Monthly Archives: September 2020

By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist New Zealand health authorities have reported a surge in the number of people returning to the country from India...

By Indria Fernida in Jakarta Yesterday, 16 years ago, Munir Said Thailb, a defender of human rights, was murdered with arsenic poison aboard a Garuda...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Sex workers have urged the Papua New Guinea government to pass a law to protect them after one of...

ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Commercial broadcasting company MediaWorks has agreed to sell its television channels to Discovery Inc. The US-based global entertainment company...

By RNZ News New Zealand's MediaWorks has confirmed it will sell its television operations to US company Discovery Inc. The deal includes channels Three and Bravo,...

The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange, a film by Juan Passarelli @jlpassarelli By Simon Floth in Armidale, NSW Julian Assange is scheduled to...

By Philip Cass in Auckland “Tonga does not interfere in other nations’ own affairs.” That was the carefully measured response from Prime Minister Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa to the...

ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter This week The New Zealand Herald admitted a story about resentment of Auckland's covid-19 lockdowns didn’t quite...

TRIBUTE: Dr Collin Tukuitonga farewells his mentor, Dr Joe Williams, who died on Friday night after a battle with covid-19.  I have a lot for...

By Rashneel Kumar in Avarua Former Cook Islands Prime Minister Dr Joe Williams died last night after a battle with coronavirus. He was 82. Dr Williams,...

By Kaniva News Senior officials from Australia’s Foreign Affairs Department have admitted they are investigating  the concept of a “grand compact” with some small Pacific...

By Lena Reece in Suva The University of the South Pacific Council has terminated the investigation into allegations of material misconduct against USP vice-chancellor and...

By RNZ News A man in his 50s linked to the Auckland cluster of covid-19 coronavirus infections has died at Middlemore Hospital today - New...

By Jimmy Kalebe in Lae A group of 31 men on remand have escaped from a Papua New Guinea police station holding facility in Lae...

Pacific Media Watch The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) have condemned the global tech giant Facebook's threat to...

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter Allegations of casual and structural racism within the University of Waikato have been met with...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre Six years on from being appointed head of the Pacific Community, Director-General Collin Tukuitonga, a boy...

ANALYSIS: By Dave Parry, Auckland University of Technology The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has issued a warning to all New Zealand businesses to be...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Brisbane-based Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom calls for Chinese authorities to provide due process to Australian television journalist Cheng Lei and...

COMMENT: By Camille Nakhid How racially prejudiced is Aotearoa New Zealand? Well, we saw just how racially prejudiced it is a weekend ago when a...

By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Centre A New Zealand youth MP Shaneel Lal is speaking out against education policies that exclude some Pacific Island...

By RNZ News The Christchurch mosque shooter has been designated as a "terrorist entity" by the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The designation under New...