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In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free

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John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

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July 5, 2026

An artists' impression of the controversial Southland AI "data factory"

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Time to pull plug on power-hungry ‘bludger’ AI data centres, says CAFCA

Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally

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July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom built on bones of colonised’

Northern provincial President Paul Néaoutine, first elected in 1999, has been reelected

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Horse-trading in New Caledonia over provincial presidency elections

Minuteman III test launch, California

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Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

Roch Wamytan

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Kanaky New Caledonia could become ‘associated’ with France, says Wamytan

October 15, 2020

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Bryce Edwards: Ardern’s Labour government stands by as NZ social problems...

November 13, 2020

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Police Commissioner Andrew Coster

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PM Luxon’s security cut short visit ahead of Palestine protest

July 27, 2024

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape

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PNG’s Marape remains PM after no confidence vote against him fails

September 12, 2024

Chris Hipkins (left) and Dr Ashley Bloomfield

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NZ covid cases jump by 45 – but ‘we’re still aiming...

September 29, 2021

ndonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin

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Health officials detect 83 covid-19 cases at controversial Papuan Games

October 12, 2021

Western Province Premier David Gina

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Gina calls for return of death sentence after brutal killing...

October 22, 2021

Tina Stege, Climate Change Envoy of the Marshall Islands

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COP26 climate trip branded ‘junket’ – Prasad slams 36-strong Fiji team

November 16, 2021

Blazing house in the attack on Pai Police Barracks

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Post-Courier blasts Marape for Jakarta junket ‘while Tari burns’

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March 31, 2022

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Climate change action faces ‘fight’ with Big Oil, says McKibben

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February 17, 2016

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International students hit by UPNG suspension in response to protests

May 26, 2016

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Personal beliefs ‘shouldn’t rob women of choice’, says Ardern on Roe...

June 26, 2022

Independent journalist Raimundos Oki

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RSF criticises charges against Timor-Leste reporter over revealing minors given virginity...

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July 20, 2022

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PNG seabed mining an environment experiment based on ‘false hope’, say...

December 14, 2016

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Dan McGarry: Indonesia is slowly, slowly losing Melanesia

February 1, 2017

Māori and Pacific STEM postgraduates

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Māori and Pacific students ‘battle racism and tokenism’ at university

August 9, 2022

Voting in the Papua New Guinean national election

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Election 2022 a ‘wake-up call’ for PNG’s leaders, says watchdog

September 1, 2022

New Zealand's French Pacific territories Consul-General Felicity Roxburgh

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NZ consul hails long-standing ties with New Caledonia

September 20, 2022

Former NZ PM Richard Seddon (statue outside Parliament pictured)

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NZ has history of prominent public servants who were also outspoken...

March 9, 2023

NZ Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni

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NZ boosts support for ‘grassroots’ climate action in Solomon Islands

April 17, 2023

Palestinian-Kiwi children at the Nakba Day rally in Auckland's Aotea Square yesterday

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Nakba Day – 75 years of Palestinian statelessness, but also persistence

May 15, 2023

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Critics see Fiji’s Online Safety Act as ‘Trojan horse’ for online...

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January 23, 2019

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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

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

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...

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

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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 Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

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The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

Tonga's Permanent Representative to the UN Viliami Va'inga Tōnē (left)

China

Tonga ratifies nuclear test ban treaty amid China missile debacle

Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jnr

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Palau’s President warns of rising nuclear anxiety in the Pacific, after...

Minuteman III test launch, California

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Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

EDITOR'S PICKS

The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

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The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

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Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

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Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

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Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...

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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

The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

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The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

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Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

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Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

Tehran doesn't answer vulgarity with vulgarity

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‘They’re scum.’ F bombs and real bombs. Trump completely outclassed by...