Monthly Archives: May 2026

By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Niue's assembly has re-elected Dalton Tagelagi as its prime minister, continuing his leadership for the next three years. Tagelagi,...

PROFILE: By Campion Ohasio The Solomon Islands has entered a new political era. In a historic morning at Parliament House yesterday, Matthew Cooper Wale was...

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index dossier online three...

Fijian Media Association Fiji’s media workers finally got to celebrate their World Press Freedom Day this week 11 days late -- on Thursday, May 14. The...

ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran. The...

Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has criticised plans for the country taking part in next month's military exercises with Israel and...

COMMENTARY: By Frances Palmer While appreciating certain points in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech "Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World" on current challenges...

Asia Pacific Report Amnesty International says it is "deeply alarmed" over the obstruction of justice and chaotic scenes -- including gunfire -- witnessed at the...

The NSW Parliament’s antisemitism report was folded into the Bondi Royal Commission, missing the airing of contesting views and rigorous questioning, reports Michael West...

By Kim Wingerei Saher Alghorra, a Palestinian photojournalist, has won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of photographs published in The New York Times. What’s...

ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As New Caledonia marks the second anniversary of a spate of unrest and riots that...

By Aida Ulim in Jayapura Papuan women attending a free speech forum organised by the Dogiyai Student Association in Jayapura have condemned what they describe...

By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter Opposition New Zealand MPs say former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman was "hounded" into resigning, after a "witch...

By Atereano Mateariki, RNZ Pacific journalist Previously it was reporting on governments or politics that brought trouble for Tonga's journalists -- now it's reporting on...

The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy, writes...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle "Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this citizen; and the sovereign should avenge...

By Kate Newton, RNZ News climate change correspondent The political activist suing major New Zealand emitters over climate change damage says a law change blocking...

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone In a fawning softball 60 Minutes interview released on Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of winning “the propaganda war” on...

RNZ Pacific Fiji's military chief has made a public admission at a church service that the institution was "at fault" for the death of Jone...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Despite a trade-related controversy that erupted last week between the governments of Vanuatu and New Caledonia,...

By Luka Forman, RNZ journalist A community leader from a tiny island says preserving her native tongue is more important than ever, as schools on...

By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent One of the biggest electricity increases in the history of the Marshalls Energy Company was implemented...