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Last night's local Chinese covid-10 lockdowns protest in Auckand's Aotea Square
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NZ Chinese local community protests against China lockdowns, ‘dictatorship’

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December 3, 2022
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Stills of the execution of Ammar Mefleh in Huwwara, just south of Nablus, Occupied Palestine,
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Palestinian ‘executed’ at point-blank range by Israeli border police

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December 3, 2022
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The Kanak flag designed by the pro-independence FLNKS
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Another sacred day for West Papua
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Hilda Halkyard-Harawira and Ronny Ato Buai Kareni with the Morning Star flag at the Nuclear Connections Across Oceania conference in Ōtepoti
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Pacific marks 61st year flying of Papua’s banned Morning Star flag

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The Ōtepoti Declaration . . . carrying on the legacy and vision for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific
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Oceania Indigenous ‘guardians’ call for self-determination on West Papua day

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December 1, 2022
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Niue . . . a new chapter in the covid-19 response
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Niue faces covid-19 community transmission for first time

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Annual conferences aren’t the only way to pursue meaningful action on climate change
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Myanmar’s democracy movement wants the international community to impose tough sanctions on the junta
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COP27 finale: Leaders debate climate damage funding for Pacific nations

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November 19, 2022
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Fiji Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
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Indonesian security forces repression in West Papua
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November 18, 2022
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Tuvalu proposes to create its digital twin in the metaverse
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An entire Pacific country will upload itself to the metaverse. It’s...

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November 17, 2022
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November 16, 2022
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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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
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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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
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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

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