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      Decolonisation

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Parliament Haus in Port Moresby
Analysis

Long time coming: After decades of struggle, is Bougainville on the...

APR editor -
August 27, 2026
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Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown
Cook Islands

Mark Brown’s Cook Islands Party set to govern for historic fifth...

APR editor -
August 27, 2026
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New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli
Business

New Caledonia’s President Tukumuli outlines six-month recovery roadmap

APR editor -
August 26, 2026
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Thai Mai Thon members delivered a protest letter to the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok
Asia Report

Thai protesters picket Israeli embassy over tourist harassment

APR editor -
August 26, 2026
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"The fact that you can sling around libel without evidence in the largest newspapers in Australia gives us a window into how discussion of basic Palestinian rights is shut down"
Analysis

Adam Johnson: Coverage of my media book being banned proves the...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 26, 2026
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The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji
Analysis

Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco...

APR editor -
August 26, 2026
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (right) and MPs "pray for wisdom"
Decolonisation

‘This is a difficult task’: PNG parliament to finally address Bougainville...

APR editor -
August 26, 2026
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RNZ's Morning Report
Business

RNZ tops trust survey, lifts radio and digital audiences

Pacific Media Watch -
August 26, 2026
0
A bushfire comes close to a residential area in Hohola, Port Moresby
Climate

PNG’s tinder-dry Central Province and NCD struggle under El Niño

APR editor -
August 25, 2026
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A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website
Analysis

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

Pacific Media Watch -
August 24, 2026
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Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun
Culture

Lakapi Samoa CEO warns World Rugby sanctions could end Manu Samoa

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August 24, 2026
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NSW Justice Desmond Fagan
Analysis

Segal’s speech code meets the law – Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s...

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August 24, 2026
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Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus
Analysis

West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 24, 2026
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Paramedics from New South Wales led the rescue
Global

Whale-watching boat carrying NZ Anglican Church delegates capsizes in Tonga

APR editor -
August 24, 2026
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NSW Premier Chris Minns
Asia Report

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

APR editor -
August 23, 2026
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Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."
Analysis

Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

APR editor -
August 22, 2026
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Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell
Analysis

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

APR editor -
August 22, 2026
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians
Commentary

‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...

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August 21, 2026
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Caretaker Prime Minister and Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown with supporters on election night
Analysis

Stability key driver in Cook Islands Party’s election performance, says analyst

APR editor -
August 21, 2026
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Australia's march for humanity and an end to Israel's Gaza genocide
Asia Report

Australia, don’t be surprised. Israel does this to Palestinians all the...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 21, 2026
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The number of Fijians who are HIV positive has risen to at least 9000
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Fiji’s HIV epidemic has yet to reach a ‘turning point’, warns...

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August 21, 2026
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After two years of denial, Israel has officially admitted firing on the 5-year-old Hind Rajab’s car
Asia Report

Palestinian theologian warns against trusting Israel over Hind, medics killings probe

APR editor -
August 20, 2026
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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

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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

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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
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...

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Tweets by DavidRobie

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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EDITOR'S PICKS

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong
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TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate
Culture

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists
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Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires
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Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

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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

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong
Decolonisation

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate
Culture

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists
Asia Report

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires
Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

Editor's Picks

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

October 30, 2026
TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

October 30, 2026
A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

October 29, 2026
Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

October 29, 2026
Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,

Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

October 28, 2026
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Samoan Prime Minister La'auli and New Zealand's Christopher Luxon in Apia

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October 25, 2026
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October 28, 2026
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PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian...

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How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

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