APR editor
Indonesia’s Pacific manoeuvres – money, military and silencing West Papua
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
On April 24, 2025, Indonesia made a masterful geopolitical move. Jakarta granted Fiji US$6 million in financial aid and offered to...
Philippine advocacy group condemns NZ military pact with Manila, rejects election...
Asia Pacific Report
The Aotearoa Philippines Solidarity national assembly has condemned the National Party-led Coalition government in New Zealand over signing a "deplorable" visiting forces...
Pacific region hopes for ‘climate-conscious’ pope, says PCC leader
By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
The leader of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) has reacted to the election of the new pope.
Pope...
Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace
We’ve visited Ground Zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations, before these locations were designated as...
Pope Leo XIV faces limits on changing the Catholic Church −...
ANALYSIS: By Dennis Doyle, University of Dayton
Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the new leader of the Roman...
Experts split on Australia’s Papua New Guinea military recruitment plan
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Australia's plan to recruit from Papua New Guinea for its Defence Force raises "major ethical concerns", according to the...
NZ Māori Council, PSNA appeal for urgent action over Gaza starvation
Asia Pacific Report
The New Zealand Māori Council and Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa made a high profile appeal to Foreign Minister Winston Peters over Gaza...
New Caledonia’s political talks – no outcome after three days of...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk
After three solid days of talks in retreat mode, New Caledonia's political parties have yet to...
‘Under no illusions’ about France, says author of new Rainbow Warrior...
Pacific Media Watch
The author of the book Eyes of Fire, one of the countless publications on the Rainbow Warrior bombing almost 40 years ago...
Cook Islands environment group calls on govt to condemn Trump’s seabed...
By Losirene Lacanivalu, of the Cook Islands News
A leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group is hoping that the Cook Islands government will speak out...
In its soul-searching, Australia’s rightist coalition should examine its relationship with...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University and Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne
Among the many lessons to be learnt by Australia's defeated Liberal-National coalition...
Trump’s push on deep sea mining leaves Nauru’s commercial ambitions ‘out...
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Nauru's ambition to commercially mine the seabed is likely at risk following President Donald Trump's executive order last...
Human rights group calls for probe into attack on Freedom Flotilla...
Asia Pacific Report
A human rights agency has called for an investigation into the drone attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid ship Conscience with...
Australia ‘Islamic Caliphate’? Dark money and the 11th hour election propaganda...
An 11th-hour blitzkrieg for the Australian election 2025 tomorrow claims the Greens are enabling extremists who “will do anything in their power to establish...
New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case...
Asia Pacific Report
The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the...
Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals...
Teals and Greens are under political attack from a new pro-fossil fuel, pro-Israel astroturfing group, adding to the onslaught by far-right lobbyists Advance Australia...
NZ doctors defend nationwide strike action over recruitment
By Ruth Hill, RNZ News reporter
Striking senior New Zealand doctors have hit back at the Health Minister's attack on their union for "forcing" patients...
Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis
Asia Pacific Report
Thousands of senior hospital doctors and specialists walked off the job today for an unprecedented 24-hour strike in protest over stalled contract...
On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s...
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is...
Greenpeace slams deep sea mining bid as ‘rogue’ disregard for global...
By Reza Azam
Greenpeace has condemned an announcement by The Metals Company to submit the first application to commercially mine the seabed.
"The first application to...
50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to...
Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...
Māori leaders urge UN to act stronger on NZ’s ‘regressive’ policies
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson in New York
Claire Charters, an expert in indigenous rights in international and constitutional law, has told the United Nations the...





























































