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The Opposition: Paga Hill’s villagers fight for justice in PNG

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February 10, 2018

Papua's Tom Beanal

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

Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Harsono

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Indonesia’s political system has ‘failed’ its minorities – like West Papuans

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

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RSF cheekily climbing the barricades

Pilot and author Silva McLeod

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

Sri Krishnamurthi -

May 10, 2023

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...

March 8, 2026

Women’s solidarity march, Sydney, 2017

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Is the #MeToo era a reckoning, a revolution, or something else?

March 8, 2022

The case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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A new book argues Julian Assange is being tortured. Will Australia’s...

June 7, 2022

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RSF cheekily climbing the barricades

January 9, 2016

NZ/Tongan sports champion and role model Dame Valerie Adams

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Dame Valerie Adams sets record straight in a new documentary

Pacific Media Watch -

October 22, 2022

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Putting state terrorism in context – the Rainbow Warrior follies

March 1, 2016

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Rainbow Warrior … launch of the new ‘last voyage’ and bombing...

August 6, 2015

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...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 14, 2024

NZ Listener June 1972

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A Listener flashback: The sacking of an editor

May 9, 2020

Author Shana Chandra

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Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

April 28, 2026

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The Opposition: Paga Hill’s villagers fight for justice in PNG

Pacific Media Watch -

February 10, 2018

Anand Giridharadas

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Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author

July 11, 2020

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Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’

January 28, 2018

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

A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide

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Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

October 15, 2026

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Post-coup Rabuka crackdown as seen from Fiji Times editor’s ‘hot seat’

Shailendra Singh -

April 23, 2017

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

Activist author Maire Leadbeater

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

November 9, 2024

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...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 22, 2026

The Encampments

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The Encampments vs October 8 – a battle of narratives on...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 10, 2025

Peace Action cover detail

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

March 20, 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

Analysis

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"

Analysis

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...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
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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

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Samoan Prime Minister La'auli and New Zealand's Christopher Luxon in Apia

Elections

‘I said no’ – Samoan PM told Luxon treaty refresh must...

Part of a fullpage Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) advertisement in The New Zealand Herald

Asia Report

‘Please explain’, Palestine Forum tells NZ over Israeli-Pacific Islands Forum ‘partnership’

As a second-tier PIF partner, Israel will support Pacific development priorities in areas such as water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation

Decolonisation

‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s...

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

Commentary

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

EDITOR'S PICKS

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

Commentary

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

Democracy

Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

Analysis

The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

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Australia

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

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

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

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

Commentary

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

Analysis

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Asia Report

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...