Yearly Archives: 2024
Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks 200 days
Asia Pacific Report
Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and...
OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua
Asia Pacific Report
The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of...
NZ’s Media Minister Melissa Lee demoted after Newshub crisis
RNZ News
Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand's coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability...
Australia-born judge facing potential deportation from Kiribati
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he...
Murray Horton: Get tough on Israel – we’ve done it before over spies
COMMENTARY: By Murray Horton
New Zealand needs to get tough with Israel. It's not as if we haven't done so before.
When NZ authorities busted a...
Fiji journalism – starting with the people and ending with the people
NEWSMAKERS: By Vijay Narayan, news director of FijiVillage
Blessed to be part of the University of Fiji (UniFiji) faculty to continue to teach and...
PNG’s PM Marape to ‘give hand to his bro’ Albanese on Kokoda Trail
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived at Kokoda Station, Northern province, at the start of his state visit...
Malcolm Evans: A new low in NZ media’s record of bias over Palestine
REVIEW: By Malcolm Evans
Last week’s leaked New York Times staff directive, as to what words can and cannot be used to describe the carnage...
No clear winner as lobbying to form next Solomon Islands government intensifies
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara
With only four more seats in the 50-member Parliament yet to be officially declared, there is no...
NZ’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters ‘defers’ recognition of Palestine
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters is putting off recognition of Palestine as a state, despite opposition...
Activists defy Israel with Gaza-bound ‘freedom’ flotilla and humanitarian aid
By Salwa Amor in Istanbul
Palestine solidarity activists are preparing a flotilla to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, vowing to break Israel's blockade...
More than half of Solomon Islands election results in as counting continues
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara
More than 60 percent of the national results of the Solomon Islands election are now in.
So far,...
Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute's silence to mark the "blood debt" owed to...
Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions
Pacific Media Watch
Australians are being urged to stay united following the horrific events in Sydney last week, reports the ABC's Saturday Extra programme.
Five women...
Have New Zealanders really been ‘misled’ about AUKUS, or is involvement now a foregone...
ANALYSIS: By Marco de Jong, Auckland University of Technology and Robert G. Patman, University of Otago
When former prime minister Helen Clark spoke out against...
Solomon Islands political chess begins with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in East Choiseul
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara
Solomon Islands' incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has been re-elected in the East Choiseul constituency.
It is the...
‘Stop detracting from Israel’s barbaric crimes’ in Gaza plea from Freedom Flotilla
Asia Pacific Report
Hours ago, the news media reported that Israel has attacked Iran. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition publicly declared that it is reminding the...
New Caledonia’s nickel French lifeline ‘pact’ in limbo
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
The French-proposed "pact" to salvage New Caledonia's beleaguered nickel industry is still in limbo as the...
Rousing farewell for Kiwi doctors flying out to Gaza aid flotilla
Kia Ora Gaza
A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from...
Eugene Doyle: Helen Clark on why AUKUS isn’t in New Zealand’s national interest
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Helen Clark, how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister -- the safest pair of hands this country has...
‘The right person’: What did Solomon Islanders vote for?
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara
After a relatively well organised and peaceful day of voting in Solomon Islands yesterday, the electoral commission...
A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest songs
REVIEW: By 'Alopi Latukefu
I came to this evening of short films not sure what to expect.
I have a history with West Papua (here referring...