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Several candidates from different parties have spoken out about being targeted

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NZ elections 2023: Green Party, Te Pāti Māori call out ‘harmful emboldening of extremism’

September 30, 2023

Te Pati Māori candidate Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke

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NZ election 2023: Police investigate after invasion of Te Pāti Māori candidate’s home

Tortured 19-year-old Gira Gwijangge

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Indonesian police raid church office, home in Nduga – arrest six, torture 12

Declassified Australia

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Media targeting public for a war with China, warns Declassified Australia

Papua's former Governor Lukas Enembe in court

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Former Papuan governor Enembe’s corruption trial ends – verdict soon

Since becoming established in Fiji in 2014, the South Korean-founded cult Grace Road has expanded

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Korean doomsday sect Grace Road saga deepens with leader in...

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September 11, 2023

Paiute-speaking First Nations language advocate Christina Dawa Kutsmana Thomas

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Te reo Māori inspires Native American to save her own indigenous...

September 11, 2023

PNG Prime Minister James Marape at the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) summit in Port Vila

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PNG leader Marape denies Papua human rights comments were his

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September 11, 2023

Fiji police officers Corporal Gerry McGoon (on left) and PC Sevania Manulevu on foot patrol along Victoria Parade in Suva

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The Fiji Times: We need to work together in the war...

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September 10, 2023

The NZ Council of Trade Unions' controversial front page advocacy ad in The New Zealand Herald

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NZ election 2023: Political advocacy angst as campaign begins – officially

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September 10, 2023

Fiji Immigration Minister Pio Tikoduadua (left) and Grace Road group Fiji president Daniel Kim

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Fiji immigration officials detain Grace Road cult leader Daniel Kim

September 8, 2023

Northern Governor Gary Juffa's law and order message

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Stamping out ‘local terrorism’ a high priority for PNG, says Governor...

September 8, 2023

PNG Prime Minister James Marape meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo

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Marape claims PNG has ‘no right’ to criticise abuses in West...

September 8, 2023

Grace Road cult court order

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Interpol ‘red notices’ against 7 Grace Road cult figures, but court...

September 8, 2023

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem

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Palestine furious at PNG Prime Minister opening embassy in Jerusalem

September 8, 2023

Nonga Hospital in East New Britain

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Rabaul hospital’s morgue out of service for five years – funding...

September 7, 2023

Co-chairs Nina Santos and Father Henry Rogo of the Te Ohu founding assembly last night

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NZ election 2023: ‘People power’ alliance wins pledge of 1000 new...

September 7, 2023

Vanuatu Prime Minister Sato Kilman

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Vanuatu’s Kilman warns against ‘misuse’ of freedom of speech, threats and...

September 7, 2023

Former ULMWP president Benny Wenda

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Benny Wenda stands down as head of West Papuan liberation group

September 6, 2023

The evacuation of Michelle Kurisi's body

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Papuan lawyers call for impartial probe into woman killed over NZ...

September 6, 2023

Members of the Indonesian delegation at the Melanesian Leaders' Summit pre-meeting of the Foreign Ministers' in Port Vila last month

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Indonesia responds after claim official attempted to bribe RNZ Pacific journalist

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2023

Vanuatu Prime Minister Sato Kilman

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Sato Kilman elected as Vanuatu’s new prime minister for record fifth...

September 5, 2023

The NZCTU ad as featured on TV1 News tonight

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NZ election 2023: National hits back over union ads slamming Luxon

Pacific Media Watch -

September 4, 2023

Pacific shipping corridors

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China’s Shandong Province expands its climate footprint to the Pacific

September 4, 2023

Samoan climate activist Avina Clarke

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Samoan climate activist welcomes UN’s recognition of children’s rights

September 4, 2023

The Export-Import Bank of China

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Fiji owes $374.9m to Exim Bank, but China says ‘no strings’...

September 3, 2023

Labour leader Chris Hipkins

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Election 2023: Labour kicks off campaign with free dental promise

September 2, 2023

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CLIMATE AND COVID

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

Stephanie Sageo-Tapungu

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How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

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Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

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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

Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern

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King’s Birthday Honours: Former NZ leader Jacinda Ardern receives high accolade

Covid reaches Tokelau

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Tokelau covid: Two new cases announced as lockdown ends

Professor Michael Baker

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WHO covid-19 status changed but still NZ’s infectious ‘number one killer’

BEARING WITNESS

Professor David Robie

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David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

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Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

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Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

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Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

Bearing Witness

Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere

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While PNG promotes APEC big money, youth are building grassroots resilience

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40 luxury Maseratis for PNG, but little effort put into climate...

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Tukuitonga goes into battle on behalf of Pacific for WHO position

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Memo NZ: ‘Get on the right side of history’ over West...

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Resigned pro-France political leader in New Caledonia Sonia Backès

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NZ elections 2023: Green Party, Te Pāti Māori call out ‘harmful...

The Pacific region needs to be fully informed about ongoing negotiations about the global digital landscape

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Resigned pro-France political leader in New Caledonia Sonia Backès

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Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

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Resigned pro-France political leader in New Caledonia Sonia Backès

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US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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NZ govt ‘welcomes’ US diplomatic relations with Cook Islands, Niue