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Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

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Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s conservative politics

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September 27, 2026

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape and the Solomon Islands leader Matthew Wale

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‘Stop empty promises’ – Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands leaders demand climate action

A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler

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From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of struggle for justice

The Al Jazeera Media Network has repeatedly and vehemently condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli military - and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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Palestine advocacy group criticises NZ failure over Gaza human rights test

Middlemore Hospital triage tent

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NZ government unveals its ‘traffic light’ covid-19 protection framework

October 22, 2021

Pacific beacon of hope

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Pasifika climate activist’s cry to COP: ‘We’re not drowning, we’re fighting’

November 2, 2021

Armed police with teargas masks on guard in Honiara

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Solomon Islands riots: Night-time curfew imposed in capital

November 27, 2021

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Ban the bomb: 70 years on, the nuclear threat looms as...

Pacific Media Centre -

August 6, 2015

UN report on Indonesia's "serious Papuan abuses"

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Australian group calls for action over UN Indonesian ‘Papuan abuses’ report

March 4, 2022

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The TPP: Why rush in where angels fear to tread?

January 15, 2016

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PNG Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers illegal

April 26, 2016

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UPNG suspends semester studies to take academic ‘breather’

May 25, 2016

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at Harvard

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‘Democracy can be fragile’: Ardern uses Harvard speech to call out...

May 27, 2022

Papua New Guinean police question a PNGDF soldier stationed at Pares

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PNG security forces on alert in Hela over ‘illegal army’ tip-off

June 25, 2022

An anti-monarchy protester being led away from the Palace of Westminster

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‘Not my king’: do we have the right to protest the...

September 17, 2022

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‘We shouldn’t rest on our laurels,’ warn NZ nuclear free activists

June 13, 2017

The funeral for former PNG prime minister Sir Rabbie Namaliu in Kokopo yesterday

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Rosso pays tribute to former PM Sir Rabbie’s ‘great legacy of...

April 14, 2023

The Porgera "killing fields" front page in the PNG Post-Courier yesterday

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Porgera mine ‘killing fields’ – 21 Papua New Guineans die since...

April 29, 2023

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Chinese president bound for PNG as controversy mounts over APEC 2018

November 15, 2018

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Bangsamoro Islamic troops choose peace via historic Philippines vote

January 22, 2019

ULMWP rally at Port Numbayy

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West Papuans will not ‘bow down’ to Indonesia over independence wish

October 23, 2020

Utu Workers

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May Day – time to reverse decades of relentless attacks on...

May 2, 2021

Tonga Health CEO Siale ‘Akau’ola

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Tonga’s first covid case tests ‘weak positive’ again after negative

November 5, 2021

New NZ National Party leader Christopher Luxon

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Ex-Air NZ chief Christopher Luxon voted new National Party leader

November 30, 2021

Former American priest Richard Daschbach

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Former priest, 82, jailed for 12 years over Timor-Leste child abuse

December 22, 2021

Covid-19 vaccinations in Noumea

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New Caledonia covid outbreak now approaching five figures

February 7, 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

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

“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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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

POPULAR POSTS

A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler

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From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Pacific leaders urge Jakarta to allow UN rights visit to West...

The new president of PINA, PNG's Neville Choi

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New PINA president pledges to strengthen Pacific newsrooms

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

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Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national coordinator John Minto and another protester at the New Zealand aerospace summit

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Police arrest two as protesters accused of blocking NZ aerospace summit

The Fijian Health Ministry predicts more than 3000 new cases will be reported this year

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Fiji approves ‘lifeline’ needle exchange law to combat HIV emergency

Human rights lawyer Muhammad Dahleh

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Palestinian-led parties in Israel face ‘institutional discrimination’, says lawyer

Earthjustice attorney David Henkin (left) and Rudy Bartley, a member of the nonprofit groups Faasao Amerika Samoa and Puipui Measina a Amerika Samoa

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American Samoa environmental group sues US govt over deep sea mining...

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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

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national coordinator John Minto and another protester at the New Zealand aerospace summit

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Police arrest two as protesters accused of blocking NZ aerospace summit

The Fijian Health Ministry predicts more than 3000 new cases will be reported this year

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Fiji approves ‘lifeline’ needle exchange law to combat HIV emergency

Human rights lawyer Muhammad Dahleh

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Palestinian-led parties in Israel face ‘institutional discrimination’, says lawyer

Earthjustice attorney David Henkin (left) and Rudy Bartley, a member of the nonprofit groups Faasao Amerika Samoa and Puipui Measina a Amerika Samoa

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American Samoa environmental group sues US govt over deep sea mining...