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    • Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong
      Decolonisation

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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale
Analysis

Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other...

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August 10, 2026
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Fiji has been an independent nation since 1970 and a republic since 1987
Analysis

Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad: Fiji’s flag – a conversation we must have

APR editor -
August 10, 2026
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Some Americans are fighting every day to save the babies of Cuba
Analysis

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

APR editor -
August 9, 2026
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ABC people get replaced by non-ABC people - and sooner rather than later we have Sinophobic news specials
Analysis

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 9, 2026
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Iranian Kiwi Seyed Derhany
Asia Report

‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned...

APR editor -
August 8, 2026
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A Rising Tide climate protest with a Newcastle Port blockade
Australia

Australia, world leader in arresting climate protesters, drops 130 charges

APR editor -
August 8, 2026
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Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting 2026 in Suva
Asia Report

Pacific Islands Forum fails to reach consensus on anti-missile statement against...

APR editor -
August 8, 2026
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Counsel Assisting before Commissioner Virginia Bell
Analysis

Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’

APR editor -
August 7, 2026
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The Democrat voters chose Dr Abdul El-Sayed because he’s a fighter
Analysis

El-Sayed’s Michigan primary win against tyranny a good omen for a...

APR editor -
August 7, 2026
0
Pacific Islands Forum member flags
Climate

Pacific foreign ministers to discuss Solomons’ idea for regional security treaty

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August 7, 2026
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International justice advocate Craig Mokhiber
Asia Report

Self defence action by Iran ‘first truly consequential action’ by state,...

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August 7, 2026
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112 members of two Palestinian families - Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia - have been buried in Gaza
Asia Report

Gaza genocide: Mourning the 112 victims of two families of Israeli...

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August 6, 2026
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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale
Asia Report

Manasseh Sogavare unleashes on Solomon Islands government over US agreement

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August 6, 2026
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In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership
Asia Report

NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

Pacific Media Watch -
August 6, 2026
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An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand
Analysis

Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo

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August 5, 2026
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KNPB spokesperson Ogram Wanimbo
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KNPB plans coordinated demos across Papua on New York Agreement anniversary

APR editor -
August 5, 2026
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Zionist lawyer Yehuda Shimon
Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: All mainstream Western institutions view Palestinian lives as worthless

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August 5, 2026
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New Zealand Herald's editor-at-large Shayne Currie's "Media Insider" column
Commentary

‘I am now legally censored from even talking about being censored’...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 4, 2026
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NZ's Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick
Democracy

Chlöe Swarbrick kicked out of House after challenging Speaker’s ‘double standards’

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August 4, 2026
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These "Legally censored - Redacted" lines now replace headlines over two Daily Blog editorials published prior to today's Auckland District Court hearing
Democracy

Gagged NZ editor’s ‘free speech’ case adjourned as judge warns Daily...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 4, 2026
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A lack of scrutiny and action from the international community, including New Zealand, is allowing illegal atrocities to continue in Gaza
Analysis

NZ’s shameful silence on Gaza is potentially complicity with genocide

APR editor -
August 4, 2026
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The Daily Blog editor and publisher Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury
Commentary

Why I am willing to go to prison tomorrow for Free...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 3, 2026
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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

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