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Chlöe Swarbrick: Housing in NZ a major driver of poverty –...
COMMENTARY: By Chlöe Swarbrick
In 1988, our National Housing Commission declared, “New Zealand does not have the huge, insoluble problems of homelessness and substandard housing...
Sir Kostas ‘touched the lives’ of many Pacific people, says Samoan...
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa’s tribute to Papua New Guinea's businessman Sir Kostas Constantinou was very touching as...
First-ever recipients of ‘outstanding’ Asian music funding unveiled
By Blessen Tom, RNZ News journalist
Fifteen artists have been selected as the inaugural beneficiaries of NZ On Air's New Music Pan-Asian funding.
The initiative, the...
NZ’s housing market drives inequality – why not just tax houses...
ANALYSIS: By Susan St John, University of Auckland
The Green Party made waves recently when it proposed to tax net wealth more than NZ$2 million...
Vanuatu – West Papua – MSG: An epic saga of...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
The name Vanuatu has taken on a sacred significance in Papuan liberation consciousness.
The Free Papua Movement (OPM) elders ignited...
Fiji’s 2023 Budget: Major spending and projects but high debt ‘on...
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist
The Fiji government has announced its "rebuilding our future together" Budget with a spend of FJ$4.3 billion (NZ$3.2 billion)...
PM on China visit: ‘Door wide open for NZ products and...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand's largest ever trade delegation to China has been "knocking on open doors".
Hipkins held a media briefing...
Boroko declared ‘betel nut-free’ as PNG capital Moresby spruces up
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guineans have been challenged to "actively contribute" towards development projects like the Boroko Transformation Project if citizens want to see change...
Congressmen angry that Bikini islanders’ nuclear trust fund may have been...
By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
Following widespread media coverage of the collapse of what was a more than US$70...
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests
By Peter Boyle in Sydney
As Pacific communities protest the Japanese government’s plan to dump more than a million tonnes of radioactive waste water from...
‘We chose death over being raped’ – PNG kidnap survivor speaks...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
A woman who was part of a group kidnapped in Papua...
French nuclear testing fallout in Pacific still affecting NZ men decades...
By Jimmy Ellingham, RNZ News reporter
Fifty years ago 242 men left New Zealand on a mission to Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia.
The crew of...
‘Heroic efforts’ save 7 PNG teachers and families in kidnap attempt
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
In what is described as a "significant relief", seven Papua New Guinea teachers and their families were rescued from...
Papua governor Lukas Enembe’s legal drama and tragedy in Jakarta
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
Last Monday, suspended Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was indicted on gratification, bribery and corruption charges in Indonesia's central Corruption Criminal...
PNG law change empowers police to use lethal force in kidnapping,...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea police will be able to use lethal force to deal with crimes that come under "domestic...
‘We carry the voice of the colonised people’, delegates tell UN
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
France's grip on its overseas territories in the Pacific may be waning, with pro-independence delegates now claiming to have...
Deposed Papua governor Lukas Enembe indicted on $3m bribery charges
RNZ Pacific
The deposed Papua Governor Lukas Enembe has been indicted this week on charges of bribery, allegedly over about US$3 million.
The amount of bribes...
Bougainville minister angry over change in vote on independence
RNZ Pacific
A cabinet minister in Bougainville is furious that the Papua New Guinea government has decided to make a vote on independence an absolute...
Nuclear experts offer to ‘take a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Independent nuclear experts have offered to drink water and eat fish from the Pacific Ocean after Japan dumps its...
ULMWP welcomes Vanuatu leader’s ‘Melanesian way’ vow in Jakarta
Asia Pacific Report
The pro-independence United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has welcomed Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Jotham Napat’s comments on West Papua during...
PNG academic says Port Moresby politicians naïve over US defence deals
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
A Papua New Guinean academic says the new security deals with the United States will militarise his country...
Starved of funds and vision, struggling universities put NZ’s entire research...
ANALYSIS: By Nicola Gaston, University of Auckland
The crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand’s university and wider research sector did not happen overnight. While funding shortfalls...