Monthly Archives: September 2026

Labour's Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific The Labour Party is promising visa-free travel to Aotearoa New Zealand for Pacific Islanders. Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni said Pacific...
Zionist quartet

The Zionist Federation of Australia’s legal assault on Israel critic and journalist Mary Kostakidis was financed by the Israeli war machine via the World...
Fiji Health Minister Dr Atonio Lalabalavu's HIV warning

RNZ Pacific reporters Fiji's Health Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu has formally declared a national HIV emergency in the country. In a pre-recorded video press statement...
A pro-Palestine protest against Israeli genocide in Gaza and the illegal settlements in the West Bank in Auckland

ANALYSIS: By Karen Scott The New Zealand government has so far declined to join the United Kingdom and announce sanctions on goods produced in illegal...
President Trump boasts of having the greatest military in the world

Because former president Joe Biden backed Israel's genocidal Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump avoids accurately accusing Biden of aiding and abetting genocide. Tyrant Trump has...
Pacific locations could host intelligence and combat-support units

By Mark Rabago of RNZ Pacific A US foreign policy think tank is proposing a major shift in America's military strategy in Asia that would...
New Zealand's news media have been warned

KNIGHTLY VIEWS: By Gavin Ellis Two months out from New Zealand's general election, and we have yet to see new policy from any of the...
The Panguna mine arson attack

By Carmel N. Pilotti, Michael E. Miller and Koroi Hawkins At least two people were shot and several arrested in the Papua New Guinea island...
Palestinian media political prisoners

By Layan Bsharat and Mohammad Sio Israel is holding 37 Palestinian journalists in its prisons, including 19 under administrative detention without charge or trial, says...
About 12,000 people are now believed to be living with HIV in Fiji

RNZ Checkpoint A "horrendously high" number of babies in Fiji are dying due to HIV related complications, says a health researcher, as the prevalence of...
Cartoon: © 2026 Malcolm Evans

Asia Pacific Report UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stated in an interview with The Guardian last week that the 2024 International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
Auckland's Waitematā Station on Monday morning

By Matthew Theunissen and Lucy Xia of RNZ An estimated 72,500 passengers were counted on trains across the Auckland Transport network by 5pm today --...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson . . . “Te reo Māori is a taonga."

Te Ao Māori News Te Wiki o te Reo Māori has begun with an election promise from the Green Party to invest an additional $200...
The Vanuatu ferry MV Matui

RNZ Pacific reporters An Australian pilot who helped locate survivors after a ferry disaster in Vanuatu says: "it is a miracle anyone survived". After the ferry...
The Panguna mine arson attack

RNZ Pacific reporters Reports from Bougainville say heavy machinery and vehicles belonging to a foreign mining company were destroyed in an arson attack at the...
A banner at today's rally in Auckland's Te Komititanga Square

Asia Pacific Report A pioneer of Palestine protest in Aotearoa New Zealand today warned against the IDF slaughter “obscenity” becoming accepted as normal in the...
Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis

Power expected fear, expense and exhaustion to silence one journalist. Mary Kostakidis stood her ground, and an important piece of the wall gave way....
Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao

By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific The 9/11 attacks on the United States claimed thousands of lives, stunned the world, and triggered responses that continue...
Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025

The Zionist Federation of Australia has withdrawn its case of "racial hatred" against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who called it a victory for free...
NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Foreign Minister Winston Peters says he was under no obligation to consult with Cabinet before making an offer to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Israeli press has published three significant revelations about the Gaza holocaust, reporting (1) that Benjamin Netanyahu concealed advanced knowledge of...
"Affirmed, noted, endorsed" at the 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders summit media conference in Koror

ANALYSIS: By Tess Newton Cain and Stefan Armbruster With a Chinese ballistic missile test in July as prelude, the familiar China-Taiwan tensions and preparations for...