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    • Pacific media in action .
      Crime

      Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

      Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear
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      Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture
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      Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack…

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      Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
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Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) interim chairman Thomas Eluh
Environment

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Papuan student advocate Laurens Ikinia
Development

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Former Fiji Health Minister Dr Neil Sharma
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape
Democracy

‘Don’t vote for money, relatives or cargo,’ warns PNG’s Marape

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April 12, 2022
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NZ Defence Force personnel boarding a Hercules plane.
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April 12, 2022
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Papuan protesters
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April 12, 2022
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The great drawback of democracy
Australia

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PNG Police Commissioner David Manning
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PNG police chief demands covid-19 emergency funding reports from UN

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
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Economic sanctions still best way to pressure Russia, says Ardern

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April 11, 2022
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Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
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ReliefAid food delivery in Ukraine
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Vaccine-resistant people tend to hold strong views
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People Power in Manila 1986
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President Emmanuel Macron in New Caledonia
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French Pacific readies for presidential election as Macron seeks second term

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Director of Public Health Caroline McElnay
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Vodafone in new look Digitec operation
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NZ's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield demonstrating good mask-wearing practice
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Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield
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NZ’s Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield to step down from role

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April 6, 2022
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PNG elections 2022
Elections

Marape, Electoral Commission say PNG election preps are on track

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April 6, 2022
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Head of the Caledonian Union Daniel Goa
Culture

Caledonian Union vows to end French ‘neo-colonial putsch’ in Pacific

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April 6, 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

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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
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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
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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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"
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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
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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

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Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

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