APR editor
‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’
Asia Pacific Report
Protesting New Zealanders donned symbolic masks modelled on a Palestinian artist's handiwork in Auckland's Takutai Square today to condemn Israel's starvation as...
Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Air New Zealand has announced it plans to resume its Auckland-Nouméa flights from November, almost one...
Budget 2025: Pacific Ministry faces major cuts, yet new initiatives aim...
By 'Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News
Funding for New Zealand's Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) is set to be reduced by almost $36 million in...
Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
An Auckland University law academic says Samoa's criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged...
Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
A West Papua independence leader says escalating violence is forcing indigenous Papuans to flee their ancestral lands.
It comes as...
40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against...
A forthcoming new edition of David Robie’s Eyes of Fire honours the ship’s final mission and the resilience of those affected by decades of...
Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t
We have been handed a long and protracted recession with few signs of growth and prosperity. Budget 2025 signals more of the same, writes...
Australia’s Wong condemns ‘abhorrent, outrageous’ Israeli comments over blocked aid
Asia Pacific Report
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has released a statement saying “the Israeli government cannot allow the suffering to continue” after the UN’s...
The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1:...
Al Jazeera
How global power struggles are impacting in local communities, culture and sovereignty in Kanaky, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Samoa.
In episode one,...
New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia and French Polynesia have sent strong delegations this week to the United Nations Pacific...
Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell
Since last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed more than 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade...
NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza...
RNZ News
New Zealand has joined 23 other countries calling out Israel and demanding a full supply of foreign aid be allowed into the territory.
Foreign...
Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose
Reading an NBC News report a couple of days ago about a Trump administration plan to relocate 1 million Gazans...
Health chief ‘conductor of an orchestra who’s never played an instrument’
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell
In February 2025, Dr Diana Sarfati resigned, not unexpectedly, as Director-General of Health after only two years into her five-year term.
As...
NZ joins call for Israel to allow full resumption of aid...
RNZ News
New Zealand has joined 22 other countries and the European Union in calling for Israel to allow a full resumption of aid into...
Speight’s Fiji coup had more to do with power, greed than...
By Vijay Narayan, news editor of Fijivillage News
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the May 19, 2000, coup led by renegade businessman George Speight.
The...
Former Canberra diplomat Ali Kuzak dies on the way to Palestine
Ali Kazak: born Haifa, 1947; died May 17 2025, Thailand
By Helen Musa in Canberra
Former Palestinian diplomat and long-time Canberra identity Ali Kazak died on...
Environmentalists question Henry Puna’s role in deep sea mining firm
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Environmentalists in the Cook Islands have criticised former Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) head Henry Puna for...
Pacific children as young as 6 adopted, made to work as...
By Gill Bonnett, RNZ immigration reporter
This story discusses graphic details of slavery, sexual abuse and violence
Pacific children as young as six are being adopted...
Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region
RNZ Pacific
Australia has launched the world's first UN Police Peacekeeping Training course tailored specifically for the Pacific region.
The five-week programme, hosted by the Australian...
Seven European nations jointly call for urgent action over Israel’s starvation...
Asia Pacific Report
Seven European nations have called on Israel to "immediately reverse" its military operations against Gaza and lift the food and water blockade...
‘Cracks are opening up’ in Western complicity over Gaza genocide, says...
Asia Pacific Report
About 2000 New Zealand protesters marched through the heart of Auckland city today chanting "no justice, no peace" and many other calls...