Monthly Archives: November 2024
Hundreds of Israel lobbyists ‘writing America’s news’, reveals new probe
Pacific Media Watch
Hundreds of former employees of Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC, StandWithUs and CAMERA are working in top newsrooms across the United...
West Papuan leader makes ‘raise our banned flag’ plea over new threat
Asia Pacific Report
An exiled West Papuan leader has called on supporters globally to show their support by raising the Morning Star flag -- banned...
Senior NZ lawyers call for Treaty Principles Bill to be abandoned
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ political reporter
Members of the King's Counsel, some of New Zealand's most senior legal minds, say the controversial Treaty Principles Bill...
COP29: Does NZ have the credibility to lead carbon trading talks?
By Eloise Gibson, RNZ climate change correspondent
New Zealand's Climate Change Minister Simon Watts is going to the global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan next...
Hīkoi day three: Thousands of protesters walk across Auckland Harbour Bridge
RNZ News
Thousands of supporters of Aotearoa New Zealand's hīkoi mō te Tiriti -- a march traversing the length of Aotearoa in protest against the...
The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series
ABC Radio Australia and RNZ
You probably know about the last moments of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985.
But what do you know about...
NZ abuse in care apology called PR stunt,’tokenistic’ by some survivors
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter
Survivors of abuse in care arrived at Parliament today to hear the formal apology from the state which...
Hīkoi mō te Tiriti sets off from Whangārei on day two
RNZ News
Emotions are running high as the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti has been welcomed to Laurie Hill Park in Whangārei by mana whenua.
Thousands have...
Trump win, 1.5C warming breach weigh on UN climate ‘finance COP’
By Sera Sefeti of BenarNews
Pacific delegates fear the implications of a Trump presidency and breach of the 1.5 degree Celsius warming target will overshadow...
Hīkoi mō te Tiriti day one: ‘Lets make this hīkoi build a nation’
RNZ News
From the misty peaks of Cape Reinga to the rain-soaked streets of Kawakawa, Aotearoa New Zealand's national hīkoi mō Te Tiriti rolled through...
NZ Speaker reverses journalist bar from abuse apology at Parliament
By Giles Dexter, RNZ political reporter
An investigative journalist who was barred from attending New Zealand's national apology to survivors of abuse in care has...
Meeting with Seymour ‘pointless’, say protest hīkoi organisers
RNZ News
Thousands of people have joined the national hīkoi opposing the Treaty Principles Bill as it progresses south, with supporters lining State Highway 10...
Rising Tide climate crisis ‘Protestival’ to go ahead despite court ruling
The NSW Supreme Court has issued orders prohibiting a major climate protest that would blockade ships entering the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle...
NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill protest hīkoi begins in Far North
RNZ News
A national hīkoi across Aotearoa New Zealand began today in the small Far North town of Te Kāo.
Supporters gathered at Pōtahi Marae, before...
Qatar ‘stalls’ Gaza mediation efforts – says it will not be ‘blackmailed’
Asia Pacific Report
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has rejected media reports that it has pulled out of mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas but added that...
COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed
COMMENTARY: By Reverend James Bhagwan
"We will not sign our death certificate. We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on...
‘Catastrophic’ ethnic cleansing amid north Gaza news void, says global media watchdog
Pacific Media Watch
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Israel has stepped up systematic attacks on journalists and media infrastructure since the...
US elections featuring ‘racism, sexism’ pose challenges for Global South
COMMENTARY: By Patrick Gathara
Anger and fear have greeted the return to power of former US strongman Donald Trump, a corrupt far-white extremist coup plotter...
Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reid
The Enemy Within, by Maire Leadbeater is many things. It is:
• A family history
• A social history
• A history of the...
Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true feminism’
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: As we continue to look...
Eugene Doyle: Axis of Genocide vs Axis of Resistance. Whose side are you on?
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Despite being appalled at my government, I winced as a New Zealander to hear my country described as part of the...
Convicted former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama released from prison
RNZ Pacific
Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been released from prison, only six months into his 12 months sentence, the Fiji Corrections Service...