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American advocacy journalist and film maker Abby Martin in conversation with Auckland journalist Simon Wilson

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Abby Martin’s documentary takes on the ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ ecocide

August 1, 2026

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 have plagued the Pacific

Papua's Tom Beanal

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Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

Author Shana Chandra

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Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

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

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

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Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must...

August 19, 2025

Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua

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Pesta Babi – ‘Pig Feast’ . . . a vivid new...

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March 1, 2026

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Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

July 16, 2018

New Zealand author David Robie

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David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow...

December 1, 2025

1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver

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Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific

March 12, 2026

The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning

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The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...

July 3, 2025

Curse of Gold

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Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

March 10, 2026

Martyred women in the Philippines

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Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw...

September 18, 2022

Peace Action cover detail

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Lessons from peace activists – and action is up to the...

March 20, 2023

A protest over a controversial and widely condemned series of heavily armed nationwide Te Urewera raids

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An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia...

January 8, 2025

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Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel

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May 7, 2018

Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad

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Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor

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October 26, 2025

The Sunday Graphic's 1953 Royal Tour Picture Album

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Late Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 Pacific royal tour teaches us much about...

September 9, 2022

Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste

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The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1:...

May 21, 2025

The mask comes off . . . how cartoonist Malcolm Evans characterised the Jack Tame Q&A interview

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Malcolm Evans: A new low in NZ media’s record of bias...

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April 23, 2024

Waves of Change co-authors Associate Professor Shailendra Singh (from left), Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad and Dr Amit Sarwal

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Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in...

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July 14, 2024

The podcast takes the listener into a room in Seattle, Washington, in 1984, where Greenpeace International leader Steve Sawyer met for the first time with Jeton Anjain

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How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior...

December 5, 2024

Co-editors Vijay Naidu and Claire Slatter at the launch of ‘Remembering Epeli Hau’ofa'

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A tribute to a Pacific visionary – remembering Epeli Hau’ofa

March 18, 2024

Author Phil Kafcaloudes (centre) with Australia Calling colleagues

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Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement

January 27, 2023

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‘They get up in the morning, sing their dreams’ – PNG...

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August 4, 2017

Activist author Maire Leadbeater

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Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’

November 9, 2024

Pilot and author Silva McLeod

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Fantasy like Moana? ‘No, I just wanted to tell my story,’...

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May 10, 2023

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

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

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

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

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

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

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

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

Analysis

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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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

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)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Auckland's Waitematā Station on Monday morning

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Auckland’s City Rail Link – 25,000+ train passengers on first weekday

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"Put the greens last"

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Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

President Trump boasts of having the greatest military in the world

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Why can’t Democrats outshine a dangerous, unstable, delusional, egomaniacal Trump?

EDITOR'S PICKS

Siaosi (George) Lavelua serving 'otai for his parents business

Culture

‘We’re one people’ – a young Tongan man’s te reo Māori...

Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham and co-director Rachel Szor receiving the Venice Special Jury Prize for their critical Gaza war film

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The controversial documentary NAZA: 10 reasons to defend this whistleblower war...

Protesters march down Auckland's Queen St

Climate

Greenpeace protests Conservation Amendment Bill in downtown Auckland

Author Naomi Klein . . . "Either you bunker - either you just protect you and yours - or . . .

AI

‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor on billionaires, bunkers,...

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Australia

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

Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham and co-director Rachel Szor receiving the Venice Special Jury Prize for their critical Gaza war film

Analysis

The controversial documentary NAZA: 10 reasons to defend this whistleblower war...

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Civil Society

Gallery: ‘Save our land – sell Luxon instead’ message at NZ...

Fiji's 2013 Constitution

Democracy

Fiji targets new constitution by Christmas Eve as watchdog warns of...