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    • Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province
      Crime

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      Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate
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      A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide
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      Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

      Delphina Soti. the general manager of Vinnies Tāmaki Makaurau
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
Decolonisation

Rabuka’s message to free Kanaky movement: ‘Don’t slap the hand that...

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October 25, 2024
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who is currently in Apia for the 27th Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), was bestowed with a Samoan matai title
Cook Islands

‘We’ll be talking about the future of negotiations’, says Rabuka on...

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October 24, 2024
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Christchurch citizens hold up a "Stop the genocide" banner before yesterday's council vote
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NZ’s Labour calls on other cities to follow Israel boycott lead

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October 24, 2024
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Assassinated veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh
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UN rapporteur condemns Israeli ‘death sentence’ claim trying to silence last...

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October 24, 2024
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape with newly inaugurated Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
Asia Report

Indonesia to offer ‘amnesty’ for West Papuans contesting Jakarta’s rule

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October 24, 2024
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How the front page of today's Samoa Observer covered the arrival of King Charles
Climate

King Charles arrives in Samoa for ‘resilient environment’ CHOGM

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October 24, 2024
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FLNKS leader Christian Tein
Decolonisation

Kanak leader Christian Tein’s jailing in France overturned in new legal...

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October 23, 2024
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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair John Minto and University of Canterbury lecturer Dr Josephine Varghese speak at the Christchurch City Council meeting today
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NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements

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October 23, 2024
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"Multiple bodies" reported at the site of the Enga bus attack
Crime

Deadly bus ambush in PNG’s Enga province kills, wounds many

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October 23, 2024
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Kanak flags lifted high at a pro-independence rally in Nouméa
Analysis

New Caledonia crisis: Pacific leaders’ mission must ‘look beyond surface’

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October 23, 2024
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Global action to protect oceans from climate change
Climate

Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight...

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October 23, 2024
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President Prabowo Subianto
Analysis

Prabowo’s presidency sparks fear and faint hope in Indonesia’s contested Papua

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October 23, 2024
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The Panguna mine as seen in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea,
Bougainville

Rio Tinto class action begins over ‘toxic’ Bougainville mine disaster

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October 13, 2024
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Photojournalist Doaa al Baz working in Gaza
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One year of war in Gaza – protect journalists now, says...

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October 12, 2024
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West Papuan resistance over logging and mining projects
Analysis

West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific...

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October 12, 2024
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French Polynesian President Moetai Brotherson
Decolonisation

Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN

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October 11, 2024
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Part of the full page advertisement published by the Christchurch Star
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Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t...

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October 11, 2024
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Under the old regime, press barons, from William Randolph Hearst to Rupert Murdoch, at least pretended they were committed to truth-telling journalism
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Murdoch to Musk: how global media power has shifted from the...

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September 20, 2024
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Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Harsono
Crime

Discrimination faced by indigenous Papuans ‘isn’t something new’, says disturbing new...

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September 20, 2024
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2000 coup leader George Speight announcing at Parliament House in Suva on May 28 that he planned to rule Fiji by decree
Crime

Fiji 2000 coup leader George Speight granted presidential pardon

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September 20, 2024
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The two latest shootings in Kanaky New Caledonia bring the number of deaths in the Pacific territory to 13
Decolonisation

French police shoot dead two Kanaks in New Caledonian ‘assassinations’

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September 20, 2024
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Pacific flags -- Fiji and Tonga -- and protesters in support of Palestine at a rally in New Zealand's largest city Auckland
Asia Report

Seven Pacific no votes in ‘historic’ UN General Assembly demand for...

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September 19, 2024
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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
Analysis

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
Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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Jacinda Ardern
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Taiwan Day event in Suva
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Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province
Crime

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A focus on information-sharing between countries, which, on Fiji's part, requires a reform programme "to address fragmentation"
China

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Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate
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