Yearly Archives: 2025

"News organisations don't often end up in court for [defamation], but when they do it's big news."

MEDIAWATCH: By RNZ Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock Successive New Zealand governments have dodged the issue of how the news media should be held to account,...
Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad

The New Arab A Palestinian horror film inspired by folklore is moving forward, with journalist and author Plestia Alaqad joining the cast alongside American-born Kuwaiti-Palestinian...
We Used to Be Journos presenter Antoinette Lattouf talks to independent US journalist Chris Hedges

Pacific Media Watch Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf on We Used To Be Journos to unpack his time in Australia, including...
Protesters at an Auckland rally against Israel's genocidal two-year war on Gaza target alleged complicity by RocketLab and BlackSky

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand's Space Minister Judith Collins was warned just two months into Israel's war on Gaza that new BlackSky satellites being launched...
A claim by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that UNRWA is a Hamas “subsidiary” in defiance of International Court of Justice exoneration is “quite shocking”

Pacific Media Watch United States top diplomat Marco Rubio says the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) “is not going to play any role”...
Fiji flashback to May 1983

Asia Pacific Report Fiji opening an embassy in Jerusalem last month in defiance of United Nations resolutions on Occupied Palestine and hosting a visit by...
Tagaloa Cooper (left) and Lisa Tumahai

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Māori and Pasifika leaders are leading climate adaptation, guided by ancestral knowledge and Indigenous...
New Zealand pro-Palestine protesters against Israel's genocidal attacks on Gaza

Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine solidarity and advocacy group in New Zealand has accused an Israeli cabinet minister of "sneaking" into the country this...
French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French national politics have once again cast a shadow on New Caledonia's issues even though the...
Israel's "apartheid wall" looms high above Aida refugee camp, up to nine metres tall in some places

Returning to Aotearoa after half a year in the occupied West Bank, Cole Martin says a peace deal that fails to address the root...
Teachers from Otahuhu Primary School among the thousands at today's "mega strike" rally

RNZ News Thousands have marched through major city streets and rallied in small towns across Aotearoa New Zealand as part of today’s “mega strike” of...
Protesters in New Zealand's "mega strike" today

RNZ News It is being billed as quite possibly New Zealand's biggest labour action in more than 40 years. It is the latest in a growing...
Four members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) were reportedly killed in drone bombings

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) claims more than a dozen civilians have been killed in the...
Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama

RNZ Pacific Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been given a 12-month suspended prison sentence by the Fiji High Court in Suva, local news...
"Friends and colleagues, with few exceptions, are in exile, dead or, in most cases, have disappeared"

This lecture "Requiem for Gaza" was delivered to a sold out audience at the University of South Australia in Adelaide after journalist Chris Hedges'...
Siege busting

Kia Ora Gaza Fifteen years ago today a contingent of six New Zealanders drove three aid-packed ambulances into Gaza as part of the epic international...
Opposition Labour's Peeni Henare

By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter New Zealand's opposition parties have promised to repeal the coalition government's changes to the Marine and Coastal Area...
Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus

Greenpeace Cook Islanders holding a banner reading "Don’t Mine the Moana" have confronted an exploration vessel as it returned to Rarotonga port today, protesting the...
Fijian Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica

RNZ Pacific Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica has stepped down from his position on the eve of his court appearance for corruption-related charges. Kamikamica has...
Political prisoner Marwan Barghouti

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis have beaten unconscious the man most...
A member of the Police Response Team in Solomon Islands

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The Solomon Islands government is looking into establishing a defence force which would make it the fourth Pacific nation...
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel with Prime Minister James Marape

Asia Pacific Report Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed "deep gratitude" for Papua New Guinea's support to his country over many years and during...