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    • Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed
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The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji
Asia Report

Fiji rights coalition slams ‘betrayal’ of West Papua for Indonesian benefits

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May 17, 2025
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Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban, PhD
Culture

A life of service: celebrating the career of Luamanuvao Dame Winnie...

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May 17, 2025
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Pro-Palestine protesters outside the NZ Voyager Media Awards in Auckland tonight demonstrating against "biased" media coverage
Asia Report

Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against...

Pacific Media Watch -
May 16, 2025
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Indigenous Papuans in Merauke district protest to protect their customary lands
Asia Report

Indigenous Papuans accuse Indonesian government of ‘land grabbing’ for food security...

APR editor -
May 16, 2025
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FM100 talkback host Culligan Tanda
Global

Media Council makes ‘stop Telikom PNG silencing journalists’ plea to PM...

Pacific Media Watch -
May 16, 2025
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How Palestine has been swallowed up by Greater Israel expansionism since the 1948 Nakba
Analysis

As Trump basks in Gulf Arab applause, Israel massacres children in...

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May 15, 2025
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Rongelap Islanders
Climate

Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French...

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May 15, 2025
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A Girmit exhibition in Wellington
Culture

Fiji Indians in NZ ‘not giving up’ on Pasifika classification struggle

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May 14, 2025
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PNG Police Commissioner David Manning
Crime

PNG police authorised to use lethal force with ‘domestic terrorist’ kidnappers...

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May 14, 2025
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Cousins Kapieri Samisoni and Tristan Petueli embrace their Rotuman culture through dance
Culture

NZ celebrates Rotuman as part of Pacific Language Week series

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May 14, 2025
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Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslaih
Asia Report

Israeli attack on hospital to kill Gaza journalist condemned as ‘heinous’

Pacific Media Watch -
May 14, 2025
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Flames and a column of smoke in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa during 2024 riots
Decolonisation

New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at...

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May 13, 2025
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Images have been circulating on social media of Indonesian rockets that have been reportedly fired on villages
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AWPA calls on Albanese to raise West Papuan human rights with...

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May 13, 2025
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New Caledonia's Congress in Nouméa
Decolonisation

Indigenous Kanaks support New Caledonia’s 50-year ban on seabed mining

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May 13, 2025
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Pope Leo XIV to journalists
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Pope Leo XIV expresses solidarity for ‘persecuted’ journalists seeking truth, calls...

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May 13, 2025
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Professor Richard Jackson
Asia Report

Otago academics plan declaration on Palestine to ‘face daily horrors’

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May 12, 2025
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French gendarmes on guard at Noumea's central Place des Cocotiers
Decolonisation

France tightens security for riots anniversary after aborted New Caledonia political...

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May 12, 2025
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The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes
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PSNA says broadcast ruling a warning to NZ news media to...

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May 12, 2025
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West Papuan resistance fighters
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‘Fighting more frequent now’ – researcher warns of escalating West Papua...

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May 12, 2025
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Vibes Kava co-founders Charles Byram (left) and Derek Hillen
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May 12, 2025
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President Donald Trump's back turned
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‘Cutting off communications’ – did Trump really just turn his back...

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May 12, 2025
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) with President Prabowo Subianto at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, in April 2025
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Indonesia’s Pacific manoeuvres – money, military and silencing West Papua

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May 11, 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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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)
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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre
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Reporters Without Borders says for the first time in the Index's history, more than half of the world's countries now fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories for press freedom
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Fiji has climbed from 40th place in 2025 in the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index
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Political reforms drive Fiji’s big press freedom gains, says RSF

EDITOR'S PICKS

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed
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PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea
Democracy

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila
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Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March
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MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern
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Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva
Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea
Democracy

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila
Asia Report

Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

Reporters Without Borders says for the first time in the Index's history, more than half of the world's countries now fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories for press freedom
Australia

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Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March
Democracy

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Editor's Picks

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

May 4, 2026
PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

May 4, 2026
Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

May 4, 2026
Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March

FMA praises Fiji media workers for press freedom climb but warns...

May 4, 2026
Global Sumud Flotilla boats have been intercepted illegally by Israeli Defense Forces

NZer in flotilla intercepted by Israel has concussion and possible broken...

May 3, 2026
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Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March

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The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has expressed grave concern for the safety and well-being of human rights activists Palestinian Saif Abu Kishek and Brazilian Thiago Ávila, who were abducted by Israeli commandos

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