Yearly Archives: 2020

By RNZ Pacific The chair of the Pasifika GP Network is calling on the government to ensure there is a Pacific voice on the new...
US President Donald Trumpvideo

Politicians react to US President Donald Trump's earlier mocking of New Zealand. Video: RNZ News By RNZ News US President Donald Trump has again called New...
Samoan community

By RNZ Pacific Samoa's Director-General of Health says the country remains free of the covid-19 coronavirus so the public should not believe rumours to the...
Need work

COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce I live in Auckland. Last night while driving home around 8pm I passed a small roadside car park with about 10...
Gary Juffa

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Oro Governor Gary Juffa has welcomed a joint investigations team, led by Papua New Guinea's Office of Immigrations and Citizenship Authority,...
PM Jacindar Ardern + Dr Ashley Bloomfield

By Ben Strang, RNZ News Reporter The New Zealand government is being urged to launch an inquiry into its response to the covid-19 pandemic as...
NZ level 4 lockdown

By Jonathan Mitchell, RNZ News journalist New Zealand's Attorney-General David Parker says there has been no decision yet on a possible appeal to the High...

By Fidelis Eka Satriastanti, The Conversation Indigenous people fought alongside youth movements in the creation of an Indonesian nation. But, in the historical writing of...
Pop-up covid testing

COMMENT: By Teuila Fuatai South Auckland and its communities, specifically Pasifika, are at the centre of New Zealand's current covid-19 cluster. As a result, media coverage,...
PNG schools

By Aileen Kwaragu in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean parents have been assured that everything is being done to ensure the health and safety of...
Chantelle Khan

By RNZ Pacific Plans for spending NZ$5.3 on construction of the Fiji Prime Minister's new office should be diverted to people affected by the covid-19...
FB Censorship

COMMENT: By David Robie The silence from Facebook is deafening and disturbing. At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over the...
Dr Ashley Bloomfield

By RNZ News New Zealand reported 13 new confirmed cases of covid-19 in the community today and no new cases in managed isolation facilities. Director-General of...
Masked PNG schoolchildren

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Schools in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District resumed yesterday, with strict covid-19 protocols in place, and with several turning away...
Alf Filipaina

By Jean Bell, RNZ News journalist Some South Auckland locals are hitting back at online hate directed at the area and its Pasifika community,...
Buimo Jail near Lae

By Marjorie Finkeo and Joan Bailey in Lae Eleven prisoners have been shot dead in Papua New Guinea, one was recaptured and 33 others are...
The Bougainvillean

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A new newspaper was launched on Bougainville today coinciding with the historic first elections since last year's non-binding referendum that voted...

By RNZ News Journalists in Tonga are angry at new regulations they say clamp down on media freedom. The Ministry of Communication passed eight regulations in...

By RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has moved the election date by four weeks to October 17 and says she will not...
Papuan student protest Bali

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Bali chapter of the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) has held a weekend protest action at the Renon traffic circle in...
David Shanks

By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist As covid-19 spreads around the world, it can be daunting keeping up with the information. For RNZ, the news...
Tai Tokerau Border Control

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Auckland, 4pm Saturday, August 15: 50,000 vehicles stopped, less than 700 turned back. These statistics yesterday were "frightening", says Hone Harawira of...