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Phil Twyford: Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995

MP Phil Twyford's speech while opening the Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995 exhibition at the Ellen Melville Centre today. By Phil Twyford Kia ora tatou. I...

David Robie condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific

Asia Pacific Report A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for...

The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap

COMMENTARY:  By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret...

Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice for Gaza

By David Robie Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free...

Caitlin Johnstone: The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the West

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of Westerners happily being...

Repeal ‘draconian’ MIDA Act, urge Fiji media and journalism stakeholders

By Kelvin Anthony The Fiji government is signalling that it will not completely tear down the country’s controversial media law which, according to local newsrooms...

Keeping the flow – the use of te reo Māori at NZ’s Parliament

By Johnny Blades An increased appetite to learn te reo Māori among members and staff from different parts of the Parliamentary system means the work...

The ‘death’ of journalism – may its memory be a blessing

Café Pacific A snippet shared about the ChatGPT debate from one of the gurus of investigative journalism, Sheila Coronel, at New York’s Columbia School of...

Palestinians uphold traditional Ramadan rituals – despite the Israeli Occupation

By Wafa Aludaini in Gaza During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims from all corners of the globe come together to celebrate. Each country has...

As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now

Monday’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has given a “final warning” to avert global catastrophe. Pacific cabinet ministers call on all world...

Pacific needs to sit up and pay close attention to AUKUS, says Dame Meg Taylor

By Koroi Hawkins and Caleb Fotheringham A Pacific elder and former secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum says Pacific leaders need to sit up and...