Monthly Archives: October 2023

By Novianti Setuningsih in Jakarta Many labour organisations have protested in front of the US Embassy in Central Jakarta, calling for an end to the...

By Debrin Foxcroft, Finlay Macdonald, Matt Garrow and Veronika Meduna, The Conversation From winning a single-party majority in 2020, Labour’s vote has virtually halved in...

RNZ News Christopher Luxon and the National Party are on course to form a new government with the ACT Party in Aotearoa New Zealand, with...

Asia Pacific Report About 2000 people from Aotearoa New Zealand communities, including many families, staged a vibrant rally in Auckland's Aotea Square and marched down...

Pacific Media Watch The International Press Institute (IPI) global network has called on all parties involved in the ongoing hostilities in Israel and Gaza to...

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in...

RNZ News Social media users in Aotearoa New Zealand are being warned not to make posts on voting or any aspect of political campaigns come...

Pacific Media Watch Israeli occupation forces are intentionally targeting Palestinian journalists in the besieged Gaza Strip, media outlets warned after three reporters were killed Tuesday...

Pacific Media Watch Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately. A media...

RNZ Pacific A Suva court has acquitted the former Fijian prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama and the suspended police chief Sitiveni Qiliho. Bainimarama was facing charges of...

Asia Pacific Report A progressive foreign policy group is calling for the New Zealand government to condemn the siege of Gaza, and demand an immediate...

By Lawrence Fong in Port Moresby Cheaper loans will be a key agenda for Papua New Guinea officials when Prime Minister James Marape leads a...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The tragic events in Israel/Palestine these past few days have highlighted the absolute failure of Western governments like New Zealand to...

By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Fiji independence day celebrations -- "Fiji Day" -- this week was a jovial occasion with thousands of flag waving...

RNZ News Two polls out tonight both have Winston Peters firmly in the drivers' seat for forming a government with Aotearoa New Zealand's general election...

ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani Almost 50 years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again...

By Jacob Pok in Port Moresby Concerns over alleged political interference in the command and control of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force are among...

By Rodney Duthie of The Fiji Times Flying Fijians head coach Simon Raiwalui says facing England in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals will be different...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is correct to condemn Hamas killing Israeli civilians in its attacks on Israel this...

RNZ News Labour leader Chris Hipkins says support for National in the polls for the Aotearoa New Zealand election next Saturday is "well and truly...

Pacific Media Watch The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) says it is "deeply concerned" at reports that Western Australian police are demanding...

COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, Fred Albert, Sue Berman and Justine Sachs of the Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ) Hamas has responded to Israel’s escalating violence with...