Yearly Archives: 2024

A Fiji news conference in Suva during Media Freedom Day last year

Asia Pacific Report Time is running out for media people and academics wanting to tell their innovative story or present research at the 2024 Pacific...
ABG President Ishmael Toroama (right) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinea and Bougainville appear no closer to the tabling in the National Parliament of the referendum...
Latest Indonesian torture atrocity in West Papua

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan pro-independence leader has condemned the "sadistic brutality" of Indonesian soldiers in a torture video and called for an urgent...
Pakilau Manase Lua

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Prominent Pasifika community leader Pakilau Manase Lua has resigned from New Zealand Rugby's (NZR) Pasifika Advisory Group, saying...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape says funding for impending byelections is not an issue. “We are assisting the Electoral Commission with funding,...
Australian-Lebanese broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf

Pacific Media Watch Editorial staff at Australia's public broadcaster ABC have again registered a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson and senior...
PNG's Defence Minister Dr Billy Joseph (right) being welcomed in Tokyo

By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Defence Minister Dr Billy Joseph attended the second Japan Pacific Islands Defence Dialogue (JPIDD) in Tokyo,...
The GCSB building in Wellington

Asia Pacific Report Te Kuaka, an independent foreign policy advocacy group with a strong focus on the Pacific, has called for urgent changes to the...
Protesters over the Gaza genocide in Sydney earlier this week

By A Firenze in Gadigal/Sydney Palestinians fleeing war-ravaged Gaza for safety in Australia were left stranded when the Labor government abruptly cancelled their visas. The “subclass...
Starving Gazans waiting for scarce humanitarian aid

By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter The New Zealand government is being urged to create a special humanitarian visa for Palestinians in Gaza with...
The French National Assembly in session

ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk An "organic law" to postpone New Caledonia's provincial elections has passed the final hurdle and...
Highlands women attend a funeral for a victim of a sorcery accusation-related attack

RNZ PACIFIC Q&A: By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist In Papua New Guinea, sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) remains a significant form of violence across...
The Sydney "die-in" street theatre protest

By Wendy Bacon in Sydney Twenty-four weeks of city marches and a five-week vigil outside the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electoral office in Marrickville have...
An upgraded HMAS Stirling in Western Australia

By Paul Gregoire in Sydney One year since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to San Diego to unveil the AUKUS deal the news came that...
Fiji journalists at a sexual harassment seminar

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Sexual harassment of women journalists continues to be a major problem in Fiji journalism...
Judge Panuel Mogish

By Melyne Baroi in Port Moresby A senior National Court judge in Papua New Guinea has dismissed an expatriate prisoner’s request to have his sentence...
NZ's Media and Communication Minister Melissa Lee

RNZ News New Zealand's media and communications minister is defending pulling out of pre-booked interviews about her portfolio, saying they would have been "boring" for...
Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul

Pacific Media Watch Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who was held for 12 hours at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, says Israeli forces rounded up...
More than 20 people have been reported dead

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Food rationing is underway in remote areas in Papua New Guinea's Highlands following torrential rain and flash flooding. More than...
Dr David Robie of the Asia Pacific Media Network

Pacific Media Watch Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent...
Fiji Opposition MP Viliame Naupoto

By Wata Shaw in Suva Fiji is facing an exodus of Fijians as many are leaving for overseas seeking employment and education and others are...
A protest in front of Parliament building in Jakarta

Asia Pacific Report Up to 50 anti-corruption activists and former employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have sent letters to several Indonesian political party...