14, 2017

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Rainbow Warrior takes on fresh eco mission to Papua, Indonesia

March 13, 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

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Indonesian military joint plan for greater role in counterterrorism

May 21, 2018

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PNG students in China say Facebook move is ‘irrelevant’ and damaging

Pacific Media Watch -

May 30, 2018

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Vanuatu seeks Forum support for West Papua, but kept off outcomes...

August 11, 2018

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Kanaky independence campaign rolls on … encouraged by ballot result

November 8, 2018

The NZ Council of Trade Unions' controversial front page advocacy ad in The New Zealand Herald

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NZ election 2023: Political advocacy angst as campaign begins – officially

Pacific Media Watch -

September 10, 2023

The male dormitory under renovation in UPNG's School of Medicine and Health Science

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Work in progress for PNG’s medical school – fast-tracked after protest

September 23, 2023

French TV crew arrested

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RSF demands Australian police drop charges against French TV crew

Pacific Media Watch -

July 23, 2019

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Accused Papuans ‘flew Morning Star flag’, police chief tells Jakarta court

Pacific Media Watch -

February 5, 2020

NZ health Minister Chris Hipkins

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NZ covid-19 update: More coronavirus cases linked to Auckland cluster

August 14, 2020

Solomon Islands Chief Electoral Officer Jasper Anisi told RNZ Pacific all elections materials have been distributed and the country is ready to go to the polls

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Let the games begin – coalition negotiations underway in Honiara

April 17, 2024

A FijiFirst hoarding during the 2022 general election

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FijiFirst party founders Voreqe Bainimarama, Sayed-Khaiyum and others resign in shock...

June 10, 2024

NFP leader Dr Biman Prasad 070721

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

July 7, 2021

Greenpeace protest

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Reporting Greenpeace to police shows KPK has become authoritarian, says watchdog

July 23, 2021

Ni Kadek Vany Primaliraning

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Bali legal aid director cited for ‘treason’ after assisting Papuan protesters

August 7, 2021

Mt Eden Prison

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NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’

September 7, 2021

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Lobbying intensifies to form next Vanuatu government

February 4, 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

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

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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

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...

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...

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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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Trump's bluster works once

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When Trump’s Iran ‘deal’ isn’t a deal – it’s the third...

112 members of two Palestinian families - Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia - have been buried in Gaza

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Gaza genocide: Mourning the 112 victims of two families of Israeli...

Pacific Islands Forum member flags

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Pacific foreign ministers to discuss Solomons’ idea for regional security treaty

Zionist lawyer Yehuda Shimon

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Caitlin Johnstone: All mainstream Western institutions view Palestinian lives as worthless

EDITOR'S PICKS

Counsel Assisting before Commissioner Virginia Bell

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Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’

The Democrat voters chose Dr Abdul El-Sayed because he’s a fighter

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El-Sayed’s Michigan primary win against tyranny a good omen for a...

Pacific Islands Forum member flags

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Pacific foreign ministers to discuss Solomons’ idea for regional security treaty

International justice advocate Craig Mokhiber

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Self defence action by Iran ‘first truly consequential action’ by state,...

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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

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Counsel Assisting before Commissioner Virginia Bell

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Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’

The Democrat voters chose Dr Abdul El-Sayed because he’s a fighter

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El-Sayed’s Michigan primary win against tyranny a good omen for a...

Pacific Islands Forum member flags

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Pacific foreign ministers to discuss Solomons’ idea for regional security treaty

International justice advocate Craig Mokhiber

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Self defence action by Iran ‘first truly consequential action’ by state,...