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Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel

May 20, 2026

Israeli embassy controversy in Wellington

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Solve ‘genocide embassy’ issue – expel Israeli ambassador, says PSNA

President David Panuelo of the Federated States of Micronesia

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China documents threaten Pacific sovereignty, warns FSM president

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

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West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gloating in the Gaza flotilla detainees video

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Peters condemns Israeli minister over flotilla video as 3 Kiwis detained

BS-CBN supporters

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Top Philippines TV network told to close under Duterte pressure

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May 6, 2020

NZ armed police

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NZ police scrapping Armed Response Teams after trial, says commissioner

June 9, 2020

University of the South Pacific

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USP staff slam Fiji’s freezing of F$28m grant as holding university...

September 26, 2020

An unknown Papuan artist's depiction of the graphic torture videos

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OPM’s Bomanak accuses UN of failing to uphold decolonisation role over...

May 2, 2024

NZ Referendum

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NZ referendum preliminary results – yes to euthanasia reform, no...

October 31, 2020

Theo Hesegem

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Dear President Widodo, be honest with Papua about the military...

March 16, 2021

Bombing of Gaza 2021

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Gaza conflict: No matter how powerful Israel’s military becomes it still...

May 20, 2021

Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre co-ordinator Shamima Ali

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Sayed-Khaiyum leading Fiji into chaos, says women’s crisis centre leader

July 4, 2021

Tappoos warehouse fire, Fiji 010821

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Fiji police warn public against violence and ‘fake profiles’ after two...

August 3, 2021

Tuila'epa Dr Sailele Malielegaoi

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Samoa Observer: The ‘failed state’ fallacy and HRPP propaganda

August 15, 2021

Samoan Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa

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Samoa’s PM Fiame sacks AG over ‘lack of public trust’

September 3, 2021

French police on patrol in Noumea's central Place des Cocotiers

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New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256

September 14, 2021

The Future of Work in Journalism screenshot

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MEAA calls for halt to ‘slow erosion’ of media to safeguard...

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November 1, 2021

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at Mangere

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PM Ardern in Auckland, AstraZeneca vaccine now available – 147 new...

November 10, 2021

Media coverage of pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis' plight

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Pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis offered a place in MIQ

February 2, 2022

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Global media groups urge Timor-Leste PM to drop defamation case

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April 22, 2016

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Duterte pulls off huge Philippines win, Marcos trailing narrowly

May 11, 2016

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More women in Solomon Islands politics — how it needs to...

June 9, 2017

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20 years on, the disturbing case of journalist ‘JPK’ is still...

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December 16, 2017

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Tommy Suharto: Indonesians are ‘longing’ for return to Suharto rule

May 22, 2018

PNG Corrections officers

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PNG authorities try to quell unrest after 16 prisoners on run...

April 27, 2023

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Elizabeth Cox: Bring back a revitalised Radio Australia to all rural...

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August 4, 2018

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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

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...

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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PNG's Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

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New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women...

A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home

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Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

Olivia Coote presents a welcome home koha to Global Sumud Flotilla activists Mousa Taher (centre) and Hāhona Ormsby (black cap) at Auckland International Airport

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Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal...

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Israel is ‘doing a Ukraine’ in Lebanon but world stays silent,...

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Climate activist Violet Coco

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‘Israel wanted to shame us, but the shame is Israel’s,’ says...

New Zealand Gaza flotilla supporters welcome home two Kiwi activists from brutal Israeli detention at the weekend

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Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s...

Moana Pasifika head coach Tana Umaga sings and dances along to a cultural song after Saturday's Super Rugby Pacific Round 15 match

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‘We always stay hopeful’, says Umaga on Moana Pasifika’s future

Cuban doctors arriving back from Italy following the covid outbreak in 2020

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The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...

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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

Climate activist Violet Coco

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‘Israel wanted to shame us, but the shame is Israel’s,’ says...

New Zealand Gaza flotilla supporters welcome home two Kiwi activists from brutal Israeli detention at the weekend

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Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s...

Cuban doctors arriving back from Italy following the covid outbreak in 2020

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The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...

Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Kalani Kaneko (second from right) has been leading advocacy for island US military veterans

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Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive