Monthly Archives: August 2025
Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must read for activism
REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls
Author David Robie left his cabin on the Rainbow Warrior three days before it was blown up by the Directorate General...
Call for legal shield for Fiji National Provident Fund in review hearing
By Elena Vucukula in Suva
The main problem in for Fiji retirement is that there is no law to protect the Fiji National Provident Fund,...
New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
A Pacific analyst and commentator says it is unlikely that Vanuatu will agree to any exclusive rights in the...
‘Will I make it back alive?’: Gaza journalists tell of being targeted by Israel
Pacific Media Watch
Palestinian journalists have long known Gaza to be the most dangerous place on earth for media workers, but Israel’s attack on a...
Pro-Palestinian protests across NZ call on government to sanction Israel
RNZ News
Protesters staged pro-Palestinian demonstrations across Aotearoa New Zealand at the weekend, calling on the government to place sanctions on Israel for its war...
Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when –...
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto
This morning there is no article on the political page of The New Zealand Herald about the plight of people in...
Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
A New Zealand policeman pushed over an elderly man who was doing nothing but waving a Palestinian flag at a solidarity...
Luxon ‘grow a spine’ chants as big rallies call for NZ to recognise Palestine...
Asia Pacific Report
"Grow a spine for Palestine!" was a frequent theme among about 5000 people protesting in the heart of New Zealand's largest city...
Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy on Gaza
ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell
The word “Gaza” is taking on similar connotations to what the word “Auschwitz” meant to a previous generation. It signifies a...
‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s seat
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Elizabeth Tako Palin is one of five women contesting the Bougainville North women's reserved seat next month.
It was...
‘We need to be involved’: Pasifika candidates running in Auckland local election
By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist
Former Pacific candidates and new faces are putting their names forward for this year's Auckland local government election in...
‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates
Pacific Media Watch
Union members of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) have made a video honouring the 242 Palestinian journalists and media workers...
The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds...
Netanyahu’s mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under the West’s cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution.
ANALYSIS: By...
‘Full sovereignty and independence’: FLNKS rejects France’s Bougival project
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's pro-independence front, the FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front), has formally confirmed its...
John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel
ANALYSIS: By John Hobbs
Aotearoa New Zealand once earned praise for its “principled” and “independent” foreign policy. Think nuclear-free Pacific, for example.
Yet that reputation doesn’t...
‘If I die, I die steadfast … I bear witness … for the path...
Anas al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, last Sunday has triggered protests around the world, including journalists in Israel. He left behind...
Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert
Democracy Now!
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Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the...
Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday
Asia Pacific Report
It was a bit like the old days -- the heyday of Aotearoa New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement in the 1980s, leading up...
Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon
By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist in Parliament
New Zealand's Prime Minister says the war in Gaza is "utterly appalling" and Israeil Prime Minister...
Israel deliberately obstructing aid, says former PM Helen Clark
By Niva Chittock, RNZ News WorldWatch presenter/producer
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says she has witnessed Israel deliberately obstructing life-saving humanitarian aid into...
MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime
Pacific Media Watch
Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of...
RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Israeli military's "disgraceful tactic" to cover up war crimes in...