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    • Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm
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A sandalwood oil factory in flames on Maré Island
Crime

Violent weekend brawl, clashes rock Greater Nouméa area

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March 11, 2025
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Centre for Pacific and Global Health co-director Sir Collin Tukuitonga
Health and Fitness

NZ bowel cancer screening changes ‘driven by ideology, not facts’

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A Filipino "Women unite to eliminate violence and war" placard
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Hamas accuses Israel of ‘cheap blackmail’ as Gaza electricity cut-off widely...

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March 10, 2025
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Thousands took part in last week's International Women's Day rally
Australia

Thousands in Melbourne rally for International Women’s Day, Gaza

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March 10, 2025
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Marshall Islands Journal editor Giff Johnson
Democracy

Concern US presence could run against Marshall Islands nuclear-free treaty

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March 10, 2025
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The Listening Post on Gaza truth-telling
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Israel resumes its war crimes in Gaza – AJ’s Listening...

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March 10, 2025
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Luamanuvao Winnie Laban and her husband Dr Peter Swain
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Luamanuvao reflects on International Women’s Day and ‘Pacific dreams’

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March 10, 2025
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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos
Democracy

Gavin Ellis: Amazon founder Bezos dims lights on democracy

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March 9, 2025
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Eugene Velasco of the progressive Filipino feminist NGO Gabriela
Asia Report

International Women’s Day activists protest in solidarity with Palestinians

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March 8, 2025
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Asia Report

Gallery: NZ women call for long-term peace and justice in Palestine

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March 8, 2025
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Rocky Roe on Lihir Island, New Ireland, in 2013
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"The genocide didn't stop"
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The world cannot ignore Trump’s death threat to my people of...

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March 8, 2025
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"What Trump and Musk and Vance and the supine Republicans are doing are installing an imperial, militaristic domestic dictatorship"
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Trump has ‘declared war against the American people’, says Ralph Nader

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March 7, 2025
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Culture

Gallery: Vanuatu ‘welcomes all’ to rebuilt traditional chiefs’ nakamal meeting house

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March 7, 2025
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NZ's major print media and radio company NZME
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Union wary of Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon’s NZ media influence

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March 6, 2025
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Protesting for Palestine in Australia
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Australian university workers: ‘We will not be silenced over Palestine’

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Cook Islands Christian Movement interim secretary William Framhein believes that the country should be declared a "Christian nation"
Cook Islands

Churches push for Cook Islands to be declared a Christian nation...

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The Marshall Islands suffered 67 known atmospheric nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958
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Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy

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March 5, 2025
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The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025
Cook Islands

Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

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March 5, 2025
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Community leaders and residents discuss priorities at the first Manurewa Pan-Pacific strategy workshop
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Manurewa’s first Pan-Pacific strategy aims to amplify Pasifika voices

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March 5, 2025
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Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt
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RSF slams ‘horrific conditions’ for journalists in Gaza in wake of...

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New Zealand protesters scale Christchurch arms company building accused over supplying sniper scopes
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NZ arms company building linked to Gaza genocide, claim peace activists

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March 4, 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
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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
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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
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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
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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"
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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
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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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QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
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Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm
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The MSG membership flags
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Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm
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Facilitators at a New Zealand public protest meeting in Auckland this week planning for a Global March for Palestine on October 10
Asia Report

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval

Leaders at the round table for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting Plenary in Koror, Palau
China

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The MSG membership flags
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Editor's Picks

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...

September 3, 2026
Facilitators at a New Zealand public protest meeting in Auckland this week planning for a Global March for Palestine on October 10

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval

September 3, 2026
Leaders at the round table for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting Plenary in Koror, Palau

Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’...

September 3, 2026
The MSG membership flags

Melanesian countries to review Indonesia’s status at MSG if no action...

September 3, 2026
Secular Jewish socialist and peace activist Tony Greenstein

The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs...

September 3, 2026
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