CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • Another four years of far-right rule would pose an immediate threat to Palestinian communities and their rights inside Israel
      Opinion

      Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any…

      PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi with her 95-year-old grandfather in Hebron
      Asia Report

      PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian…

      Israel has been added to the Pacific Islands Forum list as a sectoral partner
      Culture

      ‘Strengthening ties’ or ‘shameful’? – why Israel’s new Pacific status is…

      New Zealand electon voting papers being printed
      Democracy

      New Zealand election: Where political parties stand on Pasifika issues

      Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka
      Opinion

      Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the…

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Home Opinion

Opinion

Latest
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Another four years of far-right rule would pose an immediate threat to Palestinian communities and their rights inside Israel
Opinion

Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any change

APR editor -
October 27, 2026
Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka
Opinion

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the ‘voice of the Pacific’

I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide
Opinion

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts of this cruel world who won’t call a genocide a genocide. Vote them...

“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.
Opinion

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy
Opinion

The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and the destruction of wāhine Māori candidates

Gaza family tents as far as they eye can see
Opinion

NZ’s foreign policy obligation to confront Israel’s Gaza genocide

APR editor -
October 22, 2026
0
A still from the feature films De Gaulle
Opinion

De Gaulle: Résistance and the subjective history of anti-Nazi struggle during...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 18, 2026
0
Badly beaten photographer Heidi Levine in hospital
Opinion

Masked settler assault on Washington Post photographer a snapshot of Israel’s...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 18, 2026
0
"The intifada is global now"
Opinion

Eight ways to spot toxic hasbara trolls and being a keyboard...

APR editor -
October 17, 2026
0
Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate
Opinion

Rawiri shines at Kingmaker debate as Māori voters set to rock...

APR editor -
October 15, 2026
0
A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide
Opinion

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

APR editor -
October 15, 2026
0
The Election Scorecard on the Palestine issu
Opinion

Vote progressive parties – if you seek justice for Palestine

APR editor -
October 15, 2026
0
No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel
Opinion

Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

APR editor -
October 14, 2026
0
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay
Opinion

Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay praised, pilloried, ignored by Australia

APR editor -
October 13, 2026
0
The Global March for Palestine in Auckland
Opinion

What is happening to Palestine is the tip of the spear...

APR editor -
October 12, 2026
0
Writer Nick Bollinger speaking at the Roger Fowler whānau's book launch
Opinion

A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival...

APR editor -
October 11, 2026
0
1News coverage on New Zealand public broadcaster television
Opinion

Maher Nazzal: Shame on New Zealand’s mainstream news media

Pacific Media Watch -
October 11, 2026
0
The Reichstag Fire 1933
Opinion

Donald Trump – in search of a 1933 ‘Reichstag Fire’ moment...

APR editor -
October 9, 2026
0
Local Fiji journalists conduct an interview at the Pacific Peace and Security Dialogue in Suva
Opinion

Fiji’s Online Safety Act – why it poses risks for journalism

Shailendra Singh -
October 9, 2026
0
The shunning of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Opinion

Jonathan Cook: The West wants Netanyahu gone – so Palestinians can...

APR editor -
October 9, 2026
0
ABC Media Watch
Opinion

‘Flying High Dubai’ – Michael West Media responds to ABC Media...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 7, 2026
0
Fiji Justice Minister Siromi Turaga
Opinion

Jale Moala: Words matter in politics, especially at a time like...

APR editor -
October 6, 2026
0
The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women
Opinion

‘The school that became a grave’ – Jeremy Scahill on US...

APR editor -
October 3, 2026
0
A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler
Opinion

From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of...

APR editor -
September 29, 2026
0
Investigative journalist Nicky Hager
Opinion

Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

Pacific Media Watch -
September 27, 2026
0
Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian
Opinion

Pezeshkian speaks from the heart, but with legal, moral and strategic...

APR editor -
September 24, 2026
0
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka talks to journalists at Savusavu
Opinion

In the wake of MIDA, Fiji’s news industry has turned full...

Pacific Media Watch -
September 23, 2026
0
Load more

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm
Opinion

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Load more

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate
Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

Load more

BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
Opinion

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Opinion

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Opinion

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
Opinion

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
Opinion

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

As a second-tier PIF partner, Israel will support Pacific development priorities in areas such as water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation
Decolonisation

‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s...

Fiji Deputy PM Viliame Gavoka
Culture

Israel’s relationship with Pacific is ‘biblical, ageless, real’, says Fiji deputy...

Samoan Prime Minister La'auli and New Zealand's Christopher Luxon in Apia
Elections

‘I said no’ – Samoan PM told Luxon treaty refresh must...

PIF Secretary General Baron Divavesi Waqa welcomed Israel’s Ambassador to Fiji and Pacific Island Countries, Maya Yaron, and Head of MASHAV, Ambassador Eynat Shlein,
Analysis

Israel votes against decolonisation for Pacific at UN – then says...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Another four years of far-right rule would pose an immediate threat to Palestinian communities and their rights inside Israel
Opinion

Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any...

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi with her 95-year-old grandfather in Hebron
Asia Report

PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian...

Israel has been added to the Pacific Islands Forum list as a sectoral partner
Culture

‘Strengthening ties’ or ‘shameful’? – why Israel’s new Pacific status is...

New Zealand electon voting papers being printed
Democracy

New Zealand election: Where political parties stand on Pasifika issues

Load more

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern
Opinion

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva
Opinion

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Another four years of far-right rule would pose an immediate threat to Palestinian communities and their rights inside Israel
Opinion

Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any...

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi with her 95-year-old grandfather in Hebron
Asia Report

PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian...

New Zealand electon voting papers being printed
Democracy

New Zealand election: Where political parties stand on Pasifika issues

Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka
Opinion

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...

Editor's Picks

Another four years of far-right rule would pose an immediate threat to Palestinian communities and their rights inside Israel

Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any...

October 27, 2026
PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi with her 95-year-old grandfather in Hebron

PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian...

October 27, 2026
Israel has been added to the Pacific Islands Forum list as a sectoral partner

‘Strengthening ties’ or ‘shameful’? – why Israel’s new Pacific status is...

October 27, 2026
New Zealand electon voting papers being printed

New Zealand election: Where political parties stand on Pasifika issues

October 27, 2026
Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...

October 27, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi with her 95-year-old grandfather in Hebron

PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian...

October 27, 2026
Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

October 25, 2026
Fiji Deputy PM Viliame Gavoka

Israel’s relationship with Pacific is ‘biblical, ageless, real’, says Fiji deputy...

October 22, 2026
Another four years of far-right rule would pose an immediate threat to Palestinian communities and their rights inside Israel

Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any...

October 27, 2026
The French and Kanak flags flying high

New Caledonia pro-independence leaders boycott EU critical minerals deal

October 23, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8695
  • Politics6527
  • Human Rights5123
  • Syndicate5060
  • Global4452
  • New Zealand3815
  • Indigenous3319
  • RNZ Pacific2776
  • Media2487
  • Pacific Media Watch2357
  • Asia Report2282
  • Democracy2261
  • Security2072
  • Military2029
  • Justice2012
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz