APR editor
John Minto: Urewera 10 years on – recounting the lessons of...
On the 10th anniversary of the Urewera raids, we should recount the lessons – and we should remember.
Breathless police and media commentary about a...
David Hall: Emissions, not migration, the real climate change issue in...
ANALYSIS: By David Hall of AUT's The Policy Observatory
The problem with climate change – like any wicked problem – is that its story can...
Phillip Miriori: Why Bougainvilleans are having their say – ‘No to...
OPINION: By Phillip Miriori
As many would be aware, we Bougainvilleans have been through a tough history with the disasters that came from the past...
Critics slam Indonesian military for meddling in national politics
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Critics have rebuked the Indonesian Military, or TNI, for meddling in politics, as it celebrated its 72nd anniversary last week, reports...
Meet Green MP Golriz Ghahraman, NZ’s first refugee in Parliament
By Kirsty Johnston of The New Zealand Herald
Most of Golriz Ghahraman's childhood memories are of war.
She remembers howling sirens, sending families scurrying into basements....
West Papua petition causes UN stir, but Papuans say demands still...
Australia's ABC News report on the banned West Papuan petition. Video: Lewis Prai Wellip
By Zely Ariane in Jayapura
A petition claimed to represent the wishes...
Max Lane brings millennial generation closer to works of Pramoedya
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk from Surya Malang, Indonesia
The name Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's foremost writer who was born in 1925 and died in 2006,...
Howling dogs all that’s left in volcano island Ambae’s empty villages
By Dan McGarry on Santo
Only the howling of dogs can be heard now in Ambae’s abandoned villages. The entire population has now been moved...
Josef Benedict: Rohingya crisis is a moment of truth for ASEAN
ANALYSIS: By Josef Benedict
Today, we are watching history repeat itself in Southeast Asia in the worst possible way.
Once again, the Myanmar military has launched...
Ambae volcano ‘more stable’, say Vanuatu’s monitoring scientists
Locals evacuate Ambae island as Manaro Voui volcano threatens to erupt in Vanuatu. – Video: Guardian Wires
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
New observations...
Keep your ‘green pledges’, NZ ecology groups warn key political leaders
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A "supergroup" of New Zealand environmental organisations has sent an open letter to the leaders of four key political parties, warning...
Ambae Manaro volcano’s crater lakes make it a serious threat to...
Smoke billows from Vanuatu’s Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae island. Video: The Guardian
ANALYSIS: By Chris Firth
If you turned on the television this week, you...
Worse West Papua human rights, ‘shrinking space’, says new report
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
West Papua has experienced a "significant aggravation" of the human rights situation in the past two years compared to previous years,...
Vanuatu’s mass exodus from volcano island Ambae under way
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Vanuatu's government is moving the entire population of 11,000 people from Ambae to the neighbouring islands of Pentecost, Maewo,...
‘You’re my hero’ – UST students pay tribute to teachers in...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
In a bid to set a new Guinness world record, 16,729 students from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines,...
Vanuatu orders evacuation of Ambae’s 11,000 people over volcano’s gases
A RNZAF flyover of Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae island. Video: NZDF
By Bob Makin in Port Vila
The Vanuatu government’s Council of Ministers has ordered...
Vanuatu rescuers face tough challenges over Ambae volcano evacuation
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
The Penama Provincial Disaster and Climate Change Committee is facing a number of challenges in its efforts to help...
Terror in Indonesia – the threat posed by returning Islamic State...
By Jewel Topsfield of The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta
Heru Kurnia, an Indonesian who joined Islamic State in Syria, is describing watching children kick...
Vanuatu declares state of emergency over erupting volcano
By Bob Makin in Port Vila
The Vanuatu government’s Council of Ministers has declared a state of emergency on Ambae island, allowing public funds to...
10 reasons why NZ will still get a Labour-NZ First-Green government
OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
Any suggestion - such as by much of the mainstream media - that the Labour Party...
Vanuatu evacuates 8000 villagers on Ambae as volcano erupts
By Bob Makin in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae is erupting and 8000 people are being evacuated on the island.
The Penama provincial...
NZ’s election 2017 winners, losers and the biggest issues
OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
In 2014, New Zealanders shrugged off dirty politics and mass surveillance lies and then voted National...