Monthly Archives: August 2026

PSNA's Leeann Wahanui-Peters reading out Te Pāti Māori's statement for co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Asia Pacific Report Four opposition party spokespeople today condemned the New Zealand coalition government’s Middle East policies and called on voters to oust it and...
"Gaza is not for sale" . . . the spray painted slogan at President Trump’s Turnberry golf resort

Pacific Media Watch Palestine Action activists accused of vandalising a Scottish golf course owned by United States President Donald Trump have been accused of “terrorism”...
The Realm of New Zealand's four leaders

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific New Zealand says its connections to its Realm countries remain strong and stable, after the first of a series...
The University of Sydney

Deepcut News More than 450 University of Sydney (USyd) alumni and current staff have signed a letter calling for a mass meeting to discuss the...
Crowds gather in Tehran on March 9 to celebrate the appointment of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei

ANALYSIS: By Mahjoob Zweiri It has been six months since the United States and Israel launched their coordinated military campaign against Iran on February 28....
A PNG Parliament press gallery monitor shows Opposition Leader James Nomane speaking during debate following the tabling of the Bougainville referendum result

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific After an historic day in which the result of Bougainville's independence referendum was finally tabled in Papua New Guinea's...
You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of...
Forty current and former soldiers of the Israel "Defence" Forces (IDF) will jog across the Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Israel lobby has tried to sabotage comic Bassem Youssef from entering Australia while the government gives a free pass to IDF soldiers suspected...
Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

ANALYSIS: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific We could be about to find out whether a part of the Pacific Islands will become the world's...
Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown

Cook Islands News/RNZ Pacific Mark Brown's governing Cook Islands Party (CIP) is set to return to power for a historic fifth consecutive term after...
New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli on Monday outlined the urgent issues facing the French Pacific territory. In a special address...
Thai Mai Thon members delivered a protest letter to the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok

Khaosod English A Thai protest group submitted a letter outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok this week, urging Israeli tourists and residents in Thailand to...
"The fact that you can sling around libel without evidence in the largest newspapers in Australia gives us a window into how discussion of basic Palestinian rights is shut down"

Waverley Council in Sydney has removed a book strongly critical of Israel from its library shelves for review after a survivor of the Bondi...
The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji

COMMENTARY: By Kalinga Seneviratne In the past year there has been a scramble by the big powers to secure the continuing supply of “rare minerals”...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape (right) and MPs "pray for wisdom"

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's prime minister has urged the nation to appreciate the gravity of the decision on Bougainville that...
RNZ's Morning Report

RNZ Larger audiences across radio and digital platforms have combined with stronger trust in RNZ than other outlets, new data suggest. RNZ's results in the closely...
A bushfire comes close to a residential area in Hohola, Port Moresby

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's Central Province is feeling the brunt of prolonged drought caused by the El Niño weather phase. Central...
A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website

COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Some years ago when I headed the Pacific Media Centre that I founded at Auckland University...
Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun

By Talaia Mika of RNZ Pacific There will be "no more Manu Samoa" if the government does not accept a proposed World Rugby review of...
NSW Justice Desmond Fagan

The Israel lobby wrote itself a dictionary. Governments adopted it, regulators enforced it and police made arrests under it. Then it met a judge...
Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned and highlighted recent attacks and obstructions committed by the Israeli military against Palestinian journalists reporting from...
Paramedics from New South Wales led the rescue

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific A whale-watching boat carrying several New Zealand Anglican Church delegates capsized and sank in Tonga on Saturday. RNZ Pacific understands...