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Tribute to a free and independent Pacific media

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

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A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest songs

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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...

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Single Asia Female
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Single Asian Female: A reflection

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A publisher writes on ‘the terror’ of publishing Nicky Hager

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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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The campsite on the Long March at Mildura, Victoria
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NZ Listener June 1972
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A Listener flashback: The sacking of an editor

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1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
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Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific

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March 1, 2016
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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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New Marshall Islands fisheries book
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How extraordinary Marshall Islands fisheries story grew … and grew

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Military Nduga
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Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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