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People queue to vote in Bougainville’s independence referendum in 2019
Bougainville

Bougainville takes the initiative in mediation over independence

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From the very start of his papacy, Pope Francis seemed determined to do things differently
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Pope Francis has died, aged 88. These were his greatest reforms...

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April 22, 2025
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New Zealand soldiers in the Imperial Camel Corps who took part in the successful Battle of Rafah,
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PSNA calls on NZ govt to initiate global plea for ‘no...

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April 22, 2025
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How global news channel Al Jazeera reported the death of Pope Francis at 88
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Pope Francis dies one day after first post-hospital public appearance and...

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April 21, 2025
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A My Lai massacre display in the Vietnam War Remnants Museum
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The fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was...

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April 21, 2025
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A school bombed out by Israeli forces provides some shelter to a family in Khan Younis, Gaza
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Gaza had educational justice. Now the genocide has wiped that out,...

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April 21, 2025
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Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen

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April 20, 2025
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Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages...

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April 19, 2025
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South Vietnamese torture "tiger cages" against the Viet Cong at the War Remnants Museum on Ho Chi Minh City
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Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s...

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April 19, 2025
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Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order
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Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

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April 19, 2025
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UAS footage of RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the Southern Coast of Upulo as part of Operation Resolution
Disasters

What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater...

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April 18, 2025
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Pro-Palestinian protesters picket New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT)
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Why NZ govt should back Greens’ sanctions bill on Israel over...

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April 18, 2025
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Palestinians march in protest today over the thousands of prisoners being held in Israeli jails
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Israeli prison system designed to crush Palestinian resilience, says ex-detainee

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April 17, 2025
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Women make up a large portion of the journalism profession
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Bad news – why Australia is losing a generation of journalists

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April 17, 2025
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Fiji Defence Minister Pio Tikoduadua
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Fiji defence minister draws flak for six-week trip to meet peacekeepers

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April 17, 2025
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Maldives President Dr Mohamed Muizzu
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NZ’s Palestine Forum calls on Luxon to take ‘firm stand’ over...

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Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad...

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PNG Prime Minister James Marape
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PNG’s ‘chief servant’ James Marape defeats no-confidence vote

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April 15, 2025
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The colonnaded Widener Library looks out over Tercentenary Theatre at the heart of Harvard’s campus.
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Obama praises Harvard for ‘setting example’ to universities resisting Trump

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April 15, 2025
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NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters and his delegation in Hawai'i
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Peters emphasises growing importance of NZ’s Pacific ties with the United...

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April 15, 2025
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Australian protesters highlight university hypocrisy over the Israeli genocide in Gaza
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Israeli military reservists court Australian universities amid ‘hypocrisy’ over anti-war protests

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April 15, 2025
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All of New Caledonia’s political parties engaged in a video conference with French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls
Decolonisation

Leaked ‘working paper’ on New Caledonia’s political future sparks new concerns

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April 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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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
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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"
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Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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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

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Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

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