Monthly Archives: April 2024

NZ's Immigration Minister Erica Stanford

RNZ News The New Zealand government is bringing in immediate changes to the Accredited Employer Worker Visa, which it says will help protect migrants from...
Porgera Valley

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has authorised a joint military and police operation in a decisive move to curb the escalating...
The Ngāmotu (Al Quds Day) rally in New Plymouth

Asia Pacific Report Nour Odeh, a Palestinian political analyst, says that the US is more likely to move in the “right direction” when it comes...
Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) voted

RNZ News The first votes of the 2024 Solomon Islands joint elections have been cast in Honiara on Friday. The Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) said...
Part of the cover in a recent edition of Pacific Journalism Review

Pacific Media Watch Pacific Journalism Review, the Pacific and New Zealand's only specialist media research journal, is celebrating 30 years of publishing this year --...
Indonesian security forces preparing to crush a peaceful Papuan demonstration

PNG Post-Courier The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) has declared its solidarity with civil society groups and student protesters demonstrating against the torture of a...
Some of the Wellington school children among thousands who took to the streets of New Zealand in a climate crisis protest

Asia Pacific Report From Whangārei in the north to Invercargill in the south, thousands took to the streets of Aotearoa New Zealand in today's climate...
Accused Goroka MP Aiye Tambua

By Boura Goru Kila in Port Moresby A Papua New Guinea court application to stop the news media from reporting on an alleged sexual offence...
Pro-independence CCAT protesters in Nouméa

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Demonstrations have been held in New Caledonia -- with more protests expected -- from both pro-...
Kia Ora Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealand doctors -- two Palestinian and one Iraq-born -- are planning to join the charity Kia Ora Gaza in its...
A screenshot on video on social media involving a Fijian high school student threatening a bus checker

By Temalesi Vono in Suva Fijian bus drivers and bus checkers wake up early in the morning to serve the public so it is disappointing...
Pacific Islander protesters at one of the pro-Palestine demonstrations

Pacific Media Watch Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, describing...
Indonesian police disperse Papuan demonstrators at the gate of the Jayapura University of Science and Technology

Asia Pacific Report An Australian West Papuan solidarity group has condemned a brutal crackdown by Indonesian police against student protesters demonstrating against torture by the...
A pro-independence protest march en route to central Nouméa

ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific The French Senate has endorsed a Constitutional review project bearing significant modifications to the local...
Israel's Knesset passes law to enable the government to ban foreign news outlets

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...
New Zealand hostage pilot Phillip Mehrtens (centre front in blue)

Asia Pacific Report Indonesia's military regional command in Papua has denied claims made by a pro-independence West Papuan group that abducted New Zealand pilot Phillip...
A Pacific research treasure trove

Asia Pacific Report A community-based Asia-Pacific network of academics, journalists and activists has now gone online with an umbrella website for its publications, current affairs...
The container ship Dali

Asia Pacific Report The Singapore cargo ship Dali chartered by Maersk, which collapsed the Baltimore bridge in the United States last month, was carrying 764...
West Papua . . . Indonesia is claiming to oppose genocide in Gaza

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated...
Recent Indonesian military images showing torture of indigenous Papuans

OPEN LETTER: To Australia's Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong Dear Foreign Minister, I am writing to you on behalf of the Australia West Papua Association in...
New Caledonia's President Louis Mapou

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The signing of a "nickel pact" to salvage New Caledonia's embattled industry has not been signed...