Monthly Archives: August 2022

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs and Richard Jackson in Dunedin The New Zealand government’s silence on the thousands of Palestinian deaths in the ongoing Gaza conflict...

By Lorraine Wohi in Port Moresby The Bank of Papua New Guinea's Financial Analysis and Supervision Unit has reported more than 5000 cases as a...

RNZ News Auckland University of Technology has unreservedly apologised to a former academic turned Australian MP for its botched handling of her complaint regarding sexual...

RNZ News Floods have struck the West Papuan city of Sorong following heavy rains early this week. There are reports of 1.5 metre-high flooding and landslides...

RNZ Pacific The Chief Justice of Vanuatu has ordered the amendment of a constitutional application against the dissolution of Parliament to exclude the president of...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The ABC has soundly condemned the Solomon Islands Office of the Prime Minister for a series of "factual errors" in a...

By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape delivered a shock yesterday when he announced his full cabinet, with...

By Hilaire Bule, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Port Vila Scores of homes near the Vanuatu capital Port Vila which were deemed illegal dwellings have been...

ANALYSIS: By Orovu Sepoe, Lesley Clark and Teddy Winn The results of the 2022...

RNZ News New Zealand police praised how an anti-government protest at Parliament unfolded today, saying there were no arrests and no trespass orders issued. Police estimated...

RNZ Pacific The Solomon Islands government has secured a US$66 million (NZ$106 million) loan from China for tech giant Huawei to expand the country's telecommunications...

By Jeffrey Elapa of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Madang MP Bryan Kramer, who held the police, justice and later immigration portfolios in the...

By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Four prominent Papua New Guinean political leaders are on the police radar for their alleged...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister of Finance Grant Robertson used today's post-cabinet briefing to discuss the shifting ownership of the...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University Crisis is a word often used in politics and the media -- the covid crisis, the housing crisis,...

By Anish Chand in Suva Inadequate parental support and the lack of parental engagement with education stakeholders are resulting in boys’ disengagement from education in...

By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia's Melanesian province of Papua has expressed support for a call from the Papuan Student Association...

By Rebecca Kuku of The National, Papua New Guinea One of the survivors of a horrifying sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) attack and torture of nine...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer A documentary from Stuff Circuit this week delved into Aotearoa New Zealand's growing extreme far-right and anti-vax movement. Why did...

PNG Post-Courier The Southern Highlands capital -- Mendi -- has turned into a battlefield in Papua New Guinea this week as supporters of different candidates...

IndoLeft News Indonesia's Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy says that the presidential decree (Keppres) on the formation of a team for the non-judicial resolution...

RNZ Pacific Residents of Nelson in Aotearoa New Zealand's South Island are cleaning up and counting the cost of flood damage across the region, while...