Monthly Archives: March 2025

This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Pacific Media Watch Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths of Plains FM96.9 radio talk to Dr David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report, about heightened...
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the need for Aotearoa New Zealand to impose sanctions against Israel has...
"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Today I attended a demonstration outside both Aotearoa New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in...
New Zealand journalist Mohamed Hassan presenting the Big Picture podcast

Asia Pacific Report At least 400 people have been killed after a surprise Israeli attack on Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday. The Israeli government...
NZ's opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins

RNZ News New Zealand opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins is accusing the prime minister of reversing a long-held foreign policy during his current trip to...
The morgue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza

Israel says President Donald Trump green lit a scorched-earth bombing of Gaza that wiped out entire families and killed dozens of infants and other...
Indonesian police arrest the "Sentani 12" activists

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan liberation advocacy group has condemned the arrest of 12 activists by Indonesian police and demanded their immediate release. The West...
Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea being declared a Christian nation may offer the impression that the country will improve, but it...
How Al Jazeera today reported the resumption of Israeli air strikes on Gaza

Asia Pacific Report A national Palestinian advocacy group has called on the Aotearoa New Zealand government to immediately condemn Israel for its resumption today of...
Protesters in Auckland call for a permanent end to the war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and for justice

ANALYSIS: By Robert Patman New Zealand's National-led coalition government’s policy on Gaza seems caught between a desire for a two-state diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian...
A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

Columbia Journalism School Freedom of the press -- a bedrock principle of American democracy -- is under threat in the United States. Here at Columbia University...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor A Fijian academic believes Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's failed attempt to garner enough parliamentary support to change the country's...
A crew member on board the RAN frigate HMAS Stuart monitors the Chinese Navy's missile destroyer Zunyi and the supply ship Weishanhu

SPECIAL REPORT: By Peter Cronau for Declassified Australia Australia is caught in a jam, between an assertive American ally and a bold Chinese trading partner....
Jax Taylor of Waiheke Island, one of the New Zealand protesters reciting poetry

Asia Pacific Report A former US diplomat, Nabeel Khoury, says President Donald Trump’s decision to launch attacks against the Houthis is misguided, and this will...
The flags of Guam and the US

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan in Hagatna, Guam Debate on Guam’s future as a US territory has intensified with its legislature due to vote on a non-binding...
Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte awaiting trial

Pacific Media Watch Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has recalled that 20 journalists were killed during the six-year Philippines presidency of...
Besma at the "Free Palestine" rally in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau

Asia Pacific Report Protesters at the Aotearoa New Zealand's weekly "free Palestine" rallies today gave a tribute to poet Mahmoud Darwish -- the "liberation voice...
"No circumspection. No leadership."

COMMENTARY: By Greg Barns When it comes to antisemitism, politicians in Australia are often quick to jump on the claim without waiting for evidence. With notable...
Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro

SPECIAL REPORT: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro The late Member of Parliament Jeton Anjain and...
Māori entities have grown from contributing $17 billion to New Zealand's GDP

By Emma Andrews, RNZ Henare te Ua Māori journalism intern Māori contributions to the Aotearoa New Zealand economy have far surpassed the projected goal of...
Canadian billionaire James Grenon and NZME

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis New Zealand-based Canadian billionaire James Grenon owes the people of this country an immediate explanation of his intentions regarding media conglomerate...
The Pacific and the world

COMMENTARY: By Sione Tekiteki and Joel Nilon Ongoing wars and conflict around the world expose how international law and norms can be co-opted. With the...