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Freedom Flotilla hunger strikers Huwaida Arraf (from left -- Palestinian/American), Omer Sharir (Israeli) and Zohar Chamberlain Regev (Israeli/German)
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While Māori are guaranteed representation through the Māori electoral roll at the national level . . .
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Gerard Otto: Low turnout and rates pressure drive down Māori wards...

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Fauono Ken Laban
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Ken Laban makes history as Pasifika candidates win across Aotearoa

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MediaQuest corporate communications consultant Ramon Isberto
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Think, click, share – making media literacy fun for Filipinos

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A deradicalisation that would make it preposterous for Shabana Mahmood, Britain’s Home Secretary, to call demonstrations against a two-year genocide “fundamentally un-British”
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Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that...

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Back in Aotearoa at Auckland International Airport today after the Israeli military abducted Global Sumud Flotilla participants on international waters heading for Gaza last month
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‘Treated like animals’ – NZer activists detained by Israeli forces arrive...

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October 10, 2025
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South Tarawa in Kiribati
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Amnesty International wants NZ visa for climate-hit Pacific islanders

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

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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
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PSNA cautiously welcomes Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal

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Gaza's "port" area showing the degree of devastation
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Two years after October 7: Israel’s war, Gaza’s ashes, and the...

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

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October 9, 2025
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Flotilla trio Rana Hamida (from left), Youssef Sammour and Samuel Leason
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NZ flotilla members arrive in Jordan, state news agency says

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October 8, 2025
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Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama announces the caretaker Bougainville Executive Council (BEC)
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Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, names caretaker government

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October 8, 2025
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Defiant pariah state leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our...

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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?
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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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Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son
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Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) held bilateral discussions with the United Nations Secretary-General
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"His favourite merchant." - Mr Fish
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Chris Hedges: The betrayal of Palestinian journalists

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A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel
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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
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
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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
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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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Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
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