Saturday, February 28, 2026

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CLIMATE CHANGE

“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film
Asia Report

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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
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

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

FEATURES AND ANALYSIS

Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim
Analysis

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Amnesty International Amnesty International has condemned Israeli authorities over unleashing a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank...
Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte

Social justice and Palestine campaigner Roger Fowler

Community and social justice activist Roger Fowler

Iran’s navy successfully launched the Sayyad-3G naval air defence missile

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

MULTIMEDIA

HUMAN RIGHTS

New UK Green Party member Hannah Spencer
Decolonisation

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Novara Media In a spectacular triumph, Britain's Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton byelection in Greater Manchester. Local plumber Hannah Spencer has now become...
Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim
Analysis

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Amnesty International Amnesty International has condemned Israeli authorities over unleashing a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank...
Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte

Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades

Preparations for the FLNKS "National Unity" list for the local elections due in New Caledonia

Social justice and Palestine campaigner Roger Fowler

INSTITUTIONS

New UK Green Party member Hannah Spencer
Decolonisation

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Novara Media In a spectacular triumph, Britain's Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton byelection in Greater Manchester. Local plumber Hannah Spencer has now become...
Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim
Analysis

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Amnesty International Amnesty International has condemned Israeli authorities over unleashing a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank...
Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte

Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades

Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters

Preparations for the FLNKS "National Unity" list for the local elections due in New Caledonia

MEDIA

Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte
Analysis

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Did ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s actions merit an ICC trial? Here is how the prosecution, the victims’ representatives, and the defence are presenting their cases...
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...
Social justice and Palestine campaigner Roger Fowler

“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Activist, community strategist and musician 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

LATEST REVIEWS

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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