Yearly Archives: 2025
Support for changing date of Australia Day softens, but remains strong among young people...
ANALYSIS: By David Lowe, Deakin University; Andrew Singleton, Deakin University, and Joanna Cruickshank, Deakin University
After many years of heated debate over whether January 26...
Trump’s ‘free speech’ vision comes at expense of press freedom
Pacific Media Watch
Among his first official acts on returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “restoring freedom of speech...
Ni-Vanuatu journalist Doddy Morris balances grief and duty in the aftermath of earthquake
By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson
For Doddy Morris, a journalist with the Vanuatu Daily Post, the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Vanuatu last month on December...
The Listening Post: ‘They have been targeting media – anybody who tells the truth’
Pacific Media Watch
With a ceasefire in force in Gaza for a week, the Israeli army and settlers have intensified their attacks against Palestinians in...
News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change media laws
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament and is liable to prosecution -- not that government will lift a finger to enforce...
NZ Palestinian network advocate Janfrie Wakim praises ‘heroic Gaza’, calls for more action
Asia Pacific Report
One of the key early leaders of a national Palestinian solidarity network in Aotearoa New Zealand today praised the "heroic" resilience and...
Vanuatu AG condemns Trump’s Paris climate treaty exit as ‘troubling precedent’
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews
Vanuatu’s top lawyer has called out the United States for “bad behavior” after newly inaugurated President Donald Trump withdrew the...
RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the region
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager
RNZ International (RNZI) began broadcasting to the Pacific region 35 years ago -- on 24 January 1990, the same...
Mars, watch out — President Trump’s coming for you too
COMMENTARY: By Belén Fernández
It was a cold day in Washington, DC, on Tuesday when Donald Trump was sworn in for his second stint as...
Fiji solidarity network welcomes Gaza ceasefire but calls for ‘justice, accountability’
Asia Pacific Report
The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network (FPSN) and its allies have called for "justice and accountability" over Israel's 15 months of genocide...
‘Entire Pacific region at risk’, says UNAIDS on Fiji HIV outbreak
RNZ Pacific
Fiji's Minister for Health and Medical Services has declared an HIV outbreak.
Dr Ratu Atonio Rabici Lalabalavu announced 1093 new HIV cases from the...
Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage
Pacific Media Watch
The Al Jazeera Network has condemned the arrest of its occupied West Bank correspondent by Palestinian security services as a bid by...
Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel
People get ready
There's a train a-coming
You don't need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels...
Northern Mariana Islands advocates hit back at Trump diversity directives
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
Two LGBTQIA+ advocates in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are up in arms over...
Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose
The International Court of Justice heard last month that after reconstruction is factored in Israel’s war on Gaza will have...
‘Decolonise’ aid urgent call from Fiji’s Prasad to face Pacific climate crisis
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad has told an international conference in Bangkok that some of the most...
Israel has ramped up West Bank raids to ‘distract’ from ceasefire, says analyst
Asia Pacific Report
Israeli forces have been ramping up operations in the occupied West Bank-- mainly the Jenin refugee camp – to “distract” from the...
Samoa political update: Fiame prevails in leadership crisis
SPECIAL REPORT: By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson and Lilomaiava Maina Vai
The Speaker of the House, Papali’i Li’o Taeu Masipau, decisively addressed a letter from FAST,...
Friend or foe? How Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire
ANALYSIS: By Nicholas Khoo, University of Otago
Donald Trump is an unusual United States President in that he may be the first to strike greater...
Palestinians return home to Gaza ashes – if we want peace, face the truth
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Celebration time. Some Palestinian prisoners have been released. A mother reunited with her daughter. A young mother reunited with her babies.
Still...
Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide
COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan, editor of Against The Current
New Zealand's One News interviewed a Gaza journalist last week who has called out the Western...
Ethnic community leaders slam Lee’s removal from diversity portfolio
By Gaurav Sharma, RNZ IndoNZ senior journalist
Community leaders surprised by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's removal of Melissa Lee from the ethnic communities' portfolio are...