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    • Sydney CAM Rally . . . CAM uses tactics including social media, lobbying politicians and convening conferences to relentlessly pursue its goal of entrenching the IHRA definition of antisemitism into policy at all levels
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PNG police order crackdown on illegal firearms as deadline looms

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Indonesian police forcibly break up a rally in Waena
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Pacific students
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Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Aklehvideo
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PNG's Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil
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RSF 2022 World Press Freedom Index
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The Porgera mine and township of Paiam
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100 PNG security forces arrive in Porgera, tension eases

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The failed "pink revolution"
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Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr
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Fiji National University's Nasinu campus
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Pro-independence Kanaks
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Asia Report

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Pacific Climate Warriors
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
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Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
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Sydney CAM Rally . . . CAM uses tactics including social media, lobbying politicians and convening conferences to relentlessly pursue its goal of entrenching the IHRA definition of antisemitism into policy at all levels
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Sydney CAM Rally . . . CAM uses tactics including social media, lobbying politicians and convening conferences to relentlessly pursue its goal of entrenching the IHRA definition of antisemitism into policy at all levels

Australia’s Combat Antisemitism Movement keeps slaying social cohesion

May 28, 2026
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US-built ‘torture ship’ and US funding played role in kidnapping, torture...

May 27, 2026
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‘Digital colonisation’ – West Papuan activist targeted in fake AI-generated reel

May 27, 2026
Gaza freedom flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby (right) being welcomed home at Auckland International Airport on Sunday

Kidnapped Kiwi Gaza flotilla detainee condemns brutal Israeli torture

May 27, 2026
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Moana Pasifika captain hopeful their final whistle hasn’t blown yet

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