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    • "The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."
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Journalists at Taipei's Grand Hotel reception celebrating seven years of the Asia Pacific regional office of RSF
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Crime

PNG bus shooting: ‘This sort of revenge killing is unheard of’

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October 25, 2024
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A Fiji protester at the weekly vigil for a Gaza ceasefire and decolonisation in Palestine, Kanaky and West Papua at the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre
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PM defends Fiji’s UN ‘ambush’ vote – challenged by human rights...

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October 25, 2024
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Indonesian security forces block Indigenous West Papuans protesting in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta against land seizures
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Prabowo takes power as Indonesian military set up new battalions – what...

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October 25, 2024
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
Decolonisation

Rabuka’s message to free Kanaky movement: ‘Don’t slap the hand that...

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October 25, 2024
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who is currently in Apia for the 27th Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), was bestowed with a Samoan matai title
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‘We’ll be talking about the future of negotiations’, says Rabuka on...

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October 24, 2024
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Christchurch citizens hold up a "Stop the genocide" banner before yesterday's council vote
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NZ’s Labour calls on other cities to follow Israel boycott lead

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October 24, 2024
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Assassinated veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh
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UN rapporteur condemns Israeli ‘death sentence’ claim trying to silence last...

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October 24, 2024
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape with newly inaugurated Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
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Indonesia to offer ‘amnesty’ for West Papuans contesting Jakarta’s rule

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October 24, 2024
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How the front page of today's Samoa Observer covered the arrival of King Charles
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King Charles arrives in Samoa for ‘resilient environment’ CHOGM

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October 24, 2024
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FLNKS leader Christian Tein
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Kanak leader Christian Tein’s jailing in France overturned in new legal...

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October 23, 2024
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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair John Minto and University of Canterbury lecturer Dr Josephine Varghese speak at the Christchurch City Council meeting today
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NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements

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October 23, 2024
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"Multiple bodies" reported at the site of the Enga bus attack
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Deadly bus ambush in PNG’s Enga province kills, wounds many

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October 23, 2024
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Kanak flags lifted high at a pro-independence rally in Nouméa
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New Caledonia crisis: Pacific leaders’ mission must ‘look beyond surface’

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October 23, 2024
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Global action to protect oceans from climate change
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Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight...

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October 23, 2024
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President Prabowo Subianto
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Prabowo’s presidency sparks fear and faint hope in Indonesia’s contested Papua

APR editor -
October 23, 2024
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The Panguna mine as seen in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea,
Bougainville

Rio Tinto class action begins over ‘toxic’ Bougainville mine disaster

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October 13, 2024
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Photojournalist Doaa al Baz working in Gaza
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One year of war in Gaza – protect journalists now, says...

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October 12, 2024
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West Papuan resistance over logging and mining projects
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West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 12, 2024
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French Polynesian President Moetai Brotherson
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Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN

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October 11, 2024
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Part of the full page advertisement published by the Christchurch Star
Asia Report

Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 11, 2024
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Under the old regime, press barons, from William Randolph Hearst to Rupert Murdoch, at least pretended they were committed to truth-telling journalism
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Pacific Media Watch -
September 20, 2024
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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

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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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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

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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
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"The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."
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"The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."
Analysis

Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations

A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home
Asia Report

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu
Crime

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"The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."

Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations

May 24, 2026
The documentary Pesta Babi has stirred discussions about Papuan development and the impact of deforestation policies

Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’

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A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

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New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu

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