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How the PNG Post-Courier reported the Engan massacre today 210722

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18 people hacked to death in Porgera in under an hour amid PNG elections

July 21, 2022

Veronica Koman

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Indonesian police target Veronica Koman for West Papua ‘incitement’

Mendi mayhem

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Mendi a battlefield as disgruntled PNG election rivals raid police station

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30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital

The aftermath of a dawn raid yesterday in Eastern Highlands province 200922

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Tense Goroka town under lockdown after brutal slaying of PNG Ports chief

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New Zealand activists urge PM Ardern to act now on West...

Michael Andrew -

August 30, 2019

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Michael Andrew: On the NZ media’s coverage of West Papua

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September 11, 2019

Kazakh police arrest protesters in Almaty

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‘The revolution has started’ – revolt against poverty and corruption in...

January 10, 2022

Taiwan flag in Honiara's Chinatown

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Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building

November 27, 2021

Matthew Wale

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Solomon Islands riots: Wale calls for no confidence vote in ‘hiding’...

November 27, 2021

"No to neocolonialism" say Christian Tein of the protest group CCAT and thousands of Kanak protesters

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Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots

May 17, 2024

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Moale James: Citizen journalism countering ‘deliberate’ media silence on West Papua

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November 4, 2019

Police and protestors clash at the conclusion of the 2022 occupation at NZ's Parliament grounds

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RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 2, 2023

Rioting in Kukum Highway, Honiara,

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Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion

November 25, 2021

Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr

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‘Frightening to see such violence’ in tribal war on PNG’s Kiriwina...

October 26, 2022

"Chaos in Washington"

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‘This is a banana republic?’ – the Caribbean reacts to the...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 11, 2021

Manokwari rioting

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‘Racist’ attack on Papuan students in Surabaya sparks rioting in Manokwari

Pacific Media Watch -

August 19, 2019

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FLNKS calls for West Papua self-determination, condemns violence

September 4, 2019

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Australia needs to ‘step up’ on West Papua, says Vanuatu at...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 30, 2019

NZ pilot Philip Mehrtens with some of his West Papuan rebel captors

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Two countries, two kidnappings – Port Moresby shows Jakarta how it’s...

February 27, 2023

An injured man being treated in hospital in Mt Hagen

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Tension still high in PNG’s Mt Hagen after school fight leads...

April 5, 2022

Fleeing Porgera women

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20 dead – PNG women, girls flee tribal fighting in Porgera...

September 15, 2024

The Honiara riots

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Solomon Islands downgraded over riots, troubles in new CIVICUS report

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December 9, 2021

ULMWP president Benny Wenda

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West Papua independence group slams French ‘modern-day colonialism’

May 26, 2024

PNG Defence Force soldiers keep watch after running riot in the Port Moresby suburb of Boroko

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PNG soldiers shock with Boroko street takeover in security uproar

March 11, 2023

Armed police with teargas masks on guard in Honiara

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Solomon Islands riots: Night-time curfew imposed in capital

November 27, 2021

Solidarity action in Vanuatu in support of the indigenous Kanak Indigenous people of New Caledonia

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Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’

June 21, 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

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

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...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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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

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In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free

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President Trump's so-called "Board of Peace"

Analysis

Gaza’s future stuck in diplomatic limbo as ‘Board of Peace’ blocks...

French-Ethiopian student Sarah Cotte

Analysis

Retrial for UK student charged with ‘terrorism’ over speech condemning genocide

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

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Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

EDITOR'S PICKS

French-Ethiopian student Sarah Cotte

Analysis

Retrial for UK student charged with ‘terrorism’ over speech condemning genocide

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

Culture

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025

Australia

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...

The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

Analysis

The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

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

French-Ethiopian student Sarah Cotte

Analysis

Retrial for UK student charged with ‘terrorism’ over speech condemning genocide

Ex-coup convict George Speight

Culture

Former coup leader re-enters Fiji political debate with challenge to immunity...

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

Culture

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025

Australia

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...