Yearly Archives: 2023

Asia Pacific Report An Australian author-poet and advocate for West Papuan independence has condemned a reported threat against the life of a New Zealand hostage...

ANALYSIS: By Dennis B. Desmond, University of the Sunshine Coast This week the Five Eyes alliance -- an intelligence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom,...

By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist In a significant step toward preserving and commemorating Fiji's rich history, efforts are underway to establish the country's first...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Guam is in a recovery phase after being pummelled by typhoon Mawar. In a notice early today, Guam Waterworks Authority...

By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Governor-General, Sir Bob Dadae, has formally dismissed former cabinet minister Brian Kramer as a Member of...

By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Kelvin Anthony, lead digital and social media journalist Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs has endorsed the reinstatement...

RNZ Pacific The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...

EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country? Papua New Guinea's Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process. Amid...

Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of "non self-governing territories", citing...

ABC Pacific Beat Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the parliamentary election, but the country's first president may contest the count after his party...

By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Kelvin Anthony, lead digital and social media journalist Chiefs are to serve people and not to be served,...

The National, Port Moresby Papua New Guinea yesterday intialled a defence cooperation agreement with the United States amid day-long protests against the signing by university...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia. Controlled by France...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says the...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this...

By Sanjeshni Kumar in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Pacific Islands nations consider the...

ANALYSIS: By Barbara Dreaver in Port Moresby When I was growing up in Kiribati, then known as the Gilbert Islands, New Zealand divers came to...

By Stella Martin and Rose Amos in Port Moresby Thousands of students at the University of Papua New Guinea staged a protest at the Waigani...

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist University students in Papua New Guinea are protesting against the signing of...

ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University; Faith Valencia-Forrester, Griffith University; Madi Day, Macquarie University, and Susan Forde, Griffith University Stan Grant, a well-known Aboriginal journalist...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea expects to see a steady increase in United States military presence following the signing of the US-PNG Defense Cooperation Agreement...