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I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide
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Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry
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Samoan Prime Minister La'auli and New Zealand's Christopher Luxon in Apia
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October 26, 2026
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“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.
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Shameful Israel move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

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How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy
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The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

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October 25, 2026
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Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre
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Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini
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October 24, 2026
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Palestinians in Gaza face a daily struggle for food
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Palestine Forum calls on NZ to act against ‘weaponised, engineered’ Gaza...

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October 24, 2026
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As a second-tier PIF partner, Israel will support Pacific development priorities in areas such as water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation
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‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s...

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PIF Secretary General Baron Divavesi Waqa welcomed Israel’s Ambassador to Fiji and Pacific Island Countries, Maya Yaron, and Head of MASHAV, Ambassador Eynat Shlein,
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Fiji Deputy PM Viliame Gavoka
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West Papuan researcher and human rights defender Rosa Moiwend
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West Papuan civil society calls for UN and Pacific access to...

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Gaza family tents as far as they eye can see
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NZ’s foreign policy obligation to confront Israel’s Gaza genocide

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Oceanographers deploy a buoy inside the Rose Atoll in American Samoa waters
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Environmental groups, chiefs file lawsuit as US pushes American Samoa deep...

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October 21, 2026
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Part of a fullpage Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) advertisement in The New Zealand Herald
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‘Please explain’, Palestine Forum tells NZ over Israeli-Pacific Islands Forum ‘partnership’

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October 21, 2026
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NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
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‘Serious questions to answer’ – Labour slams Luxon over Israel’s Pacific...

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October 21, 2026
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Israel joins Pacific Islands Forum as development partner

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October 21, 2026
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Sacha Roytman, chief executive of Combat Antisemitism Movement
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Israelis mislead Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism

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October 21, 2026
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US envoy to UN Tammy Bruce
American Samoa

US envoy seeks ‘termination’ of UN decolonisation committee, slams Pacific ‘junkets’

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October 20, 2026
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Children at the Global March for Palestine in Queen Street
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Palestine Forum calls for NZ action as 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza...

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October 20, 2026
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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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BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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
Analysis

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"
Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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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

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