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President Surangel Whipps Jr at his first state visit to Taiwan in May 2025
China

Palau president calls exclusion of PIF partners a ‘missed opportunity’

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A video clip posted by the Israeli "Security" Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on August 15 showed the bully taunting and intimidating a frail Marwan Barghouti
Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Saving Palestine’s Marwan Barghouti is our duty

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August 19, 2025
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Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Climate

Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must...

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August 19, 2025
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Call for legal shield for Fiji National Provident Fund in review...

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August 18, 2025
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Senior ministers from Australia and Vanuatu initialled the Nakamal Agreement at the top of Mount Yasur. (ABC News: Lillyrose Welwel) Photo: ABC News / Lillyrose Welwel
Democracy

New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst

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August 18, 2025
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Journalist and film director Hassan Abu Dan
Asia Report

‘Will I make it back alive?’: Gaza journalists tell of being...

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August 18, 2025
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Placards declare "Zionism a threat to humanity" and "Let Gaza live"
Asia Report

Pro-Palestinian protests across NZ call on government to sanction Israel

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August 18, 2025
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New Zealand's government and its sycophantic media need more time to argue about this very "complex" Gaza genocide
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Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if –...

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August 17, 2025
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The alleged assault on an elderly protester at the Otāutahi Palestine solidarity rally
Crime

Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police

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August 17, 2025
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"It's about time for Luxon to grow a spine"
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Luxon ‘grow a spine’ chants as big rallies call for NZ...

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August 16, 2025
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Meanwhile, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (right) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters (left)
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Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy...

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August 16, 2025
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Bougainville woman politician Elizabeth Tako Palin
Bougainville

‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s...

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August 15, 2025
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Local body election candidates
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‘We need to be involved’: Pasifika candidates running in Auckland local...

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August 15, 2025
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MEAA union journalists in Australia show solidarity for their Gazan colleagues
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‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates

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August 15, 2025
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First responders carry the bodies of several children
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The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’...

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August 14, 2025
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Laurie Humuni (RDO), spokesperson for the FLNKS political bureau (left) and UC's secretary-general Dominque Fochi
Decolonisation

‘Full sovereignty and independence’: FLNKS rejects France’s Bougival project

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August 14, 2025
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Under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, states must take positive steps to prevent genocide. The New Zealand government appears to be failing in this obligation
Analysis

John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel

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August 14, 2025
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Assassinated by the Israeli military, Anas Al-Sharif (left) and Mohammed Qaryaq
Asia Report

‘If I die, I die steadfast … I bear witness …...

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August 14, 2025
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Between 26 to 30 Gazan journalists have been targeted in this Israeli campaign of assassination. And Anas wanted the UN rapporteur to go public, he wanted others to go public, to stop what Israel was doing
Analysis

Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif,...

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August 13, 2025
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Civil Society

Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday

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August 13, 2025
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
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Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon

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August 13, 2025
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The Elders' joint statement says they saw evidence of food and medical aid being denied entry
Asia Report

Israel deliberately obstructing aid, says former PM Helen Clark

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August 13, 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

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...

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

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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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Despite the presence of many well-known pro-Palestinian activists, there was no security in the room
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Despite the presence of many well-known pro-Palestinian activists, there was no security in the room
Analysis

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Gaza freedom flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby (right) being welcomed home at Auckland International Airport on Sunday
Asia Report

‘Is it NZ First, or Israel First?’ Ormsby challenges NZ foreign...

Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General
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Vanuatu’s Anna Naupa becomes first woman to lead MSG Secretariat

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Trump went to war against Iran and got a deal far...

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Despite the presence of many well-known pro-Palestinian activists, there was no security in the room

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Vanuatu’s Anna Naupa becomes first woman to lead MSG Secretariat

June 18, 2026
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