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NZ’s Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s West Bank settlement plan
RNZ News
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is condemning Israel's E1 settlement plan for the occupied West Bank, despite New Zealand not signing a joint statement...
200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends...
By Pip Hinman and Alex Bainbridge of Green Left
More than 200,000 people took the streets across Australia on Saturday in a national day of...
FLNKS snubs Nouméa constitutional reform talks for New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A newly established "drafting committee" held its inaugural meeting in Nouméa this week, aiming to translate...
Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla
Two New Zealand Palestinians, Rana Hamida and Youssef Sammour, left Auckland today to join the massive new Global Sumud Flotilla determined to break Israel's...
Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames
So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant...
NZ police chief acknowledges impact of criminal deportees on Pacific
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand's police commissioner says he understands the potential impact the country's criminal deportees have on smaller Pacific Island nations.
Commissioner Richard Chambers' comments...
PSNA condemns NZ ‘distraction’ over sanctions needed against Israel
Asia Pacific Report
The advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned New Zealand's "deliberate distraction" over sanctions against Israel and has vowed...
NZ is trailing its allies over Palestinian statehood – but there’s...
ANALYSIS: By Treasa Dunworth, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
It’s now more than a week since Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced his government had...
French Overseas Minister in New Caledonia in bid to ‘save’ Bougival...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls is once again in New Caledonia for a four-day visit...
Saige England: Why I have spent a decade proudly standing with...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
I unequivocally support Irish author Sally Rooney with all my heart and soul. The author risks imprisonment for donating funds from...
Rewarding knowingly illegal conduct – some might say, Israeli terrorism
Why the recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia is an important development. Meanwhile, New Zealand still dithers. This article unpacks the hypocrisy...
Palau president calls exclusion of PIF partners a ‘missed opportunity’
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr says it is "a missed opportunity" not to include partners at next mont's Pacific...
Eugene Doyle: Saving Palestine’s Marwan Barghouti is our duty
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Seeing video evidence this week of the physical and psychological mistreatment of the great Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti sickened me. I...
Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must...
REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls
Author David Robie left his cabin on the Rainbow Warrior three days before it was blown up by the Directorate General...
Call for legal shield for Fiji National Provident Fund in review...
By Elena Vucukula in Suva
The main problem in for Fiji retirement is that there is no law to protect the Fiji National Provident Fund,...
New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
A Pacific analyst and commentator says it is unlikely that Vanuatu will agree to any exclusive rights in the...
Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
A New Zealand policeman pushed over an elderly man who was doing nothing but waving a Palestinian flag at a solidarity...
Luxon ‘grow a spine’ chants as big rallies call for NZ...
Asia Pacific Report
"Grow a spine for Palestine!" was a frequent theme among about 5000 people protesting in the heart of New Zealand's largest city...
Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy...
ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell
The word “Gaza” is taking on similar connotations to what the word “Auschwitz” meant to a previous generation. It signifies a...
‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Elizabeth Tako Palin is one of five women contesting the Bougainville North women's reserved seat next month.
It was...
‘We need to be involved’: Pasifika candidates running in Auckland local...
By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist
Former Pacific candidates and new faces are putting their names forward for this year's Auckland local government election in...
The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’...
Netanyahu’s mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under the West’s cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution.
ANALYSIS: By...
