Monthly Archives: November 2024

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide

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...
A "raising the Morning Star" flag protest outside the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra in 2021

Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader has called on supporters globally to show their support by raising the Morning Star flag -- banned...
Te Maori Pati leader Rawiri Waititi talks to an RNZ reporter at Hīkoi mō te Tiriti

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...
NZ Climate Change Minister Simon Watts

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...
Thousands of people have streamed across the 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...
Rainbow Warrior crew help Rongelap islanders

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...
Survivor Tu Chapman

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...
Te Hīkoi mō te Tiriti Day 2

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...
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, is hosting about 40,000 COP delegates

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...
Hikoi Day One - Cape Reinga

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...
New Zealand investigative journalist Aaron Smale

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...
The national hīkoi against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill begins

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...
The Newcastle coal port 24-hour blockade protest 2023

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...
A tangata whenua kōrero at Saturday's Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland Tamaki Makaurau

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...
A New Zealand protester at a pro-Palestinian rally in Auckland on Saturday calling for immediate sanctions and the expulsion of the Israel ambassador

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...
What lies ahead at Baku?

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...
Palestine supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand protesting against the genocide and calling for an immediate ceasefire

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...
President-elect Donald Trump

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...
Activist author Maire Leadbeater

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...
Author and columnist Fatima Bhutto

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...
Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi in Tehran

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...
Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama

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...