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Hīkoi day four: Setting off from Huntly on way to Wellington...
RNZ News
Thousands of people are continuing their North Island hīkoi as the legislation they are protesting against, the Treaty Principles Bill, gets its first...
West Papuan leader makes ‘raise our banned flag’ plea over new...
Asia Pacific Report
An exiled West Papuan leader has called on supporters globally to show their support by raising the Morning Star flag -- banned...
Senior NZ lawyers call for Treaty Principles Bill to be abandoned
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ political reporter
Members of the King's Counsel, some of New Zealand's most senior legal minds, say the controversial Treaty Principles Bill...
COP29: Does NZ have the credibility to lead carbon trading talks?
By Eloise Gibson, RNZ climate change correspondent
New Zealand's Climate Change Minister Simon Watts is going to the global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan next...
Hīkoi day three: Thousands of protesters walk across Auckland Harbour Bridge
RNZ News
Thousands of supporters of Aotearoa New Zealand's hīkoi mō te Tiriti -- a march traversing the length of Aotearoa in protest against the...
NZ abuse in care apology called PR stunt,’tokenistic’ by some survivors
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter
Survivors of abuse in care arrived at Parliament today to hear the formal apology from the state which...
Hīkoi mō te Tiriti sets off from Whangārei on day two
RNZ News
Emotions are running high as the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti has been welcomed to Laurie Hill Park in Whangārei by mana whenua.
Thousands have...
Trump win, 1.5C warming breach weigh on UN climate ‘finance COP’
By Sera Sefeti of BenarNews
Pacific delegates fear the implications of a Trump presidency and breach of the 1.5 degree Celsius warming target will overshadow...
Hīkoi mō te Tiriti day one: ‘Lets make this hīkoi build...
RNZ News
From the misty peaks of Cape Reinga to the rain-soaked streets of Kawakawa, Aotearoa New Zealand's national hīkoi mō Te Tiriti rolled through...
Meeting with Seymour ‘pointless’, say protest hīkoi organisers
RNZ News
Thousands of people have joined the national hīkoi opposing the Treaty Principles Bill as it progresses south, with supporters lining State Highway 10...
NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill protest hīkoi begins in Far North
RNZ News
A national hīkoi across Aotearoa New Zealand began today in the small Far North town of Te Kāo.
Supporters gathered at Pōtahi Marae, before...
Qatar ‘stalls’ Gaza mediation efforts – says it will not be...
Asia Pacific Report
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has rejected media reports that it has pulled out of mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas but added that...
COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed
COMMENTARY: By Reverend James Bhagwan
"We will not sign our death certificate. We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on...
US elections featuring ‘racism, sexism’ pose challenges for Global South
COMMENTARY: By Patrick Gathara
Anger and fear have greeted the return to power of former US strongman Donald Trump, a corrupt far-white extremist coup plotter...
Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reid
The Enemy Within, by Maire Leadbeater is many things. It is:
• A family history
• A social history
• A history of the...
Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: As we continue to look...
Eugene Doyle: Axis of Genocide vs Axis of Resistance. Whose side...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Despite being appalled at my government, I winced as a New Zealander to hear my country described as part of the...
Convicted former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama released from prison
RNZ Pacific
Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been released from prison, only six months into his 12 months sentence, the Fiji Corrections Service...
Paul Buchanan: All in all, Trump’s election is a calamity in...
COMMENTARY: By Paul G Buchanan
Surveying the wreckage of the US elections, here are some observations that have emerged:
Campaigns based on hope do not always...
Pacific nation leaders look forward to strengthened US relations with Trump
RNZ Pacific
The Tongan and Fijian prime ministers are among the first Pacific Island leaders to congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump, 78, returned to the...
Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and...
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Over 30 years the French government tested 193 nuclear weapons in Māohi Nui and today...
US votes as Gaza burns – Trump ‘declares victory’ in tight...
Asia Pacific Report
As Americans voted for their next president, Israel has continued its attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Republican presidential...