Yearly Archives: 2026

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon faced sustained heckling and had to fend off questions about a revived...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Jason Brown Fast-paced electronic music pumps in the background as a rapid montage of moving images flash across the screen. In a 20...

Sweeping cuts by one of most iconic investigative newspapers in the United States, The Washington Post, now owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, apply...

By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist As Waitangi Day commemorations continue drawing people from across Aotearoa and around the world to the Bay of...

Pacific Media Watch A new Pacific Media research publication and outlet for academics and community advocates has now been added to the Informit database for...

Asia Pacific Report A two-day West Papua Solidarity Forum and mini film festival is being held in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau next month featuring West Papuan...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor A court ruling in favour of Fiji's dismissed anti-corruption chief has "embarrassed" Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, a New Zealand-based...

Asia Pacific Report Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi, a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawai'ian) initiative for self-determination and self-governance formed in 1987, has sent a 17-member Indigenous delegation...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor The New Zealand government says it hopes an electrification aid project that was halted in Papua New Guinea...

By Mohamed Hassan The Israel-Palestine director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has resigned in protest, saying the organisation’s new chief has blocked a report accusing...

COMMENTARY: By Vincent Wijeysingha Will maximising investment returns override ethics? That is the question the tertiary sector posed to UniSaver, the academic equivalent of KiwiSaver,...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at the arrests of two American journalists for covering a protest at the Cities Church ...

ANALYSIS: By Andrew Brown Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, is due to arrive in Australia next Sunday. Why is a foreign Head of State asked to...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor A New Zealand aid project in Papua New Guinea has been halted due to security concerns, and appears...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's government has defended the use of force to evict residents of an informal settlement in the capital Port Moresby. Police used...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto On June 3 last year, the Christchurch Press reported on an alleged assault in Christchurch on an IDF soldier on holiday...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Political leaders in a Papua New Guinea province plagued by gun violence are making a collective stand to...

COMMENTARY: By John Menadue Western leaders defend the rules-based international order when it suits them, but remain largely silent as those same rules are breached...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand protesters in Tamaki Makaurau today heralded a global demand for the freedom of thousands of Palestinians who have been unlawfully...

RNZ News Hundreds of people gathered at two separate New Zealand protests in Auckland today, prompting police cordons and some road closures. Destiny Church-affiliated Freedom and...

By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal / RNZ Pacific correspondent The death earlier this month of a 26-year veteran of the US Army from...

COMMENTARY: By Jonathan Cook Here is another example of utterly irresponsible journalism from the BBC on News at Ten. Diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley starts the Thursday...