Monthly Archives: July 2024

RNZ Pacific and ABC Violent attacks on three remote villages in Papua New Guinea's north have reportedly killed 26 people, including 16 children, while several...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A former Papua New Guinea army leader, Major-General Jerry Singirok, is furious after being arrested and charged under...

By Kaneta Naimatau in Suva In a democracy, citizens must critically evaluate issues based on facts. However in a very polarised society, people focus more...

RNZ Pacific The French Ambassador to the Pacific says President Emmanuel Macron is yet to sign-off on a letter from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)...

ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel-Fattah Since 7 October 2023, across every profession and social realm in Australia -- teachers, students, doctors, nurses, academics, public servants, lawyers,...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Australia and New Zealand’s populations must now wake up to the fact that our countries have been drawn into what ForeignPolicy.com...

By Brooke Tindall, Queensland University of Technology With more than 50 Fijian villages earmarked for potential relocation in the next five to 10 years due...

RNZ Pacific About 4500 Bougainvillean residents now back a lawsuit against mining giant Rio Tinto. This is an additional 1500 people from the autonomous Papua New...

By Stefan Armbruster, Harlyne Joku and Tria Dianti No progress has been made in sending a UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces despite...

RNZ Pacific New Zealand should join others in calling New Caledonia's third independence referendum invalid, one of the founders of the Kanaky Aotearoa Solidarity Network...

COMMENTARY: By Sandy Yule When Melbourne-born Helen Hill, an outstanding social activist, scholar and academic, died on 7 May 2024 at the age of 79,...

Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show in The Hague, where the International...

By Bramo Tingkeo in Port Moresby Port Moresby residents who have missed out on the Papua New Guinea's national census counting have been urged to...

In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital/social lead Foreign Minister Winston Peters has "hung . . . out to dry" Fiji's suspended New Zealand Director of...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Chuave District Development Authority is condemning an attack on a priest and his team in Chimbu province. Father Ryszard Wajda (SVD),...

By Sainimili Magimagi in Suva Family members keep silent on the issue of violence in Fiji and individuals continue to be the victims, according to...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesia's veteran politician, 93-year-old Gaston Flosse, announced last week he is stepping down from his...

Asia Pacific Report A brutal killing of three Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya reveals that occupied West Papua is a ticking time bomb under Indonesian...

By Pita Ligaiula in Tokyo The Pacific Islands Forum hopes to send a high-level delegation to Kanaky New Caledonia to investigate the current political crisis...

By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the Pacific,...