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UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a blistering report on media complicity in war crimes as Israelis headed to the polls. Michael West Media reports. REVIEW: By Aleta Moriarty Israeli...

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report In what is probably one of its most shameful acts...

Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and...

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

REVIEW: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report I have watched the most disturbing film in my lifetime...

Fiji President welcomes inclusive ‘new dawn’ for Great Council of Chiefs

By Iliesa Tora and Kelvin Anthony Chiefs are to serve people and not to be served, Fiji President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere told the Great Council...

Timor-Leste’s opposition party wins election ‘punishing’ ruling Fretilin coalition

ABC Pacific Beat Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the parliamentary election, but the country’s first president may contest the count after his party...

France briefs UN on New Caledonia decolonisation impasse

By Walter Zweifel French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia. Controlled by France since 1853, New...

Blinken, Daki sign controversial US-PNG defence pact after day of protests

The National, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea yesterday intialled a defence cooperation agreement with the United States amid day-long protests against the signing by...

‘Two-way highway’ – PNG-US defence pact signed in spite of protests

By Lydia Lewis and Scott Waide in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says the increased United States security involvement in Papua...

The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this year’s referendum in...