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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...
‘Full sovereignty and independence’: FLNKS rejects France’s Bougival project
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's pro-independence front, the FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front), has formally confirmed its...
John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel
ANALYSIS: By John Hobbs
Aotearoa New Zealand once earned praise for its “principled” and “independent” foreign policy. Think nuclear-free Pacific, for example.
Yet that reputation doesn’t...
Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday
Asia Pacific Report
It was a bit like the old days -- the heyday of Aotearoa New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement in the 1980s, leading up...
Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon
By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist in Parliament
New Zealand's Prime Minister says the war in Gaza is "utterly appalling" and Israeil Prime Minister...
Israel deliberately obstructing aid, says former PM Helen Clark
By Niva Chittock, RNZ News WorldWatch presenter/producer
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says she has witnessed Israel deliberately obstructing life-saving humanitarian aid into...
Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick barred from NZ Parliament for rest of...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor
New Zealand Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has been ejected from Parliament's debating chamber and told to...
NZ can’t talk about homelessness without tackling poverty, says advocate
RNZ Pacific Waves
In Aotearoa, a Pacific advocate for youth homelessness says the country must address poverty and systemic inequities to fix the housing affordability...