Yearly Archives: 2025

Flotilla trio Rana Hamida (from left), Youssef Sammour and Samuel Leason

RNZ News More than 100 people who were part of the intercepted flotilla to Gaza -- including those from New Zealand -- have entered Jordan. The...
Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama announces the caretaker Bougainville Executive Council (BEC)

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific Bougainville's re-elected President Ishmael Toroama has announced a caretaker government following a formal swearing-in ceremony on Monday in the capital...
Defiant pariah state leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

New Zealanders deserve to know how the country’s foreign policy is made, writes John Hobbs. ANALYSIS: By John Hobbs The New Zealand government remains unwilling to...
Celebrated Middle East expert and journalist Chris Hedges . . . out, replaced by a former IDF colonel now ambassador by Australia's National Press Club?

One Path Network The National Press Club of Australia has abruptly cancelled a scheduled address by renowned journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Chris Hedges, who...
Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Bougainvilleans went to the polls today, keen to elect a leader who will continue their fight for independence. "There's...
Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son

ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett, University of Technology Sydney Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza...
Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer A West Papuan activist says the transfer of four political prisoners by Indonesian authorities is a breach of...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) held bilateral discussions with the United Nations Secretary-General

RNZ Pacific The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will address Papua New Guinea's national Parliament today. The UN chief is in Papua New Guinea on a...
"His favourite merchant." - Mr Fish

Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted...
A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel

Israel is boosting its Zionist influence in the Pacific. Australia has exposed such media influence. The media in the Philippines is now under scrutiny....
Dr Anthony Bellanger, the French general-secretary of the Brussels-based International FeDeration of Journalists, talks to Al Jazeera in an interview today on the death toll of Gazan journalists

Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement Avaaz, more than 250 news outlets...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital/social lead Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has hinted that the country may "hold its first-ever referendum" following a landmark...

Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists...
Palestinian activist Nadine Mortaja announces the planned "March for Humanity"

RNZ News New Zealand police say planning is well underway ahead of a pro-Palestinian march that will shut the Auckland Harbour bridge later this month. The...
Indonesian security forces fire tear gas to quell protests at Manokwari

Asia Pacific Report West Papuan civil society and solidarity networks are calling for urgent action over a brutal Indonesian security forces crackdown that has led...
Former NZ politician Aupito Tofae Su'a William Sio

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor, and Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist in Apia, Samoa A former New Zealand politician says there is a...
Filipino media "influencers" complicit in Israeli propaganda programme

COMMENTARY: By Walden Bello I am alarmed by reports that Filipino journalists were flown in by the Israeli government to participate in what is essentially...
Thousands of Bougainvilleans flocked to the polls on 23 November 2019 to vote in the referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The dominant issue going into the next election in Bougainville next week is not much different from the...
Samoa's Electoral Commissioner Toleafoa Tuiafelolo Alexander Stanley briefing the media on election day

By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist in Apia, Samoa Samoa's electoral commissioner Toleafoa Tuiafelolo Alexander Stanley told the media the official count kicks off on...
Columnist Gordon Campbell

COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Chances are, anyone whose family is dying of starvation would not be looking for New Zealand to have a prolonged debate...
New Zealand protesters carrying symbolic bodies of journalists assassinated by the Israeli military in Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell "Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu has 'lost the plot' and has condemned attacks on Gaza. "It is...
Indonesian security forces clash with West Papuan protesters in Manokwari, Sorong, today

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan independence advocate has accused Indonesia of "continuing to murder children" while escalating its military operations across the Melanesian region. United...