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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...

Papuan church leaders call on Jokowi to stop military ops over NZ pilot

Jubi News in Jayapura Church leaders across denominations in Papua have urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to stop military operations and to promote a humanitarian...

PNG authorities try to quell unrest after 16 prisoners on run shot dead

RNZ Pacific A curfew has been imposed in part of Papua New Guinea and extra police have been moved in to quell unrest over the...

Rich-lister supports NZ capital gains tax as new research opens fresh debate

By Anneke Smith One of New Zealand’s wealthiest people says he supports a capital gains tax, as new research lays the groundwork for a fresh...

‘I’m alive, healthy . . . stop the bombs,’ says kidnapped NZ pilot in new West Papua video

RNZ Pacific New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens, who is being held by pro-independence fighters in West Papua, appears well in a newly-released video. It comes as...

Decolonisation tensions rise in New Caledonia as Kanaks accuse France of opposing ‘wind of history’

By Walter Zweifel New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party has been told that France is “panicking” and afraid of losing New Caledonia. The head of the Caledonian...

Less than illustrious: remembering the Anzacs means also not forgetting some committed war crimes

ANALYSIS: By Jeffrey McNeill It was observed that the English had slain wounded and captured German prisoners. So reads a disturbing war diary entry of...