Yearly Archives: 2026

COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell When Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, was assassinated in the opening stages of the US-Israeli war against Iran, I...

RNZ Pacific High-ranking Fiji government ministers have formally approved plans for the establishment of resident embassies for Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in...

The Labor government has told the Senate that Australian charities don’t have to comply with international law, nor will they be compelled. Michael West...

SPECIAL REPORT: Reporters Without Borders Since the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations with China in 2019, the Pacific country has become a strategic arena for...

By Joshua Carroll A global coalition of activists is preparing to launch the largest ever flotilla of aid ships aimed at breaking Israel’s illegal blockade...

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The Solomon Islands Prime Minister is refusing to convene Parliament next week amid a takeover bid by government...

ANALYSIS: By Kevork Almassian When the Strait of Hormuz closes, you don’t need to be a military analyst to understand what just happened. You only...

Greenpeace Aotearoa Thousands of people have signed a petition demanding New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon stand up and condemn the illegal attacks on Iran...

COMMENTARY: By Niamh O'Flynn To most of us in Aotearoa, the current illegal war in Iran feels distant. We see it in our news feeds,...

INTERVIEW: C.J. Polychroniou and Idan Landau Israel’s war on Iran is a direct result of a political culture that depends for survival upon a permanent...

Pacific Media Watch Western legacy media is failing to tell the truth on the US-Israeli war on Iran, says a leading US academic and analyst. "Mass...

Pacific Media Watch The United Nations in Papua New Guinea has met the leadership of the Media Council of PNG to advance collaboration in support...

COMMENTARY: By Saige England Every week, health prevailing, I march with our Palestinian friends and their supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my country is...

Pacific Media Watch As the US and Israel battle to control the narrative of their war against Iran, their messaging gets harder to defend, reports...

Democracy Now! Democracy Now! speaks with Iranian Israeli political activist Orly Noy, editor of the Hebrew-language news site Local Call, about her recent article, “Longing...

RNZ Pacific Pacific Island governments are urging their citizens not to panic about the supply of fuels amid the conflict in the Middle East between...

The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an...

Asia Pacific Report The United States and Fiji have filed separate declarations of intervention in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu's only daily newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, is facing a ban on covering future football league matches after...

COMMENTARY: By Kellie Tranter The US-Israeli attack on Iran has unequivocally demonstrated to the world -- apart, it seems, from Australia's government -- that being...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state. We are now in the...

By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific reporter Pacific broadcasters say the future of storytelling will depend on how well traditional media adapts to the fast moving...