Yearly Archives: 2024

"All Out For Kanaky"

RNZ Pacific The French Ambassador to the Pacific says President Emmanuel Macron is yet to sign-off on a letter from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)...
Pro-Palestinian students hold a sit-in at Melbourne University

ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel-Fattah Since 7 October 2023, across every profession and social realm in Australia -- teachers, students, doctors, nurses, academics, public servants, lawyers,...
New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Australia and New Zealand’s populations must now wake up to the fact that our countries have been drawn into what ForeignPolicy.com...
Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

By Brooke Tindall, Queensland University of Technology With more than 50 Fijian villages earmarked for potential relocation in the next five to 10 years due...
Mining giant RioTinto

RNZ Pacific About 4500 Bougainvillean residents now back a lawsuit against mining giant Rio Tinto. This is an additional 1500 people from the autonomous Papua New...
"All Eyes on Papua" . . . a campaign against Indonesian exploitation of Papuan rainforests

By Stefan Armbruster, Harlyne Joku and Tria Dianti No progress has been made in sending a UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces despite...
French riot police near the spot - marked with a tribal offering - where 19-year-old Jybril Salo was shot in the back last May.

RNZ Pacific New Zealand should join others in calling New Caledonia's third independence referendum invalid, one of the founders of the Kanaky Aotearoa Solidarity Network...
Australian academic and social justIce advocate Helen Hill

COMMENTARY: By Sandy Yule When Melbourne-born Helen Hill, an outstanding social activist, scholar and academic, died on 7 May 2024 at the age of 79,...
Professor Vijay Naidu

Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji...
The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel’s occupation of the Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show in The Hague, where the International...
The Port Moresby call centre for the national census

By Bramo Tingkeo in Port Moresby Port Moresby residents who have missed out on the Papua New Guinea's national census counting have been urged to...
A Kanaky prison parallel with Palestine

In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the...
Suspended Fiji Director of Public Prosecutions Christopher Pryde

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital/social lead Foreign Minister Winston Peters has "hung . . . out to dry" Fiji's suspended New Zealand Director of...
A Post-Courier artist's impression of the Chimbu attack

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Chuave District Development Authority is condemning an attack on a priest and his team in Chimbu province. Father Ryszard Wajda (SVD),...
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative to the South Pacific Jonathan Veitch

By Sainimili Magimagi in Suva Family members keep silent on the issue of violence in Fiji and individuals continue to be the victims, according to...
Tahiti's veteran politician Gaston Flosse (left) with Bruno Sandras, vice-president of the Amuitahiraa o te Nunaa Maohi party

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesia's veteran politician, 93-year-old Gaston Flosse, announced last week he is stepping down from his...
Three killings of Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya

Asia Pacific Report A brutal killing of three Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya reveals that occupied West Papua is a ticking time bomb under Indonesian...
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

By Pita Ligaiula in Tokyo The Pacific Islands Forum hopes to send a high-level delegation to Kanaky New Caledonia to investigate the current political crisis...
PNG Communications Technology Minister Tmothy Masiu

By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the Pacific,...
ICJ's Chief Justice Nawaf Salam

Asia Pacific Report The decision of the International Court of Justice that Israeli settlements on Palestinian land are illegal demands immediate action from the New...
USP's Laucala campus

RNZ Pacific The University of the South Pacific staff associations are up in arms about the sacking of a union leader and academic by the...
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

RNZ Pacific The Pacific Island Forum could serve as a "constructive force" to find a "path forward" in Kanaky New Caledonia, New Zealand Foreign Affairs...