Yearly Archives: 2024
Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza
By Binoy Kampmark
The Age has revealed the dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last December 20 was the nasty fruit of a campaign waged against...
More than 10,000 turn out for NZ’s national Hui-ā-Iwi at Tūrangawaewae
RNZ Pacific
Waikato Tainui estimate at least 10,000 people have been welcomed onto Tūrangawaewae marae to participate in an Aotearoa New Zealand national hui called...
Golriz Ghahraman’s exit from politics shows the toll of online bullying on female MPs
ANALYSIS: By Cassandra Mudgway, University of Canterbury
The high-stress nature of working in politics is increasingly taking a toll on staff and politicians. But an...
Marape reshuffles PNG cabinet – Treasurer demoted, Tkatchenko back
By Jeffrey Elapa and Miriam Zarriga
Papua New Guinea's predicted Cabinet reshuffle has taken place with Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey becoming the bombshell victim following last...
Israel blows up last university in Gaza as air strikes continue – call for...
By Laura Pollock
Gaza's last standing university has been destroyed by the Israeli army as military continued to strike targets in areas of the besieged...
Israel wants a Palestinian intifada in the West Bank. It may explode.
By Gideon Levy of Haaretz
Three and a half hours. Three and a half hours from Jenin to Tul Karm. In three and a half...
Marshall Islands reaffirms ties with Taiwan in wake of Nauru shift
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
Marshall Islands officials quickly moved this week to reaffirm this nation's ties...
Marape tells PNG youth ‘I’m your father’ in bid to mobilise them
RNZ Pacific
In the wake of last week's riots and looting across Papua New Guinea's cities, the government has announced plans to get the country's...
When Yemen does it it’s ‘terrorism’, when the US does it it’s ‘the rules-based...
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The Biden administration has officially re-designated Ansarallah -- the dominant force in Yemen also known as the Houthis -- as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist...
New Zealand can learn from South Africa, The Gambia and others when it comes...
ANALYSIS: By Karen Scott, University of Canterbury
In 2023, the world witnessed a sustained attack on the very foundations of the international legal order.
Russia, a...
Port Moresby police chief suspended in latest fallout from PNG riots
RNZ Pacific
The latest victim of last week's rioting and looting in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby is the city's top police commander.
National Capital...
RSF condemns Israel over ‘silencing of media’ – 31 Palestinian journalists in jail, 80...
Pacific Media Watch
Israel has arrested a total of 38 Palestinian journalists since the start of its war with Hamas on October 7 and is...
Post-Courier: Draconian and dangerous move
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier
Last year, the Papua New Guinea government moved in a subtle way into the Fourth Estate.
It tried to -- and...
Masiu vows 10-day shutdown of PNG’s social media after capital riots
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Communications Minister Timothy Masiu has announced stringent measures to control social media in the country for the next 10 days...
Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’
RNZ News
Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman -- a leading voice in Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament for human rights, an independent foreign policy, and...
China has ‘whittled down’ key Taiwan support with Nauru move, says scholar
RNZ Pacific
A security studies professor says China has been applying pressure to countries to switch diplomatic ties over from Taiwan, but Beijing says its...
PNG political fallout from deadly riots stirs call for vote over Marape
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The political fallout from the deadly riots in Papua New Guinea continues, including calls for a vote of...
The Fiji Times: Drug bust a chilling wake-up call for Fiji
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times
The revelation that police have carried out what is believed to be one of Fiji’s biggest...
PNG’s Gerehu became a ‘ghost town in the blink of an eye’ after riot
PNG Post-Courier
Gerehu, the sprawling suburban township to the north of Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby, is now a "ghost town" for shoppers.
All major...
Marape accuses ‘rogue police’ of being part of Port Moresby’s riots
By Gorethy Kenneth and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Rogue police officers have been alleged to be part of last Wednesday’s uprising of opportunists leading...
Tributes flow over death of French ‘peacemaker’ minister in New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French Pacific desk correspondent
One of the key players in the restoration of peace in New Caledonia in the 1980s,...
Fiji human rights activists pay tribute to slain Gaza journalists, but shunned by local...
Pacific Media Watch
Fiji human rights activists have paid tribute in a Suva vigil this week to the more than 100 journalists -- most of...