Yearly Archives: 2025

Asia Pacific Report Health workers spoke out at a rally condemning Israel's genocide in Gaza and the latest atrocity against Palestinian aid workers today, calling...

RNZ Pacific Pacific climate activists this week handed a letter from civil society to this year's United Nations climate conference hosts, Brazil, emphasising their demands...

By Layla Bailey-McDowell, RNZ Māori news journalist Legal experts and Māori advocates say the fight to protect Te Tiriti is only just beginning -- as...

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist Pasifika comedy troupe Naked Samoans is facing a backlash from some members of the Pacific community over its promotional...

OPEN LETTER: By Martyn Bradbury, editor and publisher of The Daily Blog NZME directors ‘have concerns’ about businessman Jim Grenon taking editorial control NZME’s directors have...

Pacific Media Watch Israel has been targeting journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory with more intensity since October 7, 2023, says Australian journalist and author...

RNZ Pacific Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama has condemned the circulation of an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video depicting a physical confrontation between him and...

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The BBC’s news verification service, Verify, digitally reconstructed a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show how it...

COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell The 1981 Springbok Tour was one of the most controversial events in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history. For 56 days, between July...

Pacific Media Watch One of the many casualties of the Trump administration's crackdown on "soft power" that enabled many democratic media and truth to power...

Asia Pacific Report The chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has described Gaza as “no land” for children, as two rallies were held...

While public opinion of Israel plummets, each day the genocide continues without significant repercussions only reinforces that they can ignore this opinion, writes Alex...

Now that Phil Goff has ended his term as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the UK, he is officially free to speak his mind...

Democracy Now! Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) this...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Norfolk Island sees its United States tariff as an acknowledgment of independence from Australia. Norfolk Island, despite being an Australian...

By Harlyne Joku and BenarNews staff Residents of an informal Port Moresby settlement that was razed following the gang rape and murder of a woman...

ANALYSIS: By Niven Winchester, Auckland University of Technology We now have a clearer picture of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and how they will affect...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Although New Zealand and Australia seem to have escaped the worst of Donald Trump's latest tariffs, some Pacific Islands...

By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter A stoush between the Chief Human Rights Commissioner and a Jewish community leader has flared up following a...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Joe Gill It is difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel's genocidal onslaught on Gaza. Brazen crimes against humanity have become...

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has ruled that Parliament must be recalled on April 8 to debate a...

By Leilani Farha of The New Arab "I started filming when we started to end." With these haunting words, Basel Adra begins No Other Land,...