Politics

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett  Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25. As a freelance photographer and videographer, she...

250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza

Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement...

Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes...

NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists

Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister...

21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Canberra will be expelling the Iranian ambassador...

‘Free Jimmy Lai now’ plea by RSF and 100 global media leaders

Pacific Media Watch More than 100 media leaders from around the world have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in signing an unprecedented joint statement expressing...

PNG beefs up security for visit of Biden, Modi, Pacific leaders

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Two American C-17 Globemaster transport planes will bring 20 vehicles to Papua New Guinea in the next few days...

Human rights arguments have lost credibility over West’s double standards

ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva At a time when the West has weaponised human rights, the United Nations body that promotes freedom of expression...

Nakba Day – 75 years of Palestinian statelessness, but also persistence

NAKBA DAY ADDRESS: By Rand Hazou Although Israelis celebrate 1948 as the birth of the Jewish nation, for Palestinians this date is referred to as...

Historic Girmit Day apology accepted as Fiji enters new era of unity and reconciliation

By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva History unfolded live at the Vodafone Arena at Laucala Bay in Suva yesterday when the Methodist Church of Fiji and...

Open letter plea for NZ to back West Papua peaceful hostage plan

Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand advocacy group has appealed to the government to heed the call of West Papuan church leaders for Indonesia to...