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    • "I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month
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Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985
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Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

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Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick
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Swarbrick pleads for NZ cross-party support for sanctions on Israel

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"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today
Asia Report

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement

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March 19, 2025
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New Zealand journalist Mohamed Hassan presenting the Big Picture podcast
Asia Report

Netanyahu commits a new ‘bloodbath in Gaza’ to save himself

Pacific Media Watch -
March 19, 2025
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NZ's opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins
Environment

Hipkins accuses PM of undermining NZ’s nuclear-free stance in India memo

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March 19, 2025
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The morgue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza
Asia Report

Massacre at 2 am – Israel resumes indiscriminate attacks against Gaza,...

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March 19, 2025
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Indonesian police arrest the "Sentani 12" activists
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West Papua liberation group demands Indonesia releases 12 arrested activists

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March 19, 2025
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Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution
Culture

Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

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March 18, 2025
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How Al Jazeera today reported the resumption of Israeli air strikes on Gaza
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PSNA calls on NZ govt to condemn renewed Israel air strikes...

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March 18, 2025
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Protesters in Auckland call for a permanent end to the war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and for justice
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New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable

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March 18, 2025
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A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil
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Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
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Fijian academic says PM’s plans to change constitution ‘might take a...

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A crew member on board the RAN frigate HMAS Stuart monitors the Chinese Navy's missile destroyer Zunyi and the supply ship Weishanhu
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Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world

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March 17, 2025
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Jax Taylor of Waiheke Island, one of the New Zealand protesters reciting poetry
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Former US envoy slams air attacks on Houthis – NZ protesters...

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March 16, 2025
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The flags of Guam and the US
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Guam at decolonisation ‘crossroads’ with resolution on US statehood

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March 16, 2025
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Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte awaiting trial
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Former Filipino president Duterte’s arrest by the ICC – 20 journalists...

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Besma at the "Free Palestine" rally in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau
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NZ rally honours ‘voice of Palestine’ poet and marks Christchurch massacre

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March 15, 2025
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"No circumspection. No leadership."
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No apologies over fabricated terror plot from pollies or lobby groups

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March 15, 2025
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Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro
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Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history

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March 15, 2025
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Māori entities have grown from contributing $17 billion to New Zealand's GDP
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Dramatic growth of NZ’s Māori economy highlights new report

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March 14, 2025
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Canadian billionaire James Grenon and NZME
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The Pacific and the world
Australia

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March 14, 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.
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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
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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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"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

May 5, 2026
"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

May 5, 2026
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

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

May 4, 2026
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