Monthly Archives: October 2022

New Wellington mayor-elect Tory Whanau

RNZ News Wellington's Tory Whanau has convincingly won the mayoralty race for Te Whanganui-a-Tara in a triumph for diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand's local government...
Fa'anānā Efeso Collins (left) and Wayne Brown

By Jonty Dine, RNZ News reporter The race for the Auckland mayoralty ends this weekend in the Aotearoa New Zealand local elections and polls indicate...
A Papuan student protesting in Perth

Jubi/West Papua Daily Papuan students studying in Russia and Australia have appealed to the Indonesian government to respect the health rights of Papua Governor Lukas...
Women's Rugby World Cup 2022 likely stars

SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi The Red Roses of England are overwhelming favourites to win the 2022 Rugby World Cup being hosted by New Zealand...
UQ media briefing paper

UQ News Journalists may face decades in prison for "foreign interference" offences unless urgent changes are made to Australia’s national security laws, according to a...
Vlad Sokhin documents violence against PNG women

By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby The Post-Courier daily newspaper is one of 15 companies in Papua New Guinea that have pledged to fight against...
Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis New Zealand's Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, has given government agency media teams a well-deserved kick up the fundamental over some of their...
NCD Governor Powes Parkop

By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop wants the city’s police to fully investigate the gruesome murder...
TVNZ ... new public media bill policy ambiguity

ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The 980 submissions in response to the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill...
A Fijian meke wau (club dance)

By Rachael Nath of RNZ Pacific Concerns are being raised about the future survival of the iTaukei (Fijian) language as a threat of extinction looms...
AUT city campus in Auckland

RNZ News Thousands of New Zealand tertiary union members will go on strike at eight universities tomorrow over a cost of living pay demand. The Tertiary...
Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele

RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele says the country joined an agreement with the United States only after changes to wording relating to...
Oscar Temaru

RNZ Pacific Delegates from French Polynesia have flown to New York for the annual meeting of the UN Decolonisation Committee. The veteran pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru...