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      East Sepik Governor Allan Bird . . . similar risks to last year in this year's budget with overly optimistic revenue forecasts
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Pro-independence Progressist Union in Melanesia (UPM) leader Victor Tutugoro (centre with hat) and the party’s political bureau at a media conference this week in Nouméa
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Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum
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Former Samoan prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
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Newly elected Tongan noble Lord Ma'afu
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Tonga election: Two new lords as 9 noble seats decided

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November 20, 2025
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Feroz Aswat of Auckland Copiers and Solutions Ltd
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Fiji Business Awards celebrate big achievements from humble beginnings

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November 20, 2025
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President Prabowo and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sign an Australia–Indonesia Security Treaty on board HMAS Canberra
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Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua

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November 20, 2025
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The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force
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A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means...

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November 19, 2025
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Journalism Students' Association of USP . . . "The JSA is especially concerned that these attacks are eroding youth confidence in the [journalism] profession"
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Regional Pacific student journalists condemn Samoa PM’s ban as ‘deeply troubling’

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November 19, 2025
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Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt
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November 18, 2025
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New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil
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November 18, 2025
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The UN Security Council adopted the US-sponsored Gaza resolution 13 votes to nil
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November 18, 2025
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"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"
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Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

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November 18, 2025
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"If the Samoan Prime Minister is truly concerned about the vision of journalists, he need only look at those closest to him"
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Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise

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November 18, 2025
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JAWS president Lagi Keresoma
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Samoan PM bans nation’s only newspaper from government access

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November 18, 2025
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The pōwhiri for the start of the four-day WIPCE 2025
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World’s largest indigenous education conference kicks off in Auckland

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November 17, 2025
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Samoan PM La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt
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Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence

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November 17, 2025
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ABC's Fiji correspondent Lice Movono (from left), RNZ Pacific manager Moera Tuilaipa-Taylor and Islands Business editor Samantha Magick speaking during a women empowerment panel at the 2024 Pacific Media International conference
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November 17, 2025
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed on a placard at a New Zealand pro-Palestine rally
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Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet...

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November 16, 2025
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Pro-Palestinian activist Lamees Elthiny speaking to protesters in Auckland
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Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster...

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November 15, 2025
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Palestinian rally MC Lamees Elthiny speaks to a protest rally in Auckland today themed on the "BDS - Boycott Divestments Sanctions" campaign against New Zealand companies alleged to be complicit with Israel's genocide in Gaza
Asia Report

New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership

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November 15, 2025
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Pacific youth climate activist at a demonstration at COP27 in 2022
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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
Analysis

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
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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...

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

USP and AUT journalism collaboration
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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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