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Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation

Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the...

Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week announced a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Attack and antisemitism....

Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure from the Murdoch News...

New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their...

Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?

COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn...

Pacific journalists are strong and ‘it’s up to us’, says honoured Barbara Dreaver

By Khalia Strong Barbara Dreaver is a familiar face on Aotearoa New Zealand television screens, beloved to some, and feared by others who have been...

Israel and its allies are repurposing the goals and lies of 1948 – in Gaza in 2023

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Yet, just as happened with the first Nakba in 1948, Israel’s lies...

Why West Papuans are raising a banned independence flag across Australia, NZ and the Pacific

BACKGROUNDER: By Stefan Armbruster On 1 December each year, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, a small group of West Papuan immigrants and refugees...

Nine editors double down in ‘tense’ war on Gaza editorial ban meeting

By Cam Wilson in Sydney A senior Nine staff journalist has resigned and readers are angrily cancelling their newspaper subscriptions as Sydney Morning Herald and...

IFJ condemns deputy PM’s comments as threat to NZ press freedom

Pacific Media Watch Journalists and media workers have criticised comments made by Aotearoa New Zealand’s newly-elected Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters — who claimed that...

Since the war on Gaza began, violence against Palestinians has surged in the West Bank

ANALYSIS: By Tristan Dunning and Martin Kear While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli attacks on...