Yearly Archives: 2023
NZ election 2023: National’s support ‘overstated’ in close race, says Hipkins
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...
Media education group, union protest over police demand for ABC ‘inside story’ climate footage
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...
Gaza blockade: Hamas’s tragic attack a response to longterm and escalating, immediate violence
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...
John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and Palestinian resistance
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The Hamas attack on Israel yesterday has brought the usual round of systemic misreporting by New Zealand news outlets as they...
RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi -- an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years --...
Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy over brutal Israeli...
Asia Pacific Report
The New Zealand government bears heavy responsibility for loss of life of Palestinians and Israelis in the latest fighting in Israel/Palestine and...
Charlot Salwai elected 4th prime minister of Vanuatu in three years
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor, and Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Vanuatu's Prime Minister Sato Kilman has been voted out through a motion-of-no-confidence...
Crackdown on activists, free expression in Papua as Indonesia eyes UN Human Rights role
Asia Pacific Report
The state of civic space in Indonesia has been rated as "obstructed" in the latest CIVICUS Monitor report.
The civic space watchdog said...
Marape seeks help from Australia, Singapore to fight PNG corruption
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's government has appealed to the Australian Federal Police and the Singapore Police to assist PNG police...
Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only
Pacific Media Watch
New Caledonia's daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes is back six months after it closed -- but with a big difference. It is...
Ahmed Zaoui detained in Algeria for democracy statements, lawyer says
RNZ News
The Algerian democracy advocate Ahmed Zaoui, a New Zealand citizen, has been arrested by Algerian security forces after commenting on human rights violations...
France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French desk correspondent
After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week's French Polynesia sitting of the...
After more than 30 years fighting Dawn Raids practices, Soane Foliaki still hopes NZ...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A Tongan RSE worker, whose case sparked an independent review of Immigration New Zealand's "out-of-hours compliance visit" practices, is...
West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
The Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have denounced the Rome Agreement of...
Pacific Media Network launches new ‘Moanaverse’ digital website
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Network (PMN) has continued its transition into the "Moanaverse" with a new digital home for its news and media
PMN said...
Chinese ‘miracle water’ grifters infiltrated UN, bribed politicians to build Pacific dream city
By Aubrey Belford, Kevin G. Hall and Martin Young
A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future...
PNG police chief warns protesters on water, power ‘domestic terrorism’
PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning has warned protesters against "domestic terrorism" -- when their actions place the safety...
John Minto: NZ’s Labour refuses to recognise Palestine – even after 104 years
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) supporters are livid Labour is refusing to recognise the state of Palestine a full 104 years...
Vanuatu PM Kilman loses majority and faces defeat in Friday vote
By Hilaire Bule in Port Vila
Power has transitioned from Vanuatu's government to the opposition in Parliament during the Fifth Extraordinary Session convened to debate...
Researchers call for urgent emissions cuts as Antarctic sea ice ‘drops off a cliff’
By Eloise Gibson, RNZ climate change correspondent
Scientists studying dramatic Antarctic sea ice loss have called for urgent reductions to greenhouse gases to keep the...
West Papua’s human rights issues under spotlight for Jubi film launch
Jubi News in Jayapura
Director Latifah Anum Siregar of the Democracy Alliance for Papua (ALDP) has emphasised the importance of raising awareness about human rights...
France to host Pacific defence ministers in New Caledonia ‘hub’ meeting
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent
Defence ministers from several Asian and Pacific states are scheduled to meet in New Caledonia for two days...