Yearly Archives: 2023
Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or favour
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
Mister Speaker, our collective question without notice is to you mister Speaker. We want the Prime Minister and his deputy to take...
O’Neill says defence pact giving US forces ‘immunity’ threatens PNG sovereignty
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
Former Papua New Guinean prime minister Peter O’Neill says the controversial US-PNG Defence Cooperation Agreement threatens the country's sovereignty.
He...
Influenza outbreak after Mawar challenges Guam’s evacuation centres
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist
An influenza B outbreak has occurred at shelters housing residents who were hardest hit by Typhoon Mawar.
It has been...
I was involved in stalled talks to free kidnapped NZ pilot in West Papua....
ANALYSIS: By Damien Kingsbury, Deakin University
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has now been held hostage in West Papua for four months. Stalled attempts to...
‘We’re outgunned,’ says local PNG police chief – ‘give us firepower’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Miriam Zarriga at Wapenamanda, Papua New Guinea
Standing in the middle of the countryside, the sound of heavy gunfire is loud and...
UN told France has ‘robbed’ Kanaks of New Caledonian independence
By David Robie
New Caledonia's Kanak national liberation movement has told the UN Decolonisation Committee that France has "robbed" the indigenous people of their independence...
Fiji PM Rabuka downplays ‘loyalist’ nepotism allegations
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has played down criticism he is leading an administration...
NGOs work in ‘public interest – not foreign lackeys’, says activist in Jakarta libel...
Asia Pacific Report
A defendant in an Indonesian case of alleged defamation, Fatia Maulidiyanti, has hit back at a statement by Coordinating Minister for Maritime...
Gavin Ellis: Proof our newsrooms need a ‘second pair of eyes’
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
Own goals by two of our top news organisations last week raised a fundamental question: What has happened to their checking...
RNZ appoints panel to investigate inappropriate editing of online stories
RNZ News
RNZ has appointed a group of experts to carry out an investigation over how pro-Russian edits were inserted into international stories online.
An RNZ...
‘Mental torture’: Protesters seek freedom for detained Iran refugee
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
As Australian protesters gathered outside the Brisbane detention centre calling for the...
Pacific councillors offer passionate defence of Auckland city’s assets in budget dilemma
Local Democracy reporter Kim Meredith reflects on her observations from Auckland Council's two-day annual budget meeting last week. Following drawn out debate and Mayor...
PNG chief secretary’s complaint prompted arrest of former PM O’Neill
By Gorethy Kenneth and Majorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
The arrest of Papua New Guinea former prime minister Peter O’Neill yesterday was prompted by a...
RNZ board to begin setting up independent review of pro-Russia edits to stories
RNZ News
The RNZ board is meeting tonight to begin setting up an independent review on how pro-Russian sentiment was inserted into a number of...
O’Neill claims perjury charges over PNG’s UBS loan inquiry ‘political’
PNG Post-Courier
Former Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O’Neill has been charged with three counts of giving false evidence in a national US$1.2 billion...
Papuan churches call on Jokowi to halt military ops for NZ pilot’s safety
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
The West Papuan Council of Churches says New Zealand hostage pilot Phillip Mehrtens' life is in danger if negotiations...
RNZ chief executive apologises after pro-Russian sentiment added to stories
RNZ News
RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson says the New Zealand public has been let down after pro-Russian sentiment was added to a number of...
PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them
By Majeleen Yanei in Port Moresby
Seventeen Papua New Guinean schoolgirls who were kidnapped, raped and held hostage by armed men in Bosavi, Hela, last...
Armed gunmen kidnap 17 girls from remote PNG village – freed for ransom
RNZ Pacific
Reports from Papua New Guinea say that 17 girls from a remote village have been held captive by a large group of armed...
‘We are in the war’: Ukrainian man says RNZ altered news stories must be...
RNZ News
A Ukrainian man who complained about an RNZ story last year having Russian propaganda says his concerns are only now being noticed.
It comes...
John Mitchell: Planet Ocean – tides are changing, but halt plastic horror
By John Mitchell in Suva
Fiji got to celebrate World Oceans Day this week -- a day when our conscience gets the occasional prick on...
RNZ investigating series of ‘Kremlin-friendly’ story edits in audit
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
RNZ is investigating how online stories about the war in Ukraine, supplied by an international news agency, were...