Yearly Archives: 2026

By Kim Wingerei and Michael West in Sydney Adelaide Writers' Week, a core part of South Australia’s premier cultural event, the Adelaide Festival, has finally...

The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be...

Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of...

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Leaders in the Northern Marianas have warned that a deepening economic crisis in the...

RNZ Pacific A proposal by Sāmoa's Prime Minister to ban all non-Christian religions from the country is being met with mixed reactions. The Samoa Observer reported...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week announced a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Attack and antisemitism. Andrew Brown weighs the evidence on...

RNZ Pacific Sāmoa is set to become the third Pacific nation to have an embassy in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt told a gathering of...

By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist A former head of the United Nations Development Programme is concerned that US President Donald Trump may set a...

The Australian government remains silent on Israel banning 37 international aid organisations in Gaza, despite warnings from humanitarian groups. Stephanie Tran reports. By Stephanie Tran...

By Pokere Paewai, RNZ Māori issues reporter As 2025 ticked over into 2026, New Zealand's popular Parakai Springs near Helensville officially became Kaipātiki Hot Springs,...

ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell There is much to understand from the dramatic kidnapping -- abduction is perhaps a better word -- of Venezuelan President Nicolás...

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure from the Murdoch News Corp's relentless media campaign and advocacy...

RNZ News Three people, including former Wellington mayoral hopeful Graham Bloxham, have been arrested at a Venezuela solidarity protest in New Zealand's capital. Around 100 people...

By Doddy Morris in Port Vila The Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) has confirmed that the prime suspect in a Port Vila armed robbery is a...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent A Papua New Guinea police operation in Tsak Valley, Enga Province, in the early hours of...

The path to Caracas -- and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed-- was paved in Gaza,...

RNZ News New Zealand former Invercargill and Waitematā mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt died today. He was 78. Sir Tim, who was awarded the Knight Companion of...

COMMENTARY: By Saige England What happened at New Zealand human rights campaigner John Minto's home? Let me tell you. Let me tell you that he wrote...

By Jake Johnson US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela’s interim leadership will turn over to the United States as many as 50 million...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist The Cook Islands Maritime Authority says a US-sanctioned oil tanker is falsely using Cook Islands identifiers to evade capture. The...

ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, New Zealand responded with unusual speed. Sanctions followed. Condemnations were issued. The language was unambiguous. We...

COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn a blind eye to cold-blooded genocide,...