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PNG's Vice-Minister for Planning James Nomane
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Australia

RWC2023: Simi Kuruvoli’s boot helps ‘best ever’ Flying Fijians beat Wallabies

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September 18, 2023
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The five killed Papuan youths being buried at Kilo Enam Public Cemetery
Decolonisation

Australian advocacy group condemns killing of 5 West Papuans – challenges...

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September 17, 2023
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Palestinian demonstrators protesting in Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank against Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas in the aftermath of the death of activist Nizar Banat
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September 17, 2023
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NZ Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson
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NZ election 2023: Greens promise five weeks’ annual leave to up...

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September 16, 2023
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The PNG flag being raised for the first time as an independent nation on 16 September 2023
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PNG Post-Courier: Our democracy, our Melanesian way

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September 16, 2023
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Prime Minister James Marape at Thursday's pre-Independence Day celebration
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Marape calls for policies for a ‘better PNG’ in independence message

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September 16, 2023
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Australia

OPM calls for decolonisation of West Papua, condemns UN ‘collusion’

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September 15, 2023
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Entrepreneur Joelle Holland
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Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture

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September 15, 2023
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Manu Samoa preparing for their match against World Cup debutants Chile
Australia

RWC2023: Tonga, Samoa name strong line-ups as Fiji due to make...

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September 15, 2023
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Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders' summit participants and journalists attend the closing ceremony in Port Vila
Indonesia

IFJ condemns Indonesia over bribery, harassment attempt on RNZ journalist

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September 15, 2023
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Fiji Parliament passes a motion to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Fijian lawmakers vote for truth-telling body to ‘heal coup pains, scars’

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September 15, 2023
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Pacific election promises in NZ
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NZ election 2023: Growing Pasifika population equals greater electoral power

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September 14, 2023
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New Caledonia's Assembly President Roch Wamytan talking to news media in Baku
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‘Ambitious’ French political document presented to New Caledonian parties

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September 14, 2023
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Clarifications or not, PNG Prime Minister James Marape has left a lingering impression that Papua New Guinea’s foreign policy is for sale
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PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua

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September 14, 2023
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Homeless Raymond Green and his worldly possessions
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Being homeless in PNG is a ‘death sentence’, says Moresby’s Raymond

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September 13, 2023
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MC Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury (left) opens the Taxpayers' Union Northland election debate at Kerikeri
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NZ election 2023: Raucous Northland debate crowd rails at covid, te...

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Climate crisis . . . time to speak of “legally binding obligations'
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September 13, 2023
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The controversial photo of Milne Bay Governor Gordon Wesley (red shirt) and gang leader Eugene Pakailasi (blue shirt)
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Milne Bay governor explains secret meeting with notorious PNG gang

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September 12, 2023
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NZ's Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins
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NZ election 2023: Better ways than taxation to bring down living...

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September 12, 2023
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Pacific community members parade through Oamaru
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NZ election 2023: Pay parity an electoral issue among South Island...

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September 12, 2023
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UPNG's Professor Frank Griffin with protesting medical students
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‘I hear your cry’, UPNG chief tells protesting medical students

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September 12, 2023
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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
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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
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
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Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
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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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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

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