Yearly Archives: 2025

Talamua Online News Samoa has dropped in its media and information freedom world ranking from 22 in 2024 to 44 in 2025 in the latest...

Pacific Media Watch To mark the release of the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) partnered with the agency The Good Company...

By Losirene Lacanivalu, of the Cook Islands News A leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group is hoping that the Cook Islands government will speak out...

By Anish Chand Entities and individuals that thrived under the previous government with public relations contracts now want to be part of the media or...

RNZ Pacific The head of Fiji's prison service has been caught on camera involved in a fist fight that appears to have taken place at...

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...

By Kalafi Moala in Nuku'alofa On this World Press Freedom Day, we in the Pacific stand together to defend and promote the right to freedom...

By Michelle Curran of Pasifika TV World Press Freedom Day is a poignant reminder that journalists and media workers are essential for a healthy, functioning...

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...