Tuesday, March 3, 2026

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Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua
Asia Report

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REVIEW: Jubi Media Yasinta Moiwend was startled when, on a quiet morning, a massive ship docked at her village pier in West Papua. The vessel carried...
“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film
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Pacific Media Watch A world premiere of a new documentary revealing the devastation of rainforest in the southeastern part of West Papua is one of...
Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels

The "Blood on your hands" protest at the US Consulate

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"

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If the US can install another puppet in Tehran as obedient as the Shah after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s refineries will once again be at the mercy of US oil companies
Analysis

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COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Funny . . . back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his...
The first satellite image of the bombing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran on the opening day of the surprise and illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran
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ANALYSIS: By Shannon Brincat and Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran represent a further erosion of the international legal order. Under...
"The terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than 150 children this week"

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

The Iranian Red Crescent reports US and Israeli attacks on areas close to medical and humanitarian facilities

A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions

INSTITUTIONS

If the US can install another puppet in Tehran as obedient as the Shah after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s refineries will once again be at the mercy of US oil companies
Analysis

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COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Funny . . . back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his...
Iran's Ambassador Reza Nazar Ahari
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report Iran's ambassador to New Zealand says the joint US and Israeli strikes on his country need stronger condemnation, reports TV1 News. Ambassador Reza...
The first satellite image of the bombing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran on the opening day of the surprise and illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran

"The terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than 150 children this week"

The Iranian Red Crescent reports US and Israeli attacks on areas close to medical and humanitarian facilities

A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions

MEDIA

Trump and Netanyahu claim the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed
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ANALYSIS: By Glenn Greenwald For decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American neoconservatives have dreamed of only one foreign policy goal -- having the...
Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua
Asia Report

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REVIEW: Jubi Media Yasinta Moiwend was startled when, on a quiet morning, a massive ship docked at her village pier in West Papua. The vessel carried...
Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut

Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte

Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters

Social justice and Palestine campaigner Roger Fowler

SPORTS

Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters
Democracy

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By Christine Rovoi of PMN News The arrest and charging of British-Fijian publisher Charlie Charters has pushed Fiji’s anti-corruption watchdog into fresh controversy. Charters' arrest by...
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

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

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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Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua
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REVIEW: Jubi Media Yasinta Moiwend was startled when, on a quiet morning, a massive ship docked at her village pier in West Papua. The vessel carried...
New Zealand author David Robie

Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad

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