Yearly Archives: 2025

Troubled road to Nouméa

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The main provincial road linking New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, to the south of the main island...
Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer The chair of a World Health Organisation (WHO) advisory group is urging world leaders to denounce misinformation around...

COMMENTARY: By Eman Mohammed On December 28, 21-year-old student journalist Shatha Al-Sabbagh was assassinated near her home in Jenin. Her family accused snipers from the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as portrayed on a protest banner in New Zealand's largest city Auckland yesterday

Asia Pacific Report Sultan Barakat, a professor at Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, says the release of Palestinian prisoners is a “symbolic win” rather than...
Protesters against Israeli genocide in Nelson today

Asia Pacific Report A defiant Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair, John Minto, has appealed to Aotearoa New Zealand to stand with the "majority...
West Papua independence activists

By Victor Mambor and Tria Dianti The Indonesian government’s proposal to grant amnesty to pro-independence rebels in West Papua has stirred scepticism as the administration...
A young girl keeps vigil besides lists of thousands of names of the more than 47,000 Palestinians killed by Israel in the war on Gaza

Why has any discussion about Israel, its violations of international law, and the international legal expectations for third party states to hold IDF soldiers...
Cheerleader Ali Gouda leads the Palestine genocide protesters into Te Komititanga Square during the "march of the martyrs"

Asia Pacific Report UN Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese has hailed the formation of The Hague Group, describing it as the...
It would be clearly unwise for New Zealand to threaten or cut aid to Kiribati

COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, 1News Pacific correspondent There has rightly been much debate and analysis over New Zealand’s decision to review the aid it gives...
The late Sir Julius Chan

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The former Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) commander who defied a government decision to send mercenaries to...
The Frontier War documentary

Pacific Media Watch A West Papuan advocacy group is calling for an urgent international inquiry into allegations that Indonesian security forces have used the chemical...
USA "sold to Israel"

The Gaza ceasefire deal proves that Israeli politics can only survive if it is engaged in perpetual war. COMMENTARY: By Abdelhalim Abdelrahman US President Donald Trump...
His Majesty King Tupou VI appoints ‘Aisake Valu Eke

COMMENTARY: By Kalafi Moala Long live the king and long may he reign, so goes the traditional proclamation. In Tonga, King Tupou VI has shown...
Kiribati MP Ruth Cross Kwansing

A NZ-born Kiribati member of Parliament, Ruth Cross Kwansing, has tried to bring in some Pacific common sense into the diplomatic tiff between her...
Sir Julius Chan . . . "Last man standing"

OBITUARY: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Papua New Guinea and Neville Choi Papua New Guineans have launched an outpouring of grief and appreciation...
Palestinian politician, MP and activist Khalida Jarrar

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Watching footage of Palestinian parliamentarian and hostage Khalida Jarrar emerge from Israeli captivity was jarring -- a far, muffled cry from...
While PNG Prime Minister James Marape is criticising US climate policy

PNG Post-Courier In a fervent appeal to the global community, Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea has called on US President Donald Trump...
Displaced Palestinians walk through the destruction in Rafah in southern Gaza

The New Arab Implementation of Israel's ban on the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA will be disastrous, the aid agency's chief has told the Security...
PSNA's Gaza "genocide hotline"

Asia Pacific Report A national Palestine advocacy group has hit back at critics of its "genocide hotline" campaign against soldiers involved in Israel's war against...
Pacific Islands climate justice protesters among those demonstrating at The Hague

COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain It didn’t come as a surprise to see President Donald Trump sign executive orders to again pull out of the...
Cartoon: Malc McGookin/Independent Australia

What will happen to Australia -- and New Zealand -- once the superpower that has been followed into endless battles, the United States, finally...
An artist's impression of Quay Park stadium - Te Tōangaroa

After lengthy, torrid and emotional debate a critical decision for the future of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau is being made in March. One party will...