Yearly Archives: 2025

Palestinians perform prayer next to the rubble of a mosque that was destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces during the Gaza genocide

ANALYSIS: By Lamis Andoni The rift between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is real. However, to understand it, one must...
New Zealand protesters hold a placard calling for sanctions against Israel

Asia Pacific Report A national pro-Palestinian advocacy group has accused the New Zealand government of providing political cover and rewarding the Israeli genocide by deploying...
Pro-independence FLNKS representative in the French National Assembly Emmanuel Tjibaou

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French MPs narrowly endorsed the postponement of New Caledonia's provincial elections to no later than 28...
Protesters accusing Rocket Lab and the New Zealand government of being complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza

Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has challenged Defence Minister Judith Collins over her "can't be trusted" backing for controversial BlackSky Technology...
Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A Marshall Islands lawmaker has called on Pacific legislatures to establish and strengthen their...
"Pacific Justice" petition

Asia Pacific Report A former National MP has launched a petition calling for "equality and respect" in New Zealand's immigration visa treatment of Pacific Islanders,...
Professor Biman Prasad (left) and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in December 2022

RNZ Pacific Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has confirmed that his Finance Minister — and one of three deputies — has resigned after being charged...
The Pacific's inaction is particularly striking when compared to Bougainville

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin When the Pacific Islands Forum concluded in Honiara last month, leaders pledged regional unity under the motto "Iumi Tugeda" — "We...
Unity will be crucial if the Labour Party is to sell its proposed capital gains tax

COMMENTARY: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor It was hardly a dream debut for Labour's long-awaited, much-argued-over tax package for Aotearoa New Zealand. What...
NZ measles outbreak

By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned Aotearoa New Zealand to urgently close the "alarming" gaps in measles...
Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad

COMMENTARY: By Stanley Simpson, director of Mai TV You can wake up one morning in Fiji and feel like you're living in a totally different...
New Zealand pro-Palestinian protesters declare their solidarity with Gaza as a "stand for humanity"

Asia Pacific Report Middle East political analyst Zeidon Alkinani says Israel’s military is continuing “business as usual” to the east of the yellow line in...
A child holds a medical "safe staffing" placard at the mega strike in Auckland

COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell On October 17, I received a brief email from a former Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) vice-president: “Can’t wait for...
"News organisations don't often end up in court for [defamation], but when they do it's big news."

MEDIAWATCH: By RNZ Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock Successive New Zealand governments have dodged the issue of how the news media should be held to account,...
Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad

The New Arab A Palestinian horror film inspired by folklore is moving forward, with journalist and author Plestia Alaqad joining the cast alongside American-born Kuwaiti-Palestinian...
We Used to Be Journos presenter Antoinette Lattouf talks to independent US journalist Chris Hedges

Pacific Media Watch Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf on We Used To Be Journos to unpack his time in Australia, including...
Protesters at an Auckland rally against Israel's genocidal two-year war on Gaza target alleged complicity by RocketLab and BlackSky

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand's Space Minister Judith Collins was warned just two months into Israel's war on Gaza that new BlackSky satellites being launched...
A claim by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that UNRWA is a Hamas “subsidiary” in defiance of International Court of Justice exoneration is “quite shocking”

Pacific Media Watch United States top diplomat Marco Rubio says the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) “is not going to play any role”...
Fiji flashback to May 1983

Asia Pacific Report Fiji opening an embassy in Jerusalem last month in defiance of United Nations resolutions on Occupied Palestine and hosting a visit by...
Tagaloa Cooper (left) and Lisa Tumahai

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Māori and Pasifika leaders are leading climate adaptation, guided by ancestral knowledge and Indigenous...
New Zealand pro-Palestine protesters against Israel's genocidal attacks on Gaza

Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine solidarity and advocacy group in New Zealand has accused an Israeli cabinet minister of "sneaking" into the country this...
French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French national politics have once again cast a shadow on New Caledonia's issues even though the...