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Pilot and author Silva McLeod

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Fantasy like Moana? ‘No, I just wanted to tell my story,’ says Tongan pilot

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May 10, 2023

Activist author Maire Leadbeater

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

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RSF cheekily climbing the barricades

Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad

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Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor

New Zealand author David Robie

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David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years on

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

Margaret Mills

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

December 24, 2020

Peace Action cover detail

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Lessons from peace activists – and action is up to the...

March 20, 2023

Martyred women in the Philippines

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Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw...

September 18, 2022

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

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

August 9, 2019

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

August 1, 2026

NZ/Tongan sports champion and role model Dame Valerie Adams

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Dame Valerie Adams sets record straight in a new documentary

Pacific Media Watch -

October 22, 2022

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

February 29, 2016

Scotty Morrison

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In search of our Hawaiki origins – behind the myths and...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

October 7, 2020

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Tribute to a free and independent Pacific media

Pacific Media Centre -

April 21, 2016

Curse of Gold

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Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

March 10, 2026

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Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel

Pacific Media Watch -

May 7, 2018

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Hit & Run review – a painstaking and dangerous book challenge

March 30, 2017

Covid-19 and hate

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New covid book exposes global media bias, racism and stigmatisation

August 30, 2021

Anand Giridharadas

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Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author

July 11, 2020

Nicky Hager (left) with his publisher Robbie Burton

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

Pacific Media Watch -

September 22, 2022

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Post-coup Rabuka crackdown as seen from Fiji Times editor’s ‘hot seat’

Shailendra Singh -

April 23, 2017

Women’s solidarity march, Sydney, 2017

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Is the #MeToo era a reckoning, a revolution, or something else?

March 8, 2022

The mask comes off . . . how cartoonist Malcolm Evans characterised the Jack Tame Q&A interview

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

Pacific Media Watch -

April 23, 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

“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

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka talks to journalists at Savusavu

Commentary

In the wake of MIDA, Fiji’s news industry has turned full...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

Asia Report

‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits...

Leading civil society groups have warned that a rushed constitutional process could amount to a "self-coup"

Democracy

Fiji civil society warns about govt rushing constitutional change

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

Asia Report

‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits...

A makeshift West Papuan refugee camp in Puncak Regency after dozens of villagers were displaced from their community by armed conflict in February

Asia Report

‘They just have to get out’ – civilians pay the price...

Negar Mortazavi, host of The Iran Podcast, talks to Al Jazeera's Listening Post

Asia Report

Selling the Iran war: Purges, polygraphs and propaganda

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuk

Democracy

Pacific media must bring remote communities into the conversation, says Rabuka

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

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

Asia Report

‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits...

A makeshift West Papuan refugee camp in Puncak Regency after dozens of villagers were displaced from their community by armed conflict in February

Asia Report

‘They just have to get out’ – civilians pay the price...

Negar Mortazavi, host of The Iran Podcast, talks to Al Jazeera's Listening Post

Asia Report

Selling the Iran war: Purges, polygraphs and propaganda

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuk

Democracy

Pacific media must bring remote communities into the conversation, says Rabuka