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    • Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt
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      The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"
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      American Samoa

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Looting in Port Moresby
Crime

Looting breaks out in PNG capital during police and military strike

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January 11, 2024
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The late Chief Lukas Enembe's family mourns him after his coffin is delivered
Analysis

Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling...

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January 10, 2024
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A Palestinian cartoon . . . media truth to power
Analysis

Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after...

Pacific Media Watch -
January 8, 2024
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Former French High Commissioner in New Caledonia Patrice Faure
Decolonisation

Former New Caledonia-based envoy appointed French President’s chief

APR editor -
January 8, 2024
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Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, has been killed in an Israeli air strike
Asia Report

Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists...

Pacific Media Watch -
January 8, 2024
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A poster promoting a protest against the Gaza genocide planned for outside the South Australian Parliament
Analysis

Why NZ should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

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January 7, 2024
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Australian journalist John Pilger addressing a Green Left-hosted public forum in 2014
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Vale John Pilger, at times a near-lone voice for truth against...

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January 1, 2024
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New Zealand Reporter of the Year Barbara Dreaver
Cook Islands

Pacific journalists are strong and ‘it’s up to us’, says honoured...

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December 30, 2023
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The University of the South Pacific's Laucala campus in Fiji
Climate

USP prepares Pacific communities to respond to climate change

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December 4, 2023
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Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr
Climate

‘It’s tragic’ – Palau president slams NZ govt’s oil and gas...

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December 2, 2023
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Piango Pacific activists in Fiji prepare their Morning Star flags
Analysis

Why West Papuans are raising a banned independence flag across Australia,...

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December 1, 2023
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Many Western mainstream media covering the news about the War on Gaza conformed to an Israeli narrative
Australia

Nine editors double down in ‘tense’ war on Gaza editorial ban...

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December 1, 2023
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NZ's Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters attends a media conference at Parliament in Wellington
Media

IFJ condemns deputy PM’s comments as threat to NZ press freedom

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December 1, 2023
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Families from across the West Bank gather in Ramallah for an upcoming prisoner release
Analysis

Since the war on Gaza began, violence against Palestinians has surged...

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December 1, 2023
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NZ's new Foreign Minister Winston Peters
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Peters has track record but NZ aid policy still hard to...

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November 30, 2023
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Labour's Chris Hipkins
Democracy

NZ Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins reveals new shadow cabinet

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November 30, 2023
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USP's Professor Pal Ahluwalia
Education

‘Up in arms’ USP staff challenge vice-chancellor’s stay in Samoa

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November 30, 2023
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"Climate justice now" protesters in Port Vila
Climate

Human rights group wants climate mobility justice on COP28 agenda

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November 29, 2023
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USP's Professor Pal Ahluwalia
Education

Ahluwalia reappointed as USP’s VC in spite of protests, strike threat

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November 29, 2023
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Day two of the USP staff protest over pay fairness and leadership
Education

USP strike on the cards after council blocks staff papers in...

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November 28, 2023
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Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

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November 28, 2023
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University of the South Pacific Union president Reuben Colata and Professor Biman Prasad
Education

USP union warns of industrial action if fair pay is not...

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November 28, 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

“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
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...

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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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EDITOR'S PICKS

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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders
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Editor's Picks

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt

Samoa government urged at UN to address declining media freedom

November 5, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under fire

‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

November 5, 2026
The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

November 4, 2026
US midterm elections in the Pacific

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

November 4, 2026
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Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu

November 4, 2026
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