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Activist author Maire Leadbeater

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

November 9, 2024

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 over political critics

NZ/Tongan sports champion and role model Dame Valerie Adams

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Dame Valerie Adams sets record straight in a new documentary

PJR 26(1) cover detail

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PJR warns growing risks and hostile laws ‘silencing’ Melanesian media

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Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

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Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel

Pacific Media Watch -

May 7, 2018

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

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

January 28, 2018

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

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

Pacific Media Watch -

February 10, 2018

The campsite on the Long March at Mildura, Victoria

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Peter Lusk: Reflections on my mahi with peace researcher Owen Wilkes

Pacific Media Watch -

February 14, 2023

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Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance

January 9, 2016

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Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

July 16, 2018

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

NZ Listener June 1972

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A Listener flashback: The sacking of an editor

May 9, 2020

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Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River

Pacific Media Watch -

July 19, 2017

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

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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Putting state terrorism in context – the Rainbow Warrior follies

March 1, 2016

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

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

Pacific Media Watch -

March 1, 2026

1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver

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

March 12, 2026

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

August 6, 2015

Lilo Ema Siope

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Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

July 22, 2020

Owen Wilkes speaking at a protest at the US base at Christchurch Airport

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Owen Wilkes, the intellect behind New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance

January 17, 2023

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

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2017

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How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace

April 23, 2019

Auli'i Cravalho is still great as Moana

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Moana 2: The magic is missing in this half-baked Pacific sequel

Pacific Media Watch -

December 2, 2024

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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

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...

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

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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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

The Akaroa Mail editor and owner Michael de Hamel, 41 years at the helm

Business

NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years

PSNA flyers supporting Palestine

Asia Report

Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru...

US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia

Asia Report

Lim Tean: What is an American signature by Trump actually worth?

Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan

Asia Report

PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

Climate

The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

Commentary

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...

Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

Business

Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton...

An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed

Asia Report

Human Rights Watch report says Indonesia is silencing environmental activists in...

MOST COMMENTS

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

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

Climate

The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...

Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

Commentary

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port...

Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

Business

Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton...

An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed

Asia Report

Human Rights Watch report says Indonesia is silencing environmental activists in...