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    • Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June
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PNG former prime minister Peter O'Neill outside Boroko Police Station
Crime

O’Neill claims perjury charges over PNG’s UBS loan inquiry ‘political’

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June 12, 2023
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New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens was photographed with his rebel captors in Indonesia's Papua region
Decolonisation

Papuan churches call on Jokowi to halt military ops for NZ...

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June 12, 2023
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RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson
Global

RNZ chief executive apologises after pro-Russian sentiment added to stories

Pacific Media Watch -
June 12, 2023
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One of the kidnapped Papua New Guinean schoolgirls talks about her ordeal
Crime

PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them

APR editor -
June 12, 2023
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PNG police . . . another reported kidnapping in the Mt Bosavi area
Crime

Armed gunmen kidnap 17 girls from remote PNG village – freed...

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June 12, 2023
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RNZ and "Russian propaganda" claims
Global

‘We are in the war’: Ukrainian man says RNZ altered news...

APR editor -
June 12, 2023
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International Primary School Suva students cleaning up at the My Suva Picnic Park along the Nasese foreshore in the Fiji capital this week
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John Mitchell: Planet Ocean – tides are changing, but halt plastic...

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June 12, 2023
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One of the 15 online articles that have been the subject of RNZ's audit
Global

RNZ investigating series of ‘Kremlin-friendly’ story edits in audit

Pacific Media Watch -
June 11, 2023
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Girmitiyas - Indentured labourers - in Fiji
Culture

New NZ theatre production highlights Fiji Girmityas’ struggles

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June 11, 2023
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Expert witness Dr Robert Masreng testifies during the treason trial of three Papuan students
Asia Report

Papuan students accused of ‘treason’ over raising Morning Star flags

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June 10, 2023
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Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown
Democracy

Auckland city budget finally approved: Councillor likens debate to ‘eating rats’

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June 9, 2023
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PNG police at the governance workshop in Port Moresby yesterday
Democracy

PNG police ‘lack accountability, governance’, warns commissioner

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June 9, 2023
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Climate

Pacific unity crucial in ‘crowded geopolitical landscape’, says Fiame

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June 9, 2023
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Mayor Wayne Brown's backdown
Democracy

Auckland Council fails to decide over controversial budget – reconvening...

APR editor -
June 9, 2023
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PNG's stood down Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko
Democracy

20 MPs walk out as PNG’s Tkatchenko apologises for ‘media trolls’...

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June 8, 2023
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Tahiti's President Moetai Brotherson
Climate

‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence

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June 8, 2023
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Prime Ministers Sitiveni Rabuka of Fiji (left) and Chris Hipkins of New Zealand
Climate

Hipkins grants Fiji $11m in climate crisis aid as Rabuka renews...

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June 8, 2023
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Panguna mine . . . the flooding
Bougainville

Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities

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June 7, 2023
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Vanuatu PM Ishmael Kalsakau
Climate

Climate crisis greatest threat to Pacific regional security, says Vanuatu PM

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June 7, 2023
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Pasifika broadcasters
Cook Islands

‘Let’s tell our own stories’ – Pacific broadcasters seek sovereignty

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June 6, 2023
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The US military continues Guam build-up
Civil Society

Guam’s indigenous people ‘feel less safe’ over US military build-up

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June 6, 2023
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The Melanesian Spearhead Secretariat office in Port Vila
Asia Report

West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG

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June 6, 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

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Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June
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Taiwan Day event in Suva
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GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June
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‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

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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US midterm elections in the Pacific
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Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June

Eugene Doyle: Jesus wept – Pacific Forum endorses Israel and genocide

November 5, 2026
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...

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