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Andrew Mathieson

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About Andrew Mathieson

Andrew Mathieson has been reporting on news and sport since 1996. He has written for The Age, The Examiner, Cairns Post, NT News, The Geelong Independent, Canberra City News, The Pacific Advocate, CHOICE among other outlets. His media career has also included a stint for the Indigenous Marathon Foundation in Canberra as the Head of the Communications and Marketing. Andrew started reporting for the National Indigenous Times in 2022.

All Articles by Andrew Mathieson
Pacific states urge Jakarta to allow UN access to West Papua at New York general assembly

Pacific leaders used their address at the 81st session of United Nations general assembly to urge Indonesia to permit the UN Human Rights High Commissioner unrestricted access to visit West Papua.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 29, 2026
Climate change legal precedents begin to unravel Pacific culture's emerging rights

Rising seas and environmental degradation are disrupting traditional Pacific practices, eroding Indigenous cultural connections and severing their relationships with ancestral lands and oceans accordi...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 28, 2026
Pacific leadership elevates regional priorities onto global agenda

Pacific Islands Forum leaders travelled to New York to stand together as a unified regional voice at the 81st session of the United Nations general assembly this week.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 25, 2026
Malind-Anim Indigenous people lose West Papuan forest court battle under Indonesian law

A court has rejected the Malind-Anim Indigenous community's legal challenge to protect a West Papuan ancestral forest from a planned agricultural development.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 24, 2026
Inuit lifestyle set to be affected as Greenland accepts greater US militarisation

The latest agreement between the US Trump administration, Denmark and Greenland is likely to affect where Inuit people live, hunt, travel and possibly exercise its own self-government, a former Greenl...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 23, 2026
Chinese miner pays exorbitant price to take control of PNG mines

A Chinese state-backed company has spent more than $A1 billion to acquire the mines and port facilities on three of Papua New Guinea's islands.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 22, 2026
Amnesty International demands an end to killings in West Papua

Amnesty International is appealing tor all armed organisations to lay down their guns and stop the killing of West Papuan civilians in the occupied Indigenous territory.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 21, 2026
Latest figures on West Papuan deaths tell a grim story

Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights has counted 109 people have officially been killed or seriously injured in violence from the ongoing armed conflict across the West Papua territory in t...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 18, 2026
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