Monday, February 23, 2026

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CLIMATE CHANGE

Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels
Australia

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SPECIAL REPORT: By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist Last week, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said Aotearoa's immigration settings were "no way to...
The "Blood on your hands" protest at the US Consulate
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report Two Extinction Rebellion activists joined the speakers today at an Auckland protest over Israel’s genocide and ecocide in Gaza and occupied Palestine,...
Gaza and Rocket Lab protesters on Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau's Queens Wharf

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Taane Aruka Te Aho

Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson

FEATURES AND ANALYSIS

The council president is not merely a passive moderator but a pacesetter, agenda-shaper, balance-keeper
Analysis

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ANAYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The global human rights landscape has witnessed a significant diplomatic milestone. Indonesia, for the first time since the body's establishment...
"I have a personal memory of meeting Jesse Jackson"

"Compulsory training in any particular ideology -- Zionism, fascism, liberalism -- is a body blow against university independence"

Senator Lindsey Graham (left) and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Author Eugene Doyle with Special Envoy Francesca Albanese

Police brutality at the protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Sydney on February 9

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Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler
Civil Society

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OBITUARY: By David Robie Roger Norman Fowler: 12 September 1948 – 21 February 2026 Roger Fowler, an activist legend of social justice solidarity movements from Bastion...
Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels
Australia

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SPECIAL REPORT: By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist Last week, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said Aotearoa's immigration settings were "no way to...
The "Blood on your hands" protest at the US Consulate

The council president is not merely a passive moderator but a pacesetter, agenda-shaper, balance-keeper

The Palau Senate

"I have a personal memory of meeting Jesse Jackson"

INSTITUTIONS

Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler
Civil Society

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OBITUARY: By David Robie Roger Norman Fowler: 12 September 1948 – 21 February 2026 Roger Fowler, an activist legend of social justice solidarity movements from Bastion...
Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels
Australia

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SPECIAL REPORT: By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist Last week, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said Aotearoa's immigration settings were "no way to...
The "Blood on your hands" protest at the US Consulate

The council president is not merely a passive moderator but a pacesetter, agenda-shaper, balance-keeper

The Palau Senate

"I have a personal memory of meeting Jesse Jackson"

MEDIA

Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler
Civil Society

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OBITUARY: By David Robie Roger Norman Fowler: 12 September 1948 – 21 February 2026 Roger Fowler, an activist legend of social justice solidarity movements from Bastion...
"I have a personal memory of meeting Jesse Jackson"
Civil Society

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COMMENTARY: By Moana Maniapoto Known globally as one of America's most prominent and inspiring civil rights leaders, Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr twice ran for US...
Palestinian journalist Abdelhameed Hamdona

AJ+ senior presenter/producer Dena Takruri

Senator Lindsey Graham (left) and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Police brutality at the protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Sydney on February 9

SPORTS

Dumped All Blacks coach Scott Roberston
Global

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By Adam Burns, RNZ News reporter There has been mixed reaction in parts of New Zealand's red-and-black country -- Canterbury -- following the shock axing...
Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua
Civil Society

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By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, Iliesa Tora, and Christina Persico A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King's Birthday honours...
The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes

In the wake of an ugly eruption of violence on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2024, the Western media coverage of the story was put under the microscope

An artist's impression of Quay Park stadium - Te Tōangaroa

Pride Marianas founder Roberto Santos

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

Papua New Guinea . . . on the "grey list"
Business

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By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea is under a close watch for money laundering, running a risk of being abandoned by global...
East Sepik Governor Allan Bird . . . similar risks to last year in this year's budget with overly optimistic revenue forecasts
Democracy

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By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea's 2026 National Budget has drawn immediate opposition criticism from East Sepik Governor Allan Bird, who...
NZ Defence Minister Judith Collins

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Fiji Trades Union Congress board member Daniel Urai (left) and Fiji Trade Union Congress national secretary Felix Anthony

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

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PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

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RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa has advised Samoa's head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can...
John Miller's photograph of the 1975 Land March held up in the same location at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke Wellington.

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RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...
Pacific Prana

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Asia Pacific Report An exhibition from Tara Arts International has been brought to The University of the South Pacific as part of the Pacific International...
Jubilant scenes at the end of FestPAC 2024

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RNZ Pacific The director of the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture Dr Aaron Sala says "it's up to all Pacific nations and their ancestors...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Gaza and Rocket Lab protesters on Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau's Queens Wharf
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report New Zealand protesters have again spotlighted the country’s stake in US space militarisation today and speakers branded Rocket Lab as an alleged...
Taiātea Symposium at Waitangi 2026
Cook Islands

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By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist As Waitangi Day commemorations continue drawing people from across Aotearoa and around the world to the Bay of...
Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga

Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

Protesters at an Auckland rally against Israel's genocidal two-year war on Gaza target alleged complicity by RocketLab and BlackSky

Pacific climate digital strategy for the International Court of Justice

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New Zealand author David Robie
Climate

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A transition in global emphasis from "nuclear to climate crisis survivors", plus new geopolitical exposés. REVIEW: By Amit Sarwal of The Australia Today Forty years after...
Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

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