Monthly Archives: February 2022
Rebuilding post-eruption Tonga: 4 key lessons from Fiji after Cyclone Winston
ANALYSIS: By Suzanne Wilkinson, Mohamed Elkharboutly and Regan Potangaroa, Massey University
While news from Tonga is still disrupted following the massive undersea eruption and tsunami...
New Zealand posts record 243 new daily covid cases in community
RNZ News
New Zealand has recorded its highest number of community cases in one day, with 243 new cases reported today.
The previous highest number of...
Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business School
ANALYSIS: By Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne; Alexandra Wake, RMIT University, and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University
News Corp Australia and Google have announced the...
Chaos as PNG airlines cancel flights with majority of staff off sick
By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby
Air travellers were left stranded and fuming country-wide as airlines Air Niugini and PNG Air hit a rough patch...
NZ deserves far more respect for keeping covid deaths so low
ANALYSIS: By Peter Davis
With the arrival of the omicron variant on our shores, it is hard to believe, judging by the media coverage --...
Iwi clinic egged as anti-vaxxers force caution in vaccine rollout for tamariki
By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporting
Māori health providers in Aotearoa New Zealand are holding back on covid-19 vaccinations for children in the face of...
Afghan women challenge pregnant NZ journalist’s ‘reality under the Taliban’
RNZ News
Afghan women are accusing the Taliban of using a pregnant New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can...
Three PNG government agencies have power to censor Facebook
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby
Censoring of Facebook in Papua New Guinea can be addressed by three mandated government agencies, says Chief Censor Jim...
Covid-19: Border to reopen for New Zealanders end of February
RNZ News
New Zealanders in Australia will be able to return home by the end of the month under a five-stage reopening plan announced by...
Covering Tonga’s volcano eruption – without communications
This video shares the ham radio communication efforts for disaster relief after the Hungas twin eruotions in Tonga on January 15. Video: Ham...
Cartoons: Malcolm Evans – World condemns apartheid state
PSNA welcomes Amnesty International declaration of Israel as an apartheid state
Three new covid-19 cases in Tonga as kingdom enters lockdown
By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists
Three new covid-19 cases have been confirmed in the kingdom of Tonga bringing the total number...
NZ shortens vaccine booster interval to 3 months for omicron ‘head start’
RNZ News
New Zealand is shortening the gap between second and third doses of the covid-19 vaccine from four months to three, the government has...
Most challenging phase of omicron outbreak yet to come, but New Zealand may be...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury; Anna Howe, University of Auckland, and Lukas Marek, University of Canterbury
Within a month of the first community...
Tonga to enter lockdown after port workers test positive for covid-19
RNZ Pacific
The kingdom of Tonga will go into nationwide lockdown from 6pm tonight.
Speaking via Tongan radio, Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni and Minister of Health...
Pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis offered a place in MIQ
RNZ News
Pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis says her re-activated emergency MIQ application has been approved, and she will return to New Zealand in March.
Deputy Prime...
Muzhgan Samarqandi: MIQ debate trivialises the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan
OPEN LETTER: A reply to New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis from Afghanistani mother and former broadcaster Muzhgan Samarqandi
My name is Muzhgan Samarqandi and I...
Papuan students appeal for meeting with President Jokowi to air grievances
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A global Papuan students abroad umbrella organisation has appealed for a meeting with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to air their grievances...
Vanuatu back in UN ‘good books’ – pays fees, regains voting rights
By Anita Roberts and Kizzy Kalsakau in Port Vila
Vanuatu has now regained its United Nations voting rights after recently being denied the right over...
PNG interim restraining order over eviction of homeless Morata settlers
PNG Post-Courier
Papua's Guinea's National Court has issued an interim restraining order stopping the planned eviction of thousands of Morata settlers on portion 2733 in...
