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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 read for activism

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

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

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A protest over a controversial and widely condemned series of heavily armed nationwide Te Urewera raids
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A timely climate media strategy to empower citizens

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Malcolm Evans: A new low in NZ media’s record of bias...

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Single Asia Female
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Single Asian Female: A reflection

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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...

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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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Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River

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

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NZ/Tongan sports champion and role model Dame Valerie Adams
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Dame Valerie Adams sets record straight in a new documentary

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

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

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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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How Holland censored its post-Japan colonial war in Indonesia

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Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua
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Pacific Climate Warriors
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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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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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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