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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

Asia Pacific Media Network

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

I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide

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Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts of this cruel world who won’t call a genocide a genocide. Vote them...

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi with her 95-year-old grandfather in Hebron

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PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian grandfather evicted in Hebron

Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini

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

PNG police search for the notorious “Het Wara” gang

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PNG church workers plead for more police help to end gang...

December 22, 2021

People in Wellington's Civic Square protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine

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Ukraine, covid mandate protesters compete for attention in NZ’s capital

February 27, 2022

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Indonesian ‘tolerance’ under strain as anti-LGBT furore grows

April 7, 2016

Solomon Islands capital Honiara

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US issues vague warning ‘to respond’ if China builds military base...

April 27, 2022

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Stop arresting indigenous Papuans plea to Indonesia

May 4, 2016

Hopeful PNG women politicians at a recent health workshop

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Election of women to PNG Parliament crucial for future, says economist

June 29, 2022

An image from the cover of the new West Papua report

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Researchers warn of growing potential for mass killings in Papua region

July 23, 2022

Russia's Kremlin in Moscow

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Russia bars entry to 32 New Zealanders in sanctions response

July 31, 2022

PNG Chief Ombudsman Richard Pagen

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Kramer ‘ambushes’ PNG’s chief ombudsman, challenges integrity

August 23, 2022

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Trump puts Indonesia on ‘cheating foreign importers’ hit list

April 5, 2017

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Rave hospitality, but Indonesia fails West Papua with media freedom hypocrisy

May 7, 2017

Facebook's "Great Algorithm Machine"

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Michael Field: Freedom at midday – stories from Facebook prison

Pacific Media Watch -

September 22, 2022

Mangareva Atoll, population 1500

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French Polynesian atolls still wary decades after nuclear tests

October 18, 2022

Incoming Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka on TVNZ News

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Fijians have ‘chosen a new way, a new path’ under Rabuka,...

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December 20, 2022

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Lord Tuʻivakanō breaks silence over why king dissolved Parliament

August 29, 2017

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Vanuatu court orders release of ‘wanted’ Fiji man, seeks papers

June 1, 2018

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NZ teacher ‘superheroes’ call for a better deal in first strike...

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August 15, 2018

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Prasad confident NFP could be in Fiji’s post-election government

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September 11, 2018

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Amnesty calls on Fiji election parties, candidates to uphold human rights

November 11, 2018

ULMWP president Benny Wenda (left) at a prayer vigil and flag-raising in Suva

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Pacific churches reaffirm support for West Papua MSG membership bid

July 17, 2023

It is important politically and economically for New Zealand to have trading relations with both G7 and developing countries

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Ian Powell: Context of the ‘New Washington Consensus’ and China ‘threat’...

August 29, 2023

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Drug problem in Philippines has ‘worsened’, admits Duterte

March 26, 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

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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

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PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi with her 95-year-old grandfather in Hebron

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NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

Another four years of far-right rule would pose an immediate threat to Palestinian communities and their rights inside Israel

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Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any...

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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Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

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Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

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NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

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Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

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Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

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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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Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

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Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

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NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

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Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

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Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...