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      Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

      "Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships"
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      A potential pathway for transformative change in Indonesia, aiming to forge a new social contract for Papuans
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      Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation

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"By helping each other we save each other."
Civil Society

Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...

APR editor -
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Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus at Rarotonga port last month, holding banners proclaiming "Don’t Mine The Moana"
Cook Islands

Growing local opposition to seabed mining decision has forced Cook Islands...

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November 13, 2025
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Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by the Israeli military in air strikes in spite of the Gaza ceasefire on 19 October 2025
Asia Report

The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide –...

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November 13, 2025
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Australian journalist Roger Domm with Falintil resistance fighters in Timor-Leste in 1990
Asia Report

Timor-Leste’s Xanana Gusmão pays tribute to journalist Robert Domm over independence...

Pacific Media Watch -
November 13, 2025
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USTKE and other inter-union members met French Overseas Minister Naïma Moutchou on her visit to Camp Est prison in Nouméa
Decolonisation

French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia

APR editor -
November 13, 2025
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New documentary presents detailed accounts of Israeli soldiers opening fire unprovoked on civilians running toward food handouts
Asia Report

Israeli soldiers killed civilians, aid seekers in Gaza free-for-all ‘at wish...

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November 12, 2025
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Asia Report

Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support

APR editor -
November 12, 2025
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Leonora Tumala shares her frustration after their homes in Daet were crushed by a tree in the typhoon
Asia Report

80 Camarines Norte barangays isolated after Typhoon Uwan hits Philippines

APR editor -
November 11, 2025
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking at the opening of COP30, yesterday
Climate

COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold...

APR editor -
November 11, 2025
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Relatives mourn over the body of Palestinian journalist Ahmad Abu Mutayr
Asia Report

Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report

Pacific Media Watch -
November 11, 2025
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Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi
Analysis

NZ’s Te Pāti Māori purge fails to end the party war

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November 10, 2025
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Award-winning TVNZ investigative journalist Indira Stewart speaking at the Pacific Media International conference in Suva, Fiji, in July 2024. Papers from the conference are featured in the inaugural edition of Pacific Media being published today.
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New Pacific Media journal launched in APMN and USP partnership

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November 10, 2025
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Concern over the Pacific Ocean being hyper-militarised
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Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on...

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November 10, 2025
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Dame Jacinda Ardern, Special Envoy for Oceania and former prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand (right) and Coral Pasisi, Director of Climate Change and Sustainability at the Pacific Community (SPC)
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Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in...

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November 10, 2025
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Pacific People's Mission to Kanaky
Decolonisation

‘Profound distrust’ in France, says Pacific people’s mission report calling for...

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November 9, 2025
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"Let Gaza Live" says a placard in a New Zealand protest against the Israeli genocide and environmental devastation in West Auckland
Asia Report

Gaza’s water supply turns poisonous as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic legacy

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November 9, 2025
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A BDS - boycott, divestment and sanctions - placard
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NZ Palestine protesters condemn govt over failure to impose sanctions against...

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November 8, 2025
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Palestinians clear rubble to search for survivors in a Gaza house
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Gaza ‘ceasefire’ simply means that Israel can do whatever it wants....

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November 8, 2025
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Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard
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NZ government has ‘Trumpian accent’, says global human rights advocate

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November 8, 2025
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PNG's conjoined twins
Global

‘We’re running out of time’: PNG parents in desperate plea to...

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November 7, 2025
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For Pacific’s women, the toll of runaway temperature increase will be heavy
Analysis

Why Blue Pacific’s infrastructure distress is a cocktail poisoning human development...

APR editor -
November 7, 2025
0
A pro-Palestinian protester outside the public broadcaster TVNZ in an Auckland demonstration
Asia Report

Censorship crusade: Israel targets platforms and online archives to ‘rewrite Gaza’

Pacific Media Watch -
November 7, 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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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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Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

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