Yearly Archives: 2024
1000 protest in Auckland over Israel’s war on Gaza, honour Nakba victims
Asia Pacific Report
About 1000 people in Aotearoa New Zealand gathered for a two-hour rally in central Auckland today and marched down Queen Street and...
Justice wins, says Fiji’s acting DPP over jailing of former PM, police chief
By Repeka Nasiko in Suva
"Justice has won," says Fiji's acting Director of Public Prosecutions John Rabuku following the sentencing of former prime minister Voreqe...
NZ delivers humanitarian supplies to disaster-hit PNG provinces
PNG Post-Courier
New Zealand High Commissioner Peter Zwart and PNG Defence Minister Dr Billy Joseph welcomed a C-130 Hercules to Port Moresby this week to...
TVNZ breached union pact when deciding on programme cuts, ERA rules
RNZ News
Television New Zealand has breached its collective agreement with the E tū union when deciding on discontinuing programmes, the Employment Relations Authority has...
NZ’s first Pinoy Green MP Francisco Hernandez talks climate policy and activism
Asia Pacific Report
Barangay New Zealand's Rene Molina has interviewed the country's first Filipino Green MP Francisco Hernandez who was sworn into Parliament yesterday as...
Pacific journalists are world’s ‘eyes and ears’ on climate crisis, says EU envoy
By Kaneta Naimatu in Suva
Journalists in the Pacific region play an important role as the “eyes and ears on the ground” when it comes...
New Caledonia marks Armistice Day with new NZ war memorial
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Authorities in the small town of Boulouparis have commemorated Armistice Day on May 8 with a...
TVNZ Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver awarded ONZM for investigative journalism
Pacific Media Watch
Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to...
UN to vote over reviving Palestine’s bid for membership as Biden ‘pauses’ arms for...
Pacific Media Watch
The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote later today on a resolution that would grant new “rights and privileges” to...
Samoa’s TV3 closes channel and goes fully online streaming
RNZ Pacific
In a first of its kind in Samoa, Apia Broadcasting channel TV3 is moving its station completely to online streaming because it can...
Puna calls for Pacific ‘journalistic vigilance’ in face of climate crisis
By Kamna Kumar in Suva
Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna stressed the importance of media freedom and its link to the climate and environmental...
Former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama jailed over block of USP probe
RNZ Pacific
Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been sentenced to one year in prison, Fiji media are reporting.
Bainimarama, alongside suspended Fiji Police Commissioner...
‘Completely stupid’ – ex-Tuvalu PM plea to NZ to rethink fossil fuel plan
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A former Tuvalu prime minister says while the New Zealand government's oil and gas plans show it is concerned...
US lawyer threatens masked student Gaza protesters with ‘KKK’ felony charges
Asia Pacific Report
Ohio’s top lawyer has warned the state’s public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used...
‘Reckless’ kina devaluation spells disaster for PNG, says Nomane
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's deputy opposition leader James Nomane has accused the government of "reckless economic management" that has forced devaluation to manage loan...
Rafah ‘last place of safety’ in Gaza, UN aid boss warns
RNZ News
As Israel presses ahead with strikes in Rafah and seizing the Rafah crossing from Egypt, aid agencies are sounding the alarm of a...
NZ local council calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza as strikes hit
By Robin Martin, RNZ News reporter
A New Zealand local authority, Whanganui District Council, has passed a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza,...
‘Repair colonial violence’ and support Gaza ceasefire, say Otago academics
Asia Pacific Report
Following an open letter by Auckland University academics speaking out in support of their students' right to protest against the genocidal Israeli...
End this ‘cruel, barbaric use of force’ on Gaza – WILPF plea to NZ
Asia Pacific Report
The Aotearoa chapter of the Women's International league for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has appealed to the New Zealand government to call...
Bougainville ‘other avenues’ report ‘sensationalised’, claims Makiba
PNG Post-Courier
Bougainville Affairs Minister Manasseh Makiba has described the Post-Courier’s front page story yesterday regarding a meeting between Bougainville and national government leaders as...
Israeli ban on Al Jazeera slammed as a ‘criminal and dangerous’ decision
Asia Pacific Report
Haggai Matar, executive director of the independent +972 Magazine, has described the Tel Aviv government’s decision to shut down Al Jazeera in...
Tackling Pacific media’s crucial role in climate crisis and press freedom
Wansolwara
The news media’s crucial role in climate change and environment journalism was the focus of The University of the South Pacific’s Journalism Programme 2024...