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      Australia

      Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

      "Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships"
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The Cook Islands Maritime Authority says the Bertha is deceptively continuing to use Cook Islands Identifiers
Business

Sanctioned oil tanker falsely using Cook Islands flag, authority says

APR editor -
January 8, 2026
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Analysis

Bryce Edwards: NZ’s craven stance on the US invasion of Venezuela

APR editor -
January 7, 2026
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"ME the People."
Asia Report

Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?

APR editor -
January 7, 2026
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Exxon Mobil PNG's LNG plant near Port Moresby
Business

Papua New Guinea fully retires debt for Liquefied Natural Gas project

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January 7, 2026
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Pacific news reporting is becoming increasingly complex and contentious
Climate

New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse...

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January 6, 2026
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Donald Trump's abduction of Nicolás Maduro will make the world less safe
Crime

Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnap of Maduro...

APR editor -
January 6, 2026
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With the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of Nicolas Maduro, Washington has dug itself into a hole
Crime

Out-scooped by Trump – the US attack in Nigeria did...

APR editor -
January 6, 2026
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Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right
Analysis

Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with...

APR editor -
January 6, 2026
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Palestinian academic Sameer Barghouthi
Analysis

With the Gaza genocide, the world changed – sovereignty died and...

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January 5, 2026
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The Israeli "training" offer has sparked criticism in Australia
Asia Report

Tel Aviv offers to train Australian police officers in Israel after...

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January 5, 2026
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Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark
Crime

US attack on Venezuela ‘clearly illegal’ under UN charter, says former...

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January 5, 2026
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Who next, after the US kidnapping of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, incurs the Don’s displeasure?
Analysis

Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour –...

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January 4, 2026
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Wenceslao Vinzons . . . the local war resistance hero
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A ‘forgotten hero’ against Imperial Japan, but the legacy of ‘Bintao’...

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December 2, 2025
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West Papuan supporters raise the Morning Star flag in Leichhardt, Sydney, today as protesters around the world mark the 1 December 1961 "independence" flag-flying day. Image: AWPA
Asia Report

West Papuan liberation fighters risk ‘extermination’ by Indonesia’s high-tech forces

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December 1, 2025
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A West Papuan Morning Star flag being held in defiance of the Indonesian ban in a remote village
Asia Report

Four Papuan activists jailed on treason charges – NZ advocate says...

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December 1, 2025
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New Zealand author David Robie
Climate

David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow...

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December 1, 2025
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Tucker Carlson
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Tucker Carlson ‘tuckered out’ with Donald Trump and Israel – insights...

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November 30, 2025
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Pro-Palestinian protesters over the Gaza genocide
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Fiji, NZ protesters kick off UN day of solidarity for Palestine...

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November 29, 2025
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A Fiji pro-Palestinian solidarity protest in the Suva harbour
Asia Report

Israel attacks three countries as NZ protesters prepare for UN day...

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November 29, 2025
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Sitiveni Rabuka appeared before the Fiji Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Crime

Fiji PM Rabuka blames ‘insulated’ upbringing for racially motivated 1987 coups

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November 28, 2025
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A demonstrator holds a sign reading, "Selective Justice is Injustice"
Asia Report

How Israel has set a dangerous precedent in international law

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November 28, 2025
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The Tahiti search operations involved about 200 emergency staff
Disasters

Tahiti landslide: no survivors – all 8 bodies retrieved

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November 28, 2025
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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

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

Professor David Robievideo
Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration
Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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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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Taiwan Day event in Suva
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GLOBAL REPORTAGE

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Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

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Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

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"Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships"

Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror

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CNMI territory approaching a critical eoonomic point

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