Yearly Archives: 2024

Pacific Islanders protesting for an immediate ceasefire to Israel's War on Gaza

Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has announced in Istanbul a plan to sail again to challenge Israel’s unlawful and deadly siege of...
Navjot Kaur has been crowned Miss World New Zealand

By Blessen Tom, RNZ IndoNZ journalist A 27-year-old former police officer is off to represent New Zealand at the Miss World beauty contest in India...
Morning Star flags of West Papuan independence on display at MACFEST2023

RNZ Pacific With Indonesia preparing for elections next week, Human Rights Watch has sought answers from the three groups vying for the presidency on how...
Haus Palamen

RNZ Pacific A total of 12 MPs in the Papua New Guinea government of Jame Marape have now switched sides, joining the opposition ahead of...

By Lawrence Fong of the PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea and Australia created another piece of history yesterday when James Marape became the first international...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape addressing the Australian Federal Parliament

By Bramo Tingkeo of the PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape made his historic address to the Australian Federal Parliament in Canberra...
Some of the Muhammadiyah University academics

CNN Indonesia A wave of criticism by Indonesia's academic community against the leadership of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo continues to grow as the republic faces...
Former PNG prime minister Peter O'Neill

The National in Port Moresby The Papua New Guinea government plans to introduce laws to curb free speech and freedom of the press, former prime...
PNG's Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika

PNG Post-Courier The Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea, Sir Gibbs Salika, has called on the National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop to enforce the...
Charged with abuse of office and detained overnight

RNZ Pacific Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama and former Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum are due to appear in court today on a charge related to...
About 1000 people matched onto the Treaty grounds

By Pokere Paewai , RNZ News Māori issues reporter, and Shannon Haunui-Thompson, Te Manu Korihi editor Before the sun rose and the birds started singing...
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens

RNZ Pacific The New Zealand government is again calling on the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) to release the kidnapped pilot Phillip Mehrtens. Tomorrow will...
Police accused of aggression at a Lyttelton pro-Palestine rally

RNZ News An activist organisation is accusing the Aotearoa New Zealand police of brutality after arrests were made at a pro-Palestine protest in Lyttelton today. About...
The Hikoī crosses over to Waitangi

RNZ News Thousands of people gathered before dawn in the Bay of Islands today to commemorate Aotearoa New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi amid heightened tensions...
Tonga's King Tupou VI

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News Just days after the appointment of Dr Siale ‘Akau’ola as Tonga’s new Minister of Health, King Tupou VI...
Coalition government partners New Zealand First's Winston Peters (from left), Shane Jones and ACT's David Seymour

RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand coalition government leaders have rejected allegations they are degrading tino rangatiratanga, saying the proposed Treaty Principles Bill will not "delegitimise"...
Protesters are carrying wooden signs shaped as the te tiriti o Waitangi

RNZ News The crowd booed a combative Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and drowned out Associate Treaty Minister David Seymour, while Prime Minister Christopher Luxon...
Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh

Pacific Media Watch The mother of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has died at a hospital in Gaza due to illness, reports...
"Tongans for Palestine" with watermelon "tears"

Asia Pacific Report Pacific protesters were prominent in the 17th week of Aotearoa New Zealand solidarity demonstrations for Palestine and a ceasefire in Israel's genocidal...
A common view persists that the English and Māori versions of the Treaty are fundamentally at odds

ANALYSIS: By Paul Moon, Auckland University of Technology When it comes to grappling with the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi, one of the commonest...
An "apartheid free" zone in Auckland's Western Springs

Asia Pacific Report The Palestinian Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Dr Izzat Abdulhadi, last night appealed for "unity", "strategy" and "networking" for...
"Genocide in Gaza" . . . New Zealand is swimming against the tide of world opinion

Aotearoa New Zealand must ramp up pressure on Israel to abide by last month’s International Court of Justice ruling, writes John Minto. COMMENTARY: By John...