Yearly Archives: 2026

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024

Will a global human rights declaration help pave the way for Australian Zomi Frankcom’s Israeli killers to be held accountable for her death? Human...
Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand signed an international letter criticising Israel which foreshadows sanctions but a pro-Palestine advocacy group has rapped the government over its...
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States is set to announce a fuel security deal worth US$60 million for the...
President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

By L.N. Reklai in Koror, Palau Pacific Islands Forum leaders are being urged to strengthen regional unity and ensure the Forum remains firmly Pacific-led as...
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott

Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party was presented at a solidarity rally at the weekend as the new political group contesting the New Zealand...
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States and New Zealand will co-fund a new "lifeline" port with the Cook Islands...
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters in Palau for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has blasted Solomon Islands cabinet ministers who moved against their leader on the...
West Papuan advocate Paula Makabory

Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader living in Australia is calling on Oceania leaders at the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Palau this...
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale's Government for Reform, Empowerment, Accountability and Transformation (GREAT) coalition appears headed for a major test after...
"Alii - welcome to Palau"

By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau With the final list of leaders attending the 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in...
Vanuatu Special Envoy on Decolonisation and Maritime Boundaries Delimitation Joe Natuman

By Ezra Toara in Port Vila The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) should revisit a proposal for an independent regional delegation to visit West Papua and...
All smiles for Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale made an emergency trip back to Honiara on Sunday morning from Palau after a motion of...
The Green Party’s Ricardo Menéndez March (left) and Labour's Phil Twyford

Asia Pacific Report A national pro-Palestine advocacy group has criticised the "absence of signature" by the New Zealand government on a 22-member joint statement condemning...
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting officially kicks off tonight in Koror, Palau. The runway leading...
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 Palestine policies and called on voters to oust it and elect...
"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...