Yearly Archives: 2025

A "No Nuclear Winter" placard at a pro-Palestine rally in Auckland at the weekend

Asia Pacific Report The Green Party has called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to rule out Aotearoa New Zealand joining the AUKUS military technical pact...
New Zealand peace protesters target a local company branch of an Australian armaments manufacturer

Asia Pacific Report One of the leading Palestinian solidarity groups in Aotearoa New Zealand has demanded that the government condemn Israel’s cutting off of all...
French Overseas Territories Minister Manuel Valls

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls left New Caledonia at the weekend after a one-week stay...
Papua New Guinea is reeling after the separate killings of two women

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Content warning: This story discusses rape and violence. Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested nine more men...
Ultimately, the chaos Trump 2.0 has unleashed

ANALYSIS: By Matthew Sussex, Australian National University Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself...
Development Policy Centre research fellow Dr Terence Wood

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The Trump administration's decision to eliminate more than 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding...

By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter Protesters have scaled the building of an international weapons company in Rolleston, Christchurch, in resistance to it establishing...
A New Zealand protester holds a poster for the "Trump Gaza" ethnic cleansing plan for a tourism development

Asia Pacific Report The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has accused Israel of "blackmail" over aid for Gaza and urged the US government to act more...
An Israeli tank in an intimidating move in the occupied West Bank

Pacific Media Watch With international media’s attention on the Israeli and Palestinian captives exchange,  Israel's military and settlers have been forcibly displacing tens of thousands...
The aftermath of Indonesian forces burning temporary shelters in the Star Mountains, West Papua

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Last week, on 26 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto officially launched Indonesia’s first bullion banks, marking a significant shift in the...
An Israeli soldiers "not welcome" placard at the Palestine solidarity rally and march in the heart of New Zealand's largest city Auckland today

Asia Pacific Report The State of Palestine has submitted a written plea to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking it for an advisory opinion...
Rongelap Islanders on board the Rainbow Warrior bound for Mejatto in May 1985

Asia Pacific Report In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the...
Aotearoa Tongan Response Group's Anahila Kanongata'a (from left), Pakilau Manase Lua and Karlo Mila

By Khalia Strong of Pacific Media Network Tongan community leaders and artists in New Zealand have criticised the Treaty Principles Bill while highlighting the ongoing...
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News As concerns continue to emerge over China's "unusual" naval exercises in the Tasman Sea, raising eyebrows from...
Relatives and supporters protest outside Goroka

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The family of a Papua New Guinea police constable, killed in an ambush last month, has blocked a...
Once you recognise this manipulated media environment

The re-election of Donald Trump is proof that the Right's most powerful weapon is media manipulation, ensuring the public sphere is not engaged in...
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Mark Brown has survived a motion in the Cook Islands Parliament aimed at ousting his government, the second Pacific Island leader...
University students in Adelaide protesting over Israel's genocide in Gaza

Asia Pacific Report An independent Jewish body has condemned the move by Australia’s 39 universities to endorse a "dangerous and politicised" definition of antisemitism which...
Political symbols in opposition

A rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament under the banner of Jews for a Free Palestine was arranged for Sunday, February 9....
"It's got some usefulness to achieve."

RNZ Pacific The Papua New Guinea government wants to have everyone on their National Identity (NID) card system by the country's 50th anniversary on 16...
Irish popular support for a free Palestine remains strong

Asia Pacific Report Israel has now banned another European Union parliamentarian from entering the country, reports Al Jazeera. The government gave no reasons why Lynn Boylan,...
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has survived a vote of no confidence after weeks of political turmoil. In...