Yearly Archives: 2023

Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the New Zealand government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems...

By Pearson Kolo in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea Authorities at Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands provincial capital Mt Hagen City will soon launch tough...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor; Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital journalist; and Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist A group of former leaders of...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The last fortnight has seen a series of brutal, deliberately provocative Israeli attacks on Palestinian worshippers at Al Aqsa Mosque in...

Introducing ABC's The Pacific - first episode.  Video: ABC News SPECIAL REPORT: By ABC Backstory editor Natasha Johnson When Tahlea Aualiitia talks about hosting the ABC's...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter The leader of New Caledonia's Pacific Awakening party has presented his vision on the territory's development to the French...

RNZ Pacific The Pacific Islands Forum chairman has been assured by the United States that the AUKUS agreement will honour the Treaty of Rarotonga after...

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji’s Department of Information spent $889,234.84 in taxpayer funds to the Fiji-owned company Vatis Communications until its contract was terminated...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter Campaigning for French Polynesia's territorial elections has entered its final week. Dressed in their parties' respective colours, supporters of several...

RNZ Pacific The authorities in Indonesia's Papua region say the search for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by West Papua Liberation Movement freedom fighters...

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...