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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

Margaret Mills

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Pioneering saga of early Otago horse whisperer author’s dream come true

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 Fiji

The Encampments

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The Encampments vs October 8 – a battle of narratives on Palestine plays out in cinema

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Polar bear mojo for Greenpeace captain’s environmental thriller

New Marshall Islands fisheries book

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How extraordinary Marshall Islands fisheries story grew … and grew

October 2, 2021

Covid-19 and hate

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New covid book exposes global media bias, racism and stigmatisation

August 30, 2021

Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste

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

May 21, 2025

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Hit & Run review – a painstaking and dangerous book challenge

March 30, 2017

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

January 28, 2018

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

New Zealand author David Robie

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

December 1, 2025

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Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

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February 19, 2019

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An important book exposing problems immigrants – especially Muslims – face...

March 3, 2023

Curse of Gold

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Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

March 10, 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

Papua's Tom Beanal

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

May 18, 2026

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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A timely climate media strategy to empower citizens

February 7, 2018

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Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance

January 9, 2016

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‘Paying it forward’ – a new dance concept with Ia Manuia

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September 26, 2015

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

Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Harsono

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

April 16, 2019

Military Nduga

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West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of destruction not...

May 18, 2020

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Disney’s Moana: First Pacific movie princess the real deal

December 14, 2016

The campsite on the Long March at Mildura, Victoria

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

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February 14, 2023

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Polar bear mojo for Greenpeace captain’s environmental thriller

April 9, 2016

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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"

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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...

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 Green Party’s Ricardo Menéndez March (left) and Labour's Phil Twyford

Asia Report

PSNA slams NZ’s ‘uncaring’ lack of signature on global Israeli settlements...

West Papuan advocate Paula Makabory

Asia Report

West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

Cook Islands

US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Climate

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

EDITOR'S PICKS

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Climate

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Climate

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott

Asia Report

How Free Palestine party plans to pressure NZ govt over its...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

Cook Islands

US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Climate

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Climate

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott

Asia Report

How Free Palestine party plans to pressure NZ govt over its...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

Cook Islands

US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’