Yearly Archives: 2021
Covid-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters in any of...
ANALYSIS: By Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Nguyen Doan, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
What have...
Nine Australians fighting for gender equality and making a difference
ANALYSIS: By Blair Williams, Australian National University
It feels like every day brings more harrowing claims of harassment, bullying and abuse of women in Australia's...
‘Don’t put all eggs in one basket with China,’ warns Mahuta
RNZ News
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta has urged New Zealand to diversify its trade arrangements and not put all its eggs in one basket...
Bainimarama blames ‘protocol breach’ for second Fiji community covid case
By Praneeta Prakash in Suva
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says a breach in protocol in relation to the 53-year-old woman now testing positive of...
Beach body off Pacific LPG ship throws Vanuatu capital into covid lockdown
The Pacific Newsroom
Vanuatu's capital island of Efate has gone into covid-19 lockdown for three days after a body was found on a beach near...
Trans-Tasman bubble opens – data key to other bubbles opening, says PM
RNZ News
While the trans-Tasman bubble today is "a significant day" for New Zealanders, any moves to open the borders to other countries will need...
SAFEnet finds digital attacks targeted academics, journalists and activists
By Dian Erika Nugraheny in Jakarta
The Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) recorded 147 digital attacks in Indonesia during 2020, the majority...
West Papua action group raises human rights issues with Taieri MP
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The local West Papua action group in Dunedin has met Taieri MP Ingrid Leary and raised human rights and militarisation issues...
We know how to cut off the financial valve to Myanmar’s military. The world...
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Liljeblad, Australian National University
Since the coup in Myanmar on February 1, the international community has struggled to agree on coherent action...
Severe floods hit Timor-Leste capital Dili in Easter disaster
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Much of the Timor-Leste capital of Dili has been heavily flooded with rivers bursting their banks after three days of heavy...
Hundreds mass at Dili’s exit points in bid try to flee Timorese capital
By Antonio Sampaio in Dili
Hundreds of people, many of them students, mobbed exit routes out of the Timorese capital Dili on Good Friday seeking...
Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise go wrong?
COMMENT: By Jackson Kiakari in Port Moresby
I am from the Papua New Guinea generation that was born in the 1980s, raised in the 1990s...
Chinese worker’s absconding charge dropped but still to be deported
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Chinese worker who left police custody on the way to the airport on Thursday night had a charge of absconding...
Yes, politicians need to change the way they treat women. But so, too, do...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne
There has been a lot of talk lately about the need for cultural change in Australia's Parliament...
NZ part of worldwide corruption surveys whitewash?
By Jason Brown in Auckland
Worldwide anti-corruption rankings – or first world whitewash?
Long-standing questions about the fairness of corruption ratings and rankings from Transparency...
Designating OPM as terrorists will ‘increase tension, rights abuses’
By Arjuna Pademme in Jayapura
The Indonesian government appears to be at a loss about how to quell the struggle of the Free Papua Organisation...
Myanmar: The student voice as frontliners tackle the junta
SPECIAL REPORT: By Graeme Acton
As the military junta in Myanmar continues its brutal attempt to subdue nationwide protests following February's coup, New Zealand-based Myanmar...
Don’t rely on Facebook for accurate vaccine info, says PNG leader
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister has warned citizens against relying on information on Facebook to guide their approach to vaccines.
James Marape was speaking...
Ena Manuireva: AUT can – and should – do better
COMMENTARY: A postgraduate researcher view by Ena Manuireva
Year 2020 was the annus horribilis worldwide due to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Recently the Fiji government...
Indonesian racism against indigenous Papuans ‘flourishing’, say protesters
By Reiner Brabar in Sorong, West Papua
Scores of activists from the Papua People's Solidarity Against Racism (SPMR) have held a free speech forum in...
Experts appointed to oversee NZ’s new public digital media plan
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
The New Zealand government has appointed eight people to oversee a business case for a new public media entity...
West Sepik administration fumes over handling of Papua border crossers
By Jeffrey Elapa in Vanimo, PNG
The West Sepik administration is not happy with the way illegal border crossers are being handled by the Indonesian...