Monthly Archives: January 2023

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis It is unlikely that the Mayor of Auckland, Wayne Brown, took any lessons from the city’s devastating floods but the rest...

RNZ Pacific The headquarters of the Malvatumauri of National Council of Chiefs of Vanuatu has burned down. The fire broke out about 1am Monday local time. Police...

RNZ News Auckland mayor Wayne Brown is under fire for calling New Zealand journalists "drongos", blaming them for having to cancel a round of tennis...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence Union Calédonian has proposed September 24 this year as the date by which an accord be reached with France to...

Pacific Media Watch Radio Australia's Pacific Beat reports today on how Fiji has fared under the draconian Media Act that has restricted media freedom over...

Asia Pacific Report Greenpeace claimed today claimed New Zealand's extreme rain and flooding crisis in the North Island at the weekend as a "climate disaster". "As...

By Wata Shaw in Suva Fijian Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) chief executive officer Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum’s employment status has been terminated, new board chair Ajay Bhal Amrit...

RNZ News A fourth person has been found dead as a result of New Zealand's catastrophic floods on Friday, which have now spread to other...

By Barbara Dreaver, 1News Pacific correspondent The Moungavalu family in Aotearoa New Zealand are grateful to be alive. Their Māngere home in Auckland, along with others...

By Red Tsounga First came the devastating flash floods in Auckland on Friday night. Then came the huge effort to help families evacuate to community...

RNZ News The belt of torrential rain which has brought flooding and slips across northern New Zealand is currently mainly centred over the Waikato and...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Service Improvement Programme worth more than K1 billion (NZ$440 million) has become a major cash cow for “irresponsible” leaders, says...

ANALYSIS: By James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The extraordinary flood event Auckland experienced on the night of January 27, the...

RNZ News Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has acknowledged the way Aucklanders have come together and opened their homes to those in need, with the New...

COMMENTARY: By Richard Naidu in Suva Breakfast they say, is the most important meal of the day. But last Wednesday it was possibly also the most...

RNZ News Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty has asked for communication on support after the severe thunderstorm in Auckland to be stepped up. It comes...

COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel in Tāmaki Makaurau The weather is all over the show, the storm water system clearly hopelessly inadequate, the house prices are...

RNZ News Three people are dead and at least one person is missing following the flooding overnight in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city. About 1000 people...

ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, Massey University With a new prime minister sworn in and a cabinet reshuffle imminent, it is no exaggeration to say the...

RNZ News Mayor Wayne Brown has shut down criticism that he was too slow in declaring a state of emergency after severe flooding in Auckland,...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The government of Tokelau has declared the results of the 2023 national general elections. Voting took place on all three...

RNZ Pacific The President of Fiji has suspended the country's chief of police and its head of prison services following advice from the Constitutional Offices...