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Columnist Matthew Hooton's article justifying Foreign Minister Winston Peters' stance on Palestine
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Misleading ‘justification’ column on Peters and Palestine panned

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How Al Jazeera reported the Gaza ceasefire deal
Analysis

Netanyahu claims ceasefire ‘success’ but Israeli public sees him as obstacle

APR editor -
October 9, 2025
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Al Jazeera senior analyst Marwan Bishara warns that beyond a Gaza ceasefire, the Trump plan eyes hegemonic peace that favors Israel
Asia Report

PSNA cautiously welcomes Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal

APR editor -
October 9, 2025
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Gaza's "port" area showing the degree of devastation
Analysis

Two years after October 7: Israel’s war, Gaza’s ashes, and the...

APR editor -
October 9, 2025
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Signing the Pukpuk Treaty
Analysis

The Pukpuk Treaty and the future of Papua New Guinea-Australia relations

APR editor -
October 9, 2025
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Flotilla trio Rana Hamida (from left), Youssef Sammour and Samuel Leason
Asia Report

NZ flotilla members arrive in Jordan, state news agency says

APR editor -
October 8, 2025
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Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama announces the caretaker Bougainville Executive Council (BEC)
Bougainville

Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, names caretaker government

APR editor -
October 8, 2025
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Defiant pariah state leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Analysis

John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our...

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October 7, 2025
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Celebrated Middle East expert and journalist Chris Hedges . . . out, replaced by a former IDF colonel now ambassador by Australia's National Press Club?
Asia Report

Australia’s National Press Club blocks Hedges’ Gaza media talk, lines up...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 7, 2025
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Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers
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‘We want legitimate leaders’: Bougainvilleans head to the polls amid push...

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September 5, 2025
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Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son
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Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....

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September 5, 2025
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Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"
Civil Society

Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua

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September 4, 2025
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) held bilateral discussions with the United Nations Secretary-General
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UN chief to address PNG parliament today during ‘historic’ visit

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September 3, 2025
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"His favourite merchant." - Mr Fish
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Chris Hedges: The betrayal of Palestinian journalists

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September 3, 2025
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A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel
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Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear...

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September 2, 2025
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Dr Anthony Bellanger, the French general-secretary of the Brussels-based International FeDeration of Journalists, talks to Al Jazeera in an interview today on the death toll of Gazan journalists
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250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli...

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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
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Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

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September 1, 2025
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Palestinian activist Nadine Mortaja announces the planned "March for Humanity"
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Police plan for march which will shut Auckland Harbour Bridge this...

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Indonesian security forces fire tear gas to quell protests at Manokwari
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West Papuan civil society groups protest over brutal security forces crackdown...

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Former NZ politician Aupito Tofae Su'a William Sio
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‘Huge relief’ in Samoa post snap general election, says Aupito

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August 31, 2025
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Filipino media "influencers" complicit in Israeli propaganda programme
Asia Report

How two Filipino ‘journalists’ took part in Israeli whitewashing of genocide

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August 31, 2025
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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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Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
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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"
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Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

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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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
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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)
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Jacinda Ardern
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Crime

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Asia Report

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