Yearly Archives: 2023

Labour leader Chris Hipkins on the campaign trail

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...
Escalation . . . the 30sec ABC trailer

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...
Israeli airstrikes bomb Gaza

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...
Israeli strikes on Gaza in retaliation to the surprise Hamas attacks

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...
Iranian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi -- an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years --...
Operation "Al Aqsa Flood" . . . the Palestinian armed group Hamas has launched the largest attack on Israel in years

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...
Vanuatu's new Prime Minister Charlot Salwai (left) and Graon Mo Jastis Party's Ralph Regenvanu

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...
A protest by Papuan activists is blocked around the anniversary of the 1962 New York Agreement in August 2023

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...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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...

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...
NZ citizen Ahmed Zaoui

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...
Veteran Tahitian independence leader Oscar Temaru with his wife Marie at the UN

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...
The Savali ole Filemu march on Auckland's Ponsonby Road

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...
Papuan students protest over the 1962 Rome Agreement at one of last Saturday's many demonstrations

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...
The landing page for the new PMN 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...
Cary Yan (left) and his associate Gina Zhou

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...
Koiari landowners in Central Province shut down the water and hydroelectricity supply

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...
If re-elected, Labour would invite the Palestinian Ambassador

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 Prime Minister Sato Kilman

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...
Ice in Antarctica's Weddell Sea

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...
Latifah Anum Siregar, director of the Alliance for Democracy for Papua (right), speaks

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...
French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu

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...