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    • A lack of scrutiny and action from the international community, including New Zealand, is allowing illegal atrocities to continue in Gaza
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      NZ’s shameful silence on Gaza is potentially complicity with genocide

      The Daily Blog editor and publisher Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury
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      Sinister ‘Free Speech Union’ attacks investigative journalist for being investigative

      Public broadcaster Television New Zealand
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      "Democracy not deals"
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      Saige England: We spoke truth to power and the powerful folded

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ndonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin
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NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
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Pandora Papers - Samoa
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October 10, 2021
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NZ's Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins
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Scott Waide
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NZ Medical Council chair Dr Curtis Walker
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Gavi Vaccine Aliance health workers
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NFP's Dr Biman Prasad
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Stuff’s independent covid-19 fact guide – ‘The whole truth’

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Police question Brother Frater Anton Syufi
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Police arrest spectator at Papua Games for wearing Morning Star T-shirt

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Vaccination rates must keep climbing in NZ
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Papuans arrested and blindfolded in an Indonesian military crackdown in Maybrat Sept 2021
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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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
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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

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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Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
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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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A lack of scrutiny and action from the international community, including New Zealand, is allowing illegal atrocities to continue in Gaza
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A lack of scrutiny and action from the international community, including New Zealand, is allowing illegal atrocities to continue in Gaza

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