Yearly Archives: 2024

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird

Interview by Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The man being touted by the opposition as the next leader of Papua New Guinea says the...
Media bias over Israel's war on Gaza

Pacific Media Watch A report by a media watchdog has revealed the United Kingdom’s media bias in covering the Hamas attack on October 7 and...
Fiji Women's Minister Lynda Tabuya

By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Fiji's Women's Minister Lynda Tabuya says the decision by the People's Alliance executive council to remove her as deputy...
How the referral has been seen in Turkey

ANALYSIS: By Donald Rothwell, Australian National University In an unprecedented legal development, senior Australian politicians, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, have been referred to the...
Protesters in Meanjin/Brisbane call for an immediate ceasefire

By Alex Bainbridge, Peter Boyle, Isaac Nellist, Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan Ellis, Alex Salmon, Stephen W Enciso and Khaled Ghannam of Green Left Thousands marched for...
The University of the South Pacific's Laucala campus in Fiji

By Monika Singh The University of the South Pacific will host a major Pacific international media conference in July to address critical issues in the...
Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan independence leader has called on the Dutch Parliament to support a United Nations visit to the Melanesian region ruled...
The first moments of a massacre committed by the Israeli occupation

Asia Pacific Report The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) should act urgently to establish an international protection force to safeguard Palestinian civilians and ensure...
Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) has had its first meeting since 2012

By the ABC's Fiji reporter Lice Movono and Pacific Local Journalism Network's Nick Sas in Suva Some described it as a case of looking...
A screenshot of the student video

By Bramo Tingkeo in Port Moresby A disturbing video has surfaced of a female, alleged to be a rape victim, attempting to jump out of...
Associate dean Pacific Sir Collin Tukuitonga

RNZ Pacific A Pasifika health leader says high obesity rates in the Pacific are not new, but an increase in childhood obesity is concerning. A study...

COMMENTARY: By David Robie New Zealand has taken another shameful act in its tone deaf approach to Israel’s War on Gaza this week by declaring...
Newshub staff leaving a meeting on Wednesday

For years news media bosses warned the creaking business model backing journalism would fail at a major local outlet. It finally happened this week...
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa's Neil Scott

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand news media came under fire at today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war...
Inspector-General Mathius Fakhiri

Jubi News Negotiations for the release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens, who has been held captive by the West Papua National Liberation Army...
Military style weapons are a fairly recent addition to tribal fighting in PNG

Warning: This story contains details that may be distressing to some readers. By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent As...
Hiri-Koiari MP Keith Iduhu (from left), Kerenga Kua of Sinasina-Yongomugl (former energy minister), and opposition leader Douglas Tomuriesa

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A vote of no confidence in Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James...
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Oslo, 2017

World Council of Churches Today is Remembrance Day -- marking the 70th anniversary of the largest US nuclear test detonation, Castle Bravo, which took place...
At least 112 Palestinians waiting for food aid have been killed

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato Despite the carnage, United Nations resolutions and international court rulings, Israel's war in Gaza has the potential to...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s MC13 conference

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is being held in Abu...
Vasa Fia Collins

RNZ News The late Green Party MP Fa'anānā Efeso Collins has been remembered by his widow as an "extraordinary man" at a service in South...
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

RNZ News Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has designated the political wing of Hamas as a "terrorist" entity. New Zealand designated the military wing of Hamas as...