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The new New Zealand investment bill is convoluted and would significantly reduce effective scrutiny of foreign investments
Analysis

Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had...

APR editor -
July 22, 2025
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Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark speaking on the deck of the Rainbow Warrior
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Keep fighting for a nuclear-free Pacific, Helen Clark warns Greenpeace over...

APR editor -
July 21, 2025
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Auckland protesters condemn Israel's systematic starvation tactics in the besieged Gaza enclave in a march in the Viaduct
Crime

PSNA calls on NZ to urgently condemn Israeli weaponisation of starvation

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July 21, 2025
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Porirua Cemetery manager Daniel Chrisp speaks at the Family Forum beside the chapel, as Mayor Anita Baker and whānau gather to honour 1800 patients buried in unmarked graves
Civil Society

Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves

APR editor -
July 21, 2025
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The Cook Islands' outer islands, or Pa Enua, are emptying as people make the pilgrimage to Rarotonga for constitution celebrations
Cook Islands

Cook Islanders flock from outer islands for 60th anniversary celebrations

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July 21, 2025
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The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels
Asia Report

Is the international community finally speaking up about Israel’s Gaza genocide?

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July 21, 2025
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A Rainbow Warrior shipboard protest over the Gaza genocide today
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Palestine solidarity rally greeted by Rainbow Warrior Gaza protest

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July 19, 2025
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The first-ever US military flight carrying 18 Marshall Islanders deported from the United States by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrives at Majuro
Crime

ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base

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July 19, 2025
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"Western media institutions promote a colonial narrative that reproduces the discourse of Israeli superiority, using linguistic and legal mechanisms to justify genocide."
Asia Report

Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative

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July 19, 2025
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Stéphane Hessel was a leading member of the French Resistance
Analysis

Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?

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July 18, 2025
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Public protest in the NZ naval base suburb of Auckland . . . local resident Margaret Taylor of Amnesty International (right) at the front of the Devonport Out For Gaza march on Victoria Rd
Asia Report

Flying the flags for Palestine – NZ protesters take message to...

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July 17, 2025
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The indigenous Kanaky flag adopted in 1983 and usually flown alongside the French tricolour under the Nouméa Accord
Decolonisation

Police protection for New Caledonian politicians following death threats

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July 17, 2025
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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses The Hague Group Summit
Analysis

12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá...

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July 17, 2025
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Susi Newborn, a Greenpeace founder, Rainbow Warrior crew stalwart, activist and author
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Susi Newborn among activists featured in Pacific ‘nuclear free heroes’ video

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July 17, 2025
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"Hot off the press" . . . David Robie talks Eyes of Fire just after receiving the first copy of his book marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985
Civil Society

David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront...

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July 16, 2025
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Zionist settllers attack Palestinian homes and cars at the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank
Asia Report

First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’

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July 16, 2025
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Incumbent Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama
Bougainville

Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament

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July 16, 2025
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UN peacekeepers advocated by DAWN for Gaza
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UN expert advocates peacekeeper path to break Israel’s siege on Gaza

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July 15, 2025
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Sacked head of the Fiji anti-corruption agency FICAC
Fiji

Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined...

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July 15, 2025
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Protesters against Israel's genocide in Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank take to the streets in Devonport last weekend
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Australian bid to criminalise Palestine support creates ‘hierarchy of racism’, says...

Pacific Media Watch -
July 15, 2025
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Cook Islands will mark 60 years of self-governance in free association with New Zealand on August 4
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Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations

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July 15, 2025
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A funeral has been held in the occupied West Bank for both the young Palestinians killed by Israeli settlers, Sayfollah ‘Saif’ Mussalet, an American Palestinian from Tampa, Florida, and Muhammad Shalabi
Asia Report

Israeli settlers beat to death 2 Palestinians in latest lynchings

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July 14, 2025
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CLIMATE AND COVID

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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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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Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
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Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robievideo
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David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration
Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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APJS NEWSFILE

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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QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
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PNG police and crime . . . military issue arms are a fairly recent addition to tribal fighting.
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"Either the Iran death toll is massively inflated, or the Gaza death toll is a massive underestimate
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PNG police and crime . . . military issue arms are a fairly recent addition to tribal fighting.
Crime

Leaders of PNG’s Enga province plagued by violence – vow to...

"The rules-based international order is a system that shields the powerful and abandons the vulnerable"
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Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order

A "release the Palestinian hostages" placard at today's Red Ribbon Campaign protest
Asia Report

Protesters demand freedom for 9000+ Palestinian ‘political prisoners’ held hostage by...

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PNG police and crime . . . military issue arms are a fairly recent addition to tribal fighting.

Leaders of PNG’s Enga province plagued by violence – vow to...

February 1, 2026
"The rules-based international order is a system that shields the powerful and abandons the vulnerable"

Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order

February 1, 2026
A "release the Palestinian hostages" placard at today's Red Ribbon Campaign protest

Protesters demand freedom for 9000+ Palestinian ‘political prisoners’ held hostage by...

January 31, 2026
"Either the Iran death toll is massively inflated, or the Gaza death toll is a massive underestimate

Jonathan Cook: BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on...

January 31, 2026
Step back from your stupidity. Submit your claims to scrutiny

Open letter: Seven warning signals to the global warmongers who are...

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