Monthly Archives: April 2023

Video report by Craig Reucassel With tourism back and booming, Fiji is again a number one destination for travellers seeking an island paradise experience. And while...

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist Unprecedented levels of disinformation will only get worse this election in Aotearoa New Zealand, but systems set...

By Anish Chand in Suva Post Fiji Ltd has engaged a law firm to recover $9.6 million from an Australia-based mail logistics company that used...

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in...

EDITORIAL: By the editor-in-chief Fred Wesley It’s gone! Finito! Yesterday was a memorable day for the media. The Media Industry Development Act was repealed in...

By Lydia Lewis and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific journalists The Fiji Parliament has voted to "kill" a draconian media law in Suva today, sending newsrooms...

By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva There was euphoria at the campus of the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva in Fiji last Thursday...

ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, Massey University Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as prime minister in January was a courageous and pragmatic decision for herself, her family and...

RNZ News Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has used her valedictory speech to Parliament to ask the House to take the politics out...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The man in charge of Fiji's oldest newspaper has high hopes for press freedom in the country following the...

Corporate diversity and inclusion have become more about profits than about recognising the rights of women and minorities, argues ousted Te Whatu Ora chair...

RNZ News Jacinda Ardern will largely be remembered in Aotearoa New Zealand as the prime minister whose pandemic-era policies saved thousands of Kiwi lives, according...

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva Fiji's coalition government has achieved much in its first 100 days but Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says he is not...

RNZ News Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been appointed as Special Envoy for the Christchurch Call. Ardern established the initiative to eliminate violent extremist content...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Port Vila Communities in Vanuatu continue to rely on government for basic necessities and still lack access to...

Asia Pacific Report Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama today condemned a visiting Papua New Guinean member of Parliament for "mocking" the autonomous region's independence aspirations during...

By Jean Nuia in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea’s fourth prime minister, Sir Rabbie Namaliu, has died -- four days shy of his...

Asia Pacific Report The Australia West Papua Association has condemned an Indonesian crackdown on a peaceful Papua self-determination rally in Bali at the weekend after...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University As part of its aspiration to be “Tiriti-led”, the University of Otago has embarked on a consultation process...

By Sri Krishnamurthi Highly respected and convivial Koroi Hawkins has become RNZ Pacific's first Melanesian editor after arriving in New Zealand in 2014 and says...

Jubi News in Jayapura Indonesia's Papua police chief Inspector-General Mathius D Fakhiri has called for action to ensure that "security disturbances" in the Puncak Jaya...

COMMENT: By Philip Cass Words matter when telling the story of West Papua’s continuing struggle for independence. Recently, New Zealand media carried reports of the kidnapping...