Politics

Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism. Jonathan Cook reflects on Israel’s...

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...

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...

Fiji’s Bainimarama, suspended police chief plead not guilty to abuse of office charges

By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and suspended Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho appeared before Suva Magistrates Court judge Justice Seini...

Fiji police apologise for West Papua politics ‘mix-up’ before Reclaim the Night march

Pacific Media Watch Fiji police have apologised for “miscommunication” that led to an incident before the Reclaim the Night march last night that almost led...

Wenda slams Jakarta’s ‘hypocrisy’ over support for Palestine, but denying West Papua

Asia Pacific Report The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has condemned an Indonesian government protest over Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka’s declared support for...

Indonesia protests over Fiji’s Rabuka backing Papuan independence leader

Asia Pacific Report Indonesia has protested to the Fiji government after Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka met with a Papuan independence leader in a morale boost...

RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an infamous protest

RNZ News It has been a year since the violent end of the illegal occupation at Parliament in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you thought you...

Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an insult

COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of 1News The appointment of Baron Waqa, former President of Nauru, to head the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) next...