Yearly Archives: 2025

ANALYSIS: By Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University and Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne Among the many lessons to be learnt by Australia's defeated Liberal-National coalition...

Pacific Media Watch An international NGO seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea says it has been in talks with Malta’s government about...

By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Nauru's ambition to commercially mine the seabed is likely at risk following President Donald Trump's executive order last...

Australia (ranked 29th) and New Zealand (ranked 16th) are cited as positive examples by Reporters Without Borders in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index...

World Media Freedom Day reflections of a protester Yesterday, World Media Freedom Day, we marched to Television New Zealand in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to deliver...

By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has paid tribute to all those working the media industry in his message to mark...

Asia Pacific Report About 1000 pro-Palestinian protesters marked World Press Freedom Day -- May 3 -- today by marching on the public broadcaster Television New...

Asia Pacific Report A human rights agency has called for an investigation into the drone attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid ship Conscience with...

An 11th-hour blitzkrieg for the Australian election 2025 tomorrow claims the Greens are enabling extremists who “will do anything in their power to establish...

Pacific Media Watch While Aotearoa New Zealand improved three places in the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index -- up to 16th -- and most...

Pacific Media Watch After a year and a half of war, nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the Israeli army -- including at...

Asia Pacific Report The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the...

Teals and Greens are under political attack from a new pro-fossil fuel, pro-Israel astroturfing group, adding to the onslaught by far-right lobbyists Advance Australia...

By Ruth Hill, RNZ News reporter Striking senior New Zealand doctors have hit back at the Health Minister's attack on their union for "forcing" patients...

Asia Pacific Report Thousands of senior hospital doctors and specialists walked off the job today for an unprecedented 24-hour strike in protest over stalled contract...

COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Wake Despite all the political machinations and hate towards the media coming from the president of the United States, I always thought...

Broadcasting Standards Authority New Zealand's Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has upheld complaints about two 1News reports relating to violence around a football match in Amsterdam...

Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is...

By Reza Azam Greenpeace has condemned an announcement by The Metals Company to submit the first application to commercially mine the seabed. "The first application to...

Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle 30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...

By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson in New York Claire Charters, an expert in indigenous rights in international and constitutional law, has told the United Nations the...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls, who is visiting New Caledonia this week for the third...