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    • Adelaide Writers' Week Festival Board members who resigned
      Australia

      Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

      "Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships"
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      Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror

      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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RNZ will continue to lease back 12 ha of the regained Whitireia whenua
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Ngāti Toa Rangatira celebrates return of sacred maunga Whitireia from RNZ

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October 17, 2025
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New French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu
Decolonisation

French Senate endorses postponement of New Caledonia’s provincial elections

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October 17, 2025
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"Trump’s ceasefire is a political theatre of control"
Asia Report

From the Knesset to Sharm el-Sheikh: How the US president offered...

APR editor -
October 16, 2025
0
Kiwirok villagers show some of the areas that have been bombed in the attack on their village
Decolonisation

Wenda accuses Indonesian troops of bombarding village in Star mountains

APR editor -
October 16, 2025
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His widow Miriam continued her husband’s legacy
Asia Report

Trump keeps admitting that he is bought and owned by the...

APR editor -
October 15, 2025
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Climate adaptation
Climate

Pacific voices urge experts to ‘decolonise’ adaptation at New Zealand’s largest...

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October 15, 2025
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"The Palestinian genocide victims were of scant concern at the Knesset spectacle"
Analysis

What Trump said and didn’t say in obscene genocide tribute in...

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October 15, 2025
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which has filed five complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Israeli crimes against journalists, has called for justice
Asia Report

Pacific Media Watch backs RSF call for urgent end to Gaza...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 15, 2025
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France's new Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou
Decolonisation

New minister in ‘rollercoaster’ French politics causes concern in New Caledonia

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October 14, 2025
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"My greatest worry is that [Netanyahu] does believe that his only chance of being reelected is still to have a war going on"
Analysis

Israeli historian Ilan Pappé: Despite ceasefire, Palestinians still face ‘elimination, genocide’

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October 14, 2025
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Matangi Tonga publisher Pesi Siale Fonua
Media

Tributes pour in for Matangi Tonga founder Pesi Siale Fonua –...

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October 14, 2025
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Protesting Arab=Israeli lawmaker Ayman Odeh
Decolonisation

Opposition Israeli lawmakers interrupt Trump and call for recognition of Palestinian...

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October 13, 2025
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Palestinian children celebrate news of the Gaza ceasefire
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After Gaza ceasefire, ‘massive political pressure’ needed to prevent Israel from...

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October 13, 2025
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What would Alfred Nobel have said?
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Eugene Doyle: The Nobel Peace laureate who calls for US bombing...

APR editor -
October 13, 2025
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Lebanese-Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf speaks
Asia Report

IFJ condemns Australian lobby censorship bids to ‘silence’ reporting on Gaza

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October 13, 2025
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Palestinians, forcibly displaced to the southern part of Gaza by Israel, make their way north
Analysis

The fake Gaza ‘peace agreement’ versus real peace with justice

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October 12, 2025
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Freedom Flotilla hunger strikers Huwaida Arraf (from left -- Palestinian/American), Omer Sharir (Israeli) and Zohar Chamberlain Regev (Israeli/German)
Analysis

Sara Awad: Why Gaza still looks to the freedom flotillas for...

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October 12, 2025
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While Māori are guaranteed representation through the Māori electoral roll at the national level . . .
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Gerard Otto: Low turnout and rates pressure drive down Māori wards...

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October 12, 2025
0
Fauono Ken Laban
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Ken Laban makes history as Pasifika candidates win across Aotearoa

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October 12, 2025
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MediaQuest corporate communications consultant Ramon Isberto
Asia Report

Think, click, share – making media literacy fun for Filipinos

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October 11, 2025
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A deradicalisation that would make it preposterous for Shabana Mahmood, Britain’s Home Secretary, to call demonstrations against a two-year genocide “fundamentally un-British”
Analysis

Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that...

APR editor -
October 11, 2025
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Back in Aotearoa at Auckland International Airport today after the Israeli military abducted Global Sumud Flotilla participants on international waters heading for Gaza last month
Asia Report

‘Treated like animals’ – NZer activists detained by Israeli forces arrive...

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October 10, 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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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)
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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)
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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CNMI territory approaching a critical eoonomic point
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GLOBAL REPORTAGE

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From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent...

China's ambassador to Samoa Fei Mingxing (left) hands over a ceremonial cheque for US$200,000 to SPREP director of legal services and governing bodies Aumua Clark Peteru in Apia
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Decolonisation

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Adelaide Writers' Week Festival Board members who resigned

Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

January 13, 2026
"Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships"

Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror

January 13, 2026
A potential pathway for transformative change in Indonesia, aiming to forge a new social contract for Papuans

Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation

January 12, 2026
CNMI territory approaching a critical eoonomic point

CNMI leaders warn economic slide could affect US strategic presence in...

January 12, 2026
The Sydney Harbour Bridge "March for Humanity" on 3 August 2025

Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t

January 12, 2026
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Sāmoan Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt

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