Yearly Archives: 2024
A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system
Democracy Now!
Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the...
Pacific leaders remember Jimmy Carter’s ‘pivotal role’ for CNMI
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
The Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas has paid tribute to former...
Palestine protest group condemns NZ’s ‘normalisation of apartheid’ – Israeli tennis player’s match disrupted
Asia Pacific Report
A Palestine solidarity group has protested over the participation of Israeli tennis player Lina Glushko in New Zealand's ASB Tennis Classic in...
Hui, protests, kotahitanga, and a new Kuini – a historic year for Māoridom
By Ella Stewart, (Ngāpuhi, Te Māhurehure, Ngāti Manu), RNZ longform journalist, Te Ao Māori
On a sticky day in January, dozens of nannies and aunties...
Valls hopes to tackle New Caledonia in Rocard-style ‘spirit of dialogue’
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Overseas Minister Manuel Valls, who was appointed yesterday as part of the new French government...
Killing of five Gaza journalists by Israel strike highlights weak NZ media response
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
My message today is really simple but brutal.
Israel kills the journalists deliberately. This is unprecedented. The Western...
Fiji’s PM dismisses Tabuya as Minister for Women and Children
RNZ Pacific
Fiji MP Lynda Tabuya has been dismissed as the country's Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection.
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said in a...
‘Bloc’ resignation over riots recovery plan topples New Caledonia’s government
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent, French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's territorial government has been toppled on Christmas Eve, due to a mass resignation within...
Five journalists killed by Israeli air strike near hospital – media watchdogs condemn killings
Pacific Media Watch
Five Palestinian journalists have been killed in a new Israeli strike near a hospital in central Gaza after four reporters were killed...
Cardinal David slams Israel, says Jesus would have been born in Gaza
By Victor Barreiro Jr in Manila
Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of Kalookan, has condemned the state of Israel on Christmas Eve for its relentless...
Publisher tells of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s identity
By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva
Veteran journalist and editor Stanley Simpson has spoken about the enduring power of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s...
Gaza Christians pray for end of Israeli war’s ‘death and destruction’
Asia Pacific Report
Silent Night is a well-known Christmas carol that tells of a peaceful and silent night in Bethlehem, referring to the first Christmas...
Moana Maniapoto on the sound of the 80s to world-class journalism
By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori journalism intern at RNZ News
From being the headline to creating them, Moana Maniapoto has walked a rather...
Rabuka reveals details of 1987 coup navy ‘secret weapons mission’
By Litia Cava, FBC News multimedia journalist
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has revealed how arms and ammunition used to conduct the 1987 military coup...
NZ’s Z Energy renames stations with ‘correct’ kupu
By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori Journalism Intern at RNZ News
The New Zealand fuel company Z Energy is swapping out street names for...
Vanuatu quake: Warnings as bad weather threat looms for Port Vila
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) says impending bad weather for Port Vila is now the most significant...
The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet: the sometimes celebrated, sometimes controversial...
ANALYSIS: By Richard Scully, University of New England; Robert Phiddian, Flinders University, and Stephanie Brookes, Monash University
Michael Leunig -- who died in the early...
Quake-shocked New Caledonian children repatriated from Vanuatu
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Twenty New Caledonian children who suffered the shock of Port Vila's 7.3 magnitude earthquake have been...
Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’
Asia Pacific Report
“It looks like Hiroshima. It looks like Germany at the end of World War Two,” says an Israeli-American historian and professor of...
NZ govt plans to make ‘heavy handed’ change to free speech rules for universities
By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education correspondent
The New Zealand government coalition is tweaking university regulations to curb what it says is an increasingly...
MEAA welcomes News MAP funding ‘leg up’ for Australian journalism
Pacific Media Watch
The union for Australian journalists has welcomed the delivery by the federal government of more than $150 million to support the sustainability...
Fiji pro-Palestine nativity scene exposes Gaza as ‘hell on earth’ at Christmas
Asia Pacific Report
Fiji activists have recreated the nativity scene at a solidarity for Palestine gathering in Fiji's capital Suva just days before Christmas.
The Fiji...