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Margaret Mills

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

December 24, 2020

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Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

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

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

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Pesta Babi – ‘Pig Feast’ . . . a vivid new film exposing Papua’s political ecology

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

New Marshall Islands fisheries book

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How extraordinary Marshall Islands fisheries story grew … and grew

October 2, 2021

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

Margaret Mills

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

December 24, 2020

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

December 14, 2016

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The bloody 1965-66 slaughter – behind Indonesia’s mass killings secrecy

August 9, 2019

Papua's Tom Beanal

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

May 18, 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

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

Owen Wilkes

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Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched

February 21, 2023

Single Asia Female

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Single Asian Female: A reflection

May 6, 2021

Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Harsono

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

April 16, 2019

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Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance

January 9, 2016

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Hit & Run review – a painstaking and dangerous book challenge

March 30, 2017

A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler

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From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of...

September 29, 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

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RSF cheekily climbing the barricades

January 9, 2016

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Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River

Pacific Media Watch -

July 19, 2017

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Behind the Blockade : A ‘prisoner’ mother’s struggle to remove barriers

February 29, 2016

Writer Nick Bollinger speaking at the Roger Fowler whānau's book launch

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A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival...

October 11, 2026

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

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Polar bear mojo for Greenpeace captain’s environmental thriller

April 9, 2016

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

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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...

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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

PIF Secretary-General Baron Divavesi Waqa with Israeli Ambassador Maya Yaron

Asia Report

Israel joins Pacific Islands Forum as development partner

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...

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

Analysis

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

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

Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka

Commentary

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...

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...

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

Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka

Commentary

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...

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...