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Michael Field: Freedom at midday – stories from Facebook prison

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September 22, 2022

PNG's Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika

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Landmark PNG Supreme Court ruling toughens cybercrime law

Fiji's Women and Children's Minister Lynda Tabuya

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Fiji Women’s Minister Lynda Tabuya calls for stronger online bullying laws

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‘We can’t control the demons’: Tonga mulls Facebook ban

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Jakarta files appeal against court’s ruling on Papua internet blackout

Fiji's Women and Children's Minister Lynda Tabuya

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Fiji Women’s Minister Lynda Tabuya calls for stronger online bullying laws

February 26, 2024

Robert Reich's message to President Donald Trump

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President Trump, don’t listen to your sycophants on Iran, this isn’t...

April 3, 2026

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Facebook news ban turns attention to tech giants’ impact on journalism

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February 21, 2021

Kiingi Tuheitia is laid to rest at Taupiri maunga

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Mediawatch: Kiingi Tuheitia’s tangihanga – epic broadcast marks new epoch for...

September 8, 2024

Nobel Peace laureate Maria Ressa

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Rappler ordered to shut down by Philippines government, says Ressa

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June 29, 2022

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

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PM defends temporary suspension of Facebook until new law in place

November 23, 2020

Protesters at a local inner Sydney council meeting

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Rightwing astroturfers infiltrate Australian local councils, fire up unrest over Israel

September 11, 2024

Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern delivering her valedictory speech to Parliament

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Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory plea – ‘take politics out of climate change’

April 5, 2023

It would be clearly unwise for New Zealand to threaten or cut aid to Kiribati

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NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau’s inability to engage with NZ difficult to defend

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February 1, 2025

AJI general chairperson Sasmito Madrim

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AJI slams hacking of group chief’s accounts as attack on press...

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March 1, 2022

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The Conversation’s submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the News...

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January 20, 2021

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird

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Opposition MP Allan Bird claims his ‘life under threat’ after PM...

March 11, 2024

PNG Post-Courier editorial

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Post-Courier: Draconian and dangerous move

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January 16, 2024

Tax and contempt

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News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change...

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January 26, 2025

Former Fiji Health Minister Dr Neil Sharma

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Fiji ministers ‘held on tight leash’ – afraid to speak up,...

April 12, 2022

Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte

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Duterte ‘institutionalised’ disinformation, paved the way for a Marcos victory

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June 20, 2022

The case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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A new book argues Julian Assange is being tortured. Will Australia’s...

June 7, 2022

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RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism

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June 17, 2020

Hong Kong police arrest Stand First editors

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Hong Kong indy Stand News shuts down in face of Chinese...

January 8, 2022

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Critics call out ‘disappearance’ of Pacific media archive

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September 30, 2023

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Iran trolls Trump with AI-generated LEGO video – now ‘banned’

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April 15, 2026

Dr Ashley Bloomfield montage

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NZ’s Ashley Bloomfield bows out – a look at his key...

July 30, 2022

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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)

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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

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

Analysis

After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March

Democracy

FMA praises Fiji media workers for press freedom climb but warns...

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

Fiji has climbed from 40th place in 2025 in the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index

Democracy

Political reforms drive Fiji’s big press freedom gains, says RSF

EDITOR'S PICKS

PINA president Kalafi Moala

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Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

Analysis

Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Analysis

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

Analysis

After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

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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

Two foreign activists -- Brazilian Thiago Ávila and Spanish Palestinian Saif Abukeshek -- from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were kidnapped and taken to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May 3 and again two days later

Analysis

Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi

Asia Report

NZ govt must rebuke Israeli envoy over beating of citizens, says...

Fiji Times journalist Alifereti Josefa-Sakiasi speaking at the combined Fiji universities' World Press Freedom Day talanoa

Democracy

Media programmes at USP, FNU join forces for World Press Freedom...