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    • French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira
      Decolonisation

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Melanesian solidarity with West Papua on display at the MACFEST 23
Decolonisation

OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan...

APR editor -
August 9, 2023
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Some of the weapons and ammunition seized by PNG police
Crime

PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid

APR editor -
August 8, 2023
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Grade 12 students from the Waigani Christian College in Port Moresby
Education

PNG’s literacy rate ‘lowest in Pacific’, but government plans boost to...

APR editor -
August 8, 2023
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Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant
Fiji

Japan to release treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater in weeks

APR editor -
August 8, 2023
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Fiji-born journalist Sri Krishnamurthi
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Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist, storyteller...

David Robie -
August 7, 2023
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Dr Liu (second from right) visits baby Taylor (cradled by his mother)
China

Life-saving vow by Chinese doctor in PNG saves baby Taylor with...

APR editor -
August 7, 2023
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino (from left) with Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad and Fiji Football Association president Rajesh Patel
Fiji

Fiji Deputy PM condemns decline in ‘Bula Boys’ football ranking

APR editor -
August 7, 2023
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The Press front page RNZ story
Media

Mediawatch: Putting right what went wrong with RNZ’s online news

Pacific Media Watch -
August 6, 2023
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Author Byron Clark Clark believes Pacific nations are “less susceptible to climate change disinformation
Climate

Researchers warn over climate crisis ‘fringe views’ danger as NZ election...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 6, 2023
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Filmmaker Kristo Langker nervously introduces his documentary with one of the Indonesian attack bombs that failed to explodevideo
Global

New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua

APR editor -
August 5, 2023
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Fukushima Daichi nuclear power station
Environment

Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance

APR editor -
August 5, 2023
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PNG police get even tougher . . . this week settlers who had allegedly been evicted opened fire at police officers with a stray bullet wounding a female reporter
Crime

‘You will be shot’, PNG’s police chief warns criminals in tough...

APR editor -
August 3, 2023
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The wounded NBC journalist near Port Moresby 2 August 2023
Crime

PNG woman journalist hit by stray bullet during Moitaka shootout

APR editor -
August 3, 2023
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RNZ board chair Dr Jim Mather
Democracy

RNZ review: Changes to be made as ‘promptly as possible’, says...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 3, 2023
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Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron
China

Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to French...

APR editor -
August 3, 2023
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Southern Highlands police headquarters, Mendi
Crime

PNG police report capture of alleged kidnapper of 17 girls in...

APR editor -
August 3, 2023
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Solomon Star's editor Alfred Sasako adamant that the newspaper has maintained its editorial independence
China

China trying to buy influence with Pacific media as it strengthens...

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August 2, 2023
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A team of doctors from the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) when visiting the suspended Papuan Governor, Lukas Enembe, at Kartika Pavilion 2 of the Gatot Subroto Army Central Hospital on 28 July 2023
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Ailing suspended Papuan governor Enembe now in detention cell after army...

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August 2, 2023
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Razed office buildings and boarding houses in West Papua's Dogiyai Regency, Central Papua Province, which caught fire on Monday 31 July 2023
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Papuan police investigate spate of fires razing offices, houses in Dogiyai

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August 2, 2023
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

Pacific Media Watch -
August 2, 2023
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Cabinet Minister David Parker has thrown a real spanner in the works for Prime Minister Chris Hipkins
Analysis

Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more...

APR editor -
August 1, 2023
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Bougainville' President Ishmael Toroama
Bougainville

‘What are you afraid of?’ Toroama asks PNG about independence vote

APR editor -
August 1, 2023
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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

"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
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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

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Tweets by DavidRobie

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...

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

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French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira
Decolonisation

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"Wars end when the people with the power to end them decide the cost of continuing exceeds the cost of stopping"
Analysis

Richard David Hames: When will we make war untenable for...

"Bloodied but as yet unbowed, Iran knows it can rise like the Phoenix"
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Pope Leo and US President Donald Trump
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Taiwan Day event in Suva
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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira
Decolonisation

Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party

Suara Papua and the Human Rights Monitor group allege Indonesian security forces have indiscriminately opened fire in a series of villages in Moanemani
Asia Report

At least five Papuans reported dead as violence explodes in Dogiyai

"Bloodied but as yet unbowed, Iran knows it can rise like the Phoenix"
Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Who will pay billions in reparations to Iran? We...

Pope Leo and US President Donald Trump
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Pope’s message for peace: ‘The Church cannot remain silent when power...

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French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira

Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party

April 6, 2026
"Wars end when the people with the power to end them decide the cost of continuing exceeds the cost of stopping"

Richard David Hames: When will we make war untenable for...

April 6, 2026
"Bloodied but as yet unbowed, Iran knows it can rise like the Phoenix"

Eugene Doyle: Who will pay billions in reparations to Iran? We...

April 5, 2026
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April 5, 2026
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April 4, 2026
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