Yearly Archives: 2025

Between 26 to 30 Gazan journalists have been targeted in this Israeli campaign of assassination. And Anas wanted the UN rapporteur to go public, he wanted others to go public, to stop what Israel was doing

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the...
Journalists and activists Jeremy Rose and David Robie in conversation at the Aro Valley Peace Talks

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...
Prime Minister 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...
The Elders' joint statement says they saw evidence of food and medical aid being denied entry

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...
Al Jazeera honouring its killed journalists in a news cast today

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...
Assassinated Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Anas al-Sharif

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...
NZ Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick with three of her party colleagues all wearing Palestinian keffiyeh

By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has been ejected from Parliament's debating chamber and told to...
Manaaki Rangatahi's Brooke Stanley

RNZ Pacific Waves In Aotearoa, a Pacific advocate for youth homelessness says the country must address poverty and systemic inequities to fix the housing affordability...
Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif, one of the five journalists and media people killed by Israel

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch I never knew Anas al-Sharif personally. But somehow he seemed to be part of our whānau. We watched...
A protest calls for sanctions against Israel

Asia Pacific Report A leading advocacy group supporting Palerstine has called on the government to follow Germany’s lead and suspend New Zealand military support for...
Gazan journalist Anas al-Sharif targeted by Israelis in a military strike that has killed an Al Jazeera media crew of five

COMMENTARY: By Saige England Another truth-teller targeted and killed in Gaza. I wish the journalists -- some of whom I taught to master the skills...
An Israeli army spokesperson had falsely called Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif a "terrorist" multiple times

Pacific Media Watch The Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement today that it is appalled to learn of the killing of an Al...
Journalist and author Dr David Robie speaking to the Fabian Society

Pacific Media Watch Pacific affairs and media commentator Dr David Robie reflected on the 1985 Rainbow Warrior mission to Rongelap atoll to help US nuclear...
New Zealand's planned fisheries laws changes "spell disaster for the already struggling ocean around us"

By Emma Page Greenpeace says moves to weaken ocean protection through dodgy fisheries “reforms” will be met with strong opposition, as Oceans and Fisheries Minister...
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (right), with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter The prime minister has announced a new High Commission building in Papua New Guinea and an economic support...
Prime Minister Mark Brown says the New Zealand-Cook Islands relationship is too strong

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Rarotonga The Cook Islands has no intention of leaving its special relationship with New Zealand, says Prime Minister...
Dramatic increases in food prices always mean there is a famine, even though not every famine is accompanied by rising food costs

ANALYSIS: By Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The words and pictures documenting the famine in the Gaza strip are horrifying. The...
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent Leaders of the three Pacific nations with diplomatic ties to Taiwan are united in a message...
Incarcerated Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti

COMMENTARY:  By Eugene Doyle The world’s most important hostage -- must be released. The powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the...
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters with Minister for Pacific Peoples Shane Reti celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Cook Islands constitution in Tāmaki Makaurau

By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist New Zealand's foreign minister says Cook Islanders are free to choose whether their country continues in free association...
Progressive journalist and presenter Mehdi Hasan

Pacific Media Watch The New York Times recently revealed that the Israeli military has “never found proof” that Hamas has “systematically stolen aid from the...
Some of the estimated 100,000 to 300,000 people - depending on whose estimate - who protested yesterday on the Sydney Harbour Bridge over Israel's genocidal war on Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Clancy Overell, editor of The Betoota Advocate After years of sitting on the fence and looking the other way, the Australian media is...