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A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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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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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
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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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