Yearly Archives: 2023

A PNG Post-Courier newsboy on the streets in Port Moresby

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...
Former PNG prime minister Peter O'Neill

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...
Young Guam students do school work

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...
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens was photographed with his rebel captors in Indonesia's Papua region

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...
Tribal fight at Warumanda in Enga province

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...
FLNKS permanent representative at the UN Magalie Tingal-Lémé

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 Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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...
Indonesia's coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) Fatia Maulidiyanti

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...
The RNZ situation is the more serious of the two episodes

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...
New Zealand's public broadcaster RNZ is launching a review into wire news edits

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...
About 50 people held a protest at Brisbane's immigration detention centre

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...
Manukau ward Councillor Alf Filipaina

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 former prime minister Peter O'Neill speaks to media

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 chairman Dr Jim Mather

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...
PNG former prime minister Peter O'Neill outside Boroko Police Station

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...
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens was photographed with his rebel captors in Indonesia's Papua region

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 Paul Thompson

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...
One of the kidnapped Papua New Guinean schoolgirls talks about her ordeal

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...
PNG police . . . another reported kidnapping in the Mt Bosavi area

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...
RNZ and "Russian propaganda" claims

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...
International Primary School Suva students cleaning up at the My Suva Picnic Park along the Nasese foreshore in the Fiji capital this week

By John Mitchell in Suva Fiji got to celebrate World Oceans Day this week -- a day when our conscience gets the occasional prick on...
One of the 15 online articles that have been the subject of RNZ's 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...