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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

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‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits back after Netanyahu’s attacks during UN speech

September 25, 2026

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

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

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 makeshift West Papuan refugee camp in Puncak Regency after dozens of villagers were displaced from their community by armed conflict in February

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‘They just have to get out’ – civilians pay the price for West Papua conflict

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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Palestine advocacy group criticises NZ failure over Gaza human rights test

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

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Chief magistrate rejects arrest bid in Vanuatu conspiracy case

February 1, 2016

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Landmark NZ climate change conference opens to ‘unite Pacific’

February 15, 2016

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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‘I will not resign,’ O’Neill tells PNG students in 10-page letter

May 24, 2016

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Gallery: Peaceful protest scenes end in police crackdown at UPNG

June 8, 2016

Papua New Guinean security forces

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PNG troops still await deployment orders for election security

June 10, 2022

Candidate Michael Malabag

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Outgoing PNG minister challenges impartiality of officials in demand for fair...

June 22, 2022

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UST journalism teams up with Asia Pacific Report coverage on Philippines

February 15, 2017

Minister for Overseas Territories Jean-Francois Carenco

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‘Find a solution’ to the Kanaky political impasse, Macron told new...

September 14, 2022

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CPJ condemns attack on Afghan state television — at least 6...

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May 18, 2017

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Chaotic PNG election scene in Moresby with cancelled polling, 4 ‘arrests’

June 29, 2017

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‘Don’t run to courts’ over every PNG electoral row, judge says...

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July 14, 2017

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Global refugee crisis solution ‘up to all of us’, says filmmaker...

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September 10, 2017

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Sylvester Gawi: PNG journalism and the challenge of the ‘kaikai man’

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April 28, 2018

Colourful campaigning for French Polynesian elections

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French Polynesia election campaigning now in final week for Sunday’s vote

April 11, 2023

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Duterte says as ‘parent of nation,’ he can order detention of...

June 23, 2018

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Shortwave radio saves lives and foreign aid dollars, says McGarry

August 4, 2018

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NZ Law Society elects first Pasifika woman as president in ‘sea...

October 24, 2018

Porgera goldmine . . . in April, tribal violence led to the closure of schools and businesses

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‘Let your children live in peace’ plea by PNG’s Marape over...

July 24, 2023

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Nauru 19 to appear in first sitting of nation’s new Court...

November 29, 2018

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

February 28, 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

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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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A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

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Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

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...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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

EDITOR'S PICKS

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...

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...

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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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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...

Temukisa Auina Penehuro Hauma

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Tuvalu appoints first woman governor-general ahead of 48th Independence Day