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Abahlali baseMjondolo co-founder and leader S’bu Zikode

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‘Emulate 1981’ Springbok tour solidarity over Palestine plea by South African activist

November 9, 2026

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

Opportunity Party leader Qiulae Wong

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From Lautoka to NZ parliament – the remarkable journey of Qiulae Wong

The public broadcaster RNZ this week announced a $11.8 million ﬁscal blowout

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Journalism educators call on crisis-hit RNZ not to slash newsroom staff

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‘A colossal mistake’ – Media Minister rules out coming to RNZ’s aid after budget blowout

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WCC mission criticises Papua rights violations in plea for ‘openness’

February 28, 2019

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AUT’s Pacific Media Watch ‘lighthouse’ role featured in freedom doco

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July 11, 2019

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

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March 23, 2020

The AUKUS controversy

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‘Don’t mistake Pacific leaders AUKUS quietness’ as support for NZ, says...

May 6, 2024

Elite 1 percenters

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We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts...

January 27, 2021

Krish Naidu

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NZ Girmit group fights for ‘Pacific’ classification for Fiji-Indians

March 23, 2021

Greenpeace's Amanda Larsson

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Climate Commission report gives NZ dairy industry ‘free pass to pollute’,...

June 10, 2021

A deserted central Auckland during August 2021 lockdown

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Ardern says Auckland to stay in lockdown for another week

September 13, 2021

NZ Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare

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‘Covid-19 is on the doorstep of your houses,’ warns Henare...

October 19, 2021

The funeral of two-year-old Nopelinus Sondegau

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AWPA protests over Canberra’s ‘lack of concern’ over West Papua crackdown

November 1, 2021

Australian Federal Police officers on peacekeeping duties in Honiara

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‘Don’t interfere’, Solomon Islands police tell opposition leader

December 5, 2021

Volcanic ash carpets Nomuka on Tonga's

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Tonga eruption: New Zealand sends two navy ships with supplies, water

January 18, 2022

At least two GP clinics and a pharmacy are among the casualties of the flooding in Lismore, northeast NSW

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After Australia’s floods, the distressing but necessary case for managed retreat

March 14, 2022

Support for President Francisco "Lú-Olo" Guterres

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Timor-Leste government parties back Lú-Olo’s return as president

March 28, 2022

Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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Step up efforts to free Assange after 3 years in jail,...

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April 11, 2022

NZ SeaRise maps website

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Cyber attack on NZ sea level website blamed on anti-climate critics...

May 2, 2022

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Millions of Filipinos troop to the polls to decide Duterte’s successor

May 9, 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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John Key to make first NZ prime minister visit to Fiji...

May 26, 2016

Women in Australian cabinet

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Australia has more women in cabinet than ever before: what difference...

June 2, 2022

Seven containers seized by PNG police

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PNG police stop seven trucks and seize ‘sensitive’ election materials

June 27, 2022

Indigenous flags of NZ and Australia

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Colonial ideas have kept NZ and Australia in a rut of...

August 22, 2022

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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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Abahlali baseMjondolo co-founder and leader S’bu Zikode

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The Naoero Parliament in Yaren

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NZ Palestine solidarity activist Janfrie Wakim

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New Zealand Green MP and Cook Islander Teanau Tuiono in Rarotonga

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Pacific MPs across political spectrum pledge to work hard for ‘our...

RNZ Checkpoint's Lisa Owen interviewing outgoing CEO Paul Thompson this week

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RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson announces early departure from organisation

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

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Pacific MPs across political spectrum pledge to work hard for ‘our...

RNZ Checkpoint's Lisa Owen interviewing outgoing CEO Paul Thompson this week

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RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson announces early departure from organisation

Potential new prime minister Gadi Eisenkot

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