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
Sunday, June 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
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
      Politics

      The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for…

      Mainstream media priorities in Australia when the UN report on targeted children was released
      Politics

      Australian media ignores UN report on Israeli deliberate killing of children

      “Palestine - 78 years of [Israeli] terror” and "Aroha trumps arms" banners at the Auckland June 20 March for Peace
      Politics

      NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet

      Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh who nationalised his country's oil
      Politics

      This is the story that Trump and the West don’t want…

      Fiji and Israel relations
      Politics

      Jale Moala: Why is the UN credible when Fiji agrees but…

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

Politics

7 days popular
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh who nationalised his country's oil
Politics

This is the story that Trump and the West don’t want you to know

APR editor -
June 26, 2026
Pro-Palestine protesters set off a blood-red flare outside the US Consulate in the peaceful March for Peace demonstration in Auckland
Politics

Paul Hopkinson: Why NZ’s ‘Free Palestine’ party seeks to put Gaza genocide at centre of politics

The executive officer of the Jewish Council of Australia, Sarah Schwartz
Politics

Saige England: Praise for Australia’s Jewish Council but NZ’s council is a hasbara propaganda campaign

People queue to vote in Bougainville’s independence referendum
Politics

PNG’s ruling party supports 15-year transition period for Bougainville

Four days before the Kanaky New Caledonia provincial elections, the pro-independence Kanak Workers and Exploited Workers' Union (USTKE) has announced its voting preferences in all three provinces
Politics

Alcohol sales banned in New Caledonia as provincial election approaches

Politics

Hides landowners sign MOU with PNG government to end blockade

KINJAP Peter S. -
August 19, 2016
0
video
Politics

Barry Coates: The TPPA is dead. What next?

APR editor -
November 24, 2016
0
Police guarding PNG exams
Politics

PNG police put national exams under guard over cheating fears

APR editor -
October 10, 2022
0
BBC faces digital age challenges
Politics

BBC at 100: the future for global news and challenges facing...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 24, 2022
0
FLNKS spokersperson Victor Tutugoro
Politics

FLNKS congratulates Fiji PM Rabuka and his coalition government

APR editor -
January 9, 2023
0
Politics

Tongan Parliament elects Pōhiva as PM for next four years

APR editor -
December 19, 2017
0
Politics

Falling trees and downed power poles hinder Tonga’s Gita relief effort

Kaniva News -
February 14, 2018
0
video
Politics

Philippine protesters stage anti-martial law demos as Duterte trust plummets

APR editor -
September 22, 2018
1
Vanuatu Prime Minister Sato Kilman
Politics

Vanuatu’s Kilman warns against ‘misuse’ of freedom of speech, threats and...

APR editor -
September 7, 2023
0
Politics

Yap legislature rejects ‘kick out’ demand over US journalist

Pacific Media Watch -
May 3, 2019
0
Al Jazeera on Papuavideo
Politics

West Papua’s road to ‘independence’, following the Timorese lead?

David Robie -
August 24, 2019
0
Politics

Australia needs a Media Freedom Act – here’s how it could...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 22, 2019
1
Politics

Environmental movement condemns Indonesia’s ‘betrayal of the people’

APR editor -
October 10, 2020
0
China flag
Politics

China enters 2021 a stronger, more influential power — and Australia...

APR editor -
January 4, 2021
0
Polling station in New Caledonia
Politics

Embargoed French independence for New Caledonia report stirs comments

APR editor -
May 21, 2021
0
Dan McGarry
Politics

Dan McGarry: The truth is our republic

APR editor -
July 20, 2021
0
Press Freedom poster
Politics

Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate

APR editor -
September 14, 2021
0
Families transferred into MIQ often need support
Politics

Doctors rally on phone to help Pasifika families in isolation

APR editor -
September 26, 2021
0
New Zealand journalist Mohamed Hassan presenting the Big Picture podcast
Politics

Netanyahu commits a new ‘bloodbath in Gaza’ to save himself

Pacific Media Watch -
March 19, 2025
0
NZ's Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins
Politics

Northland added to NZ’s alert level 3 tonight over ‘uncooperative’ case

APR editor -
October 8, 2021
0
Covid alert - there were good things too
Politics

Nick Rockel: Memories of the two-year covid safety struggle –...

APR editor -
March 30, 2022
0
Thousands of indigenous Papuans protest in Wamena March 2022
Politics

Pacific Elders call on Indonesia to allow UN visit to Papua...

APR editor -
April 22, 2022
0
1...227228229...280Page 228 of 280

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Politics

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

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

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

In the Eye of the Storm
Analysis

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

Pacific Climate Warriors
Politics

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Load more

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Politics

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
Politics

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
Politics

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

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

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
Politics

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

Load more

BEARING WITNESS

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

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
Politics

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"
Politics

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...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Politics

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
Politics

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

APJS NEWSFILE

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

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
Politics

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

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
Politics

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)
Politics

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (right)
Politics

Bougainville sets out full three-stage proposal for independence by 2030

“Palestine - 78 years of [Israeli] terror” and "Aroha trumps arms" banners at the Auckland June 20 March for Peace
Politics

NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet

King's Representative of the Cook Islands Sir Tom Marsters
Politics

Cook Islands set to head to the polls in six weeks...

Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh who nationalised his country's oil
Politics

This is the story that Trump and the West don’t want...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Politics

The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for...

Mainstream media priorities in Australia when the UN report on targeted children was released
Politics

Australian media ignores UN report on Israeli deliberate killing of children

“Palestine - 78 years of [Israeli] terror” and "Aroha trumps arms" banners at the Auckland June 20 March for Peace
Politics

NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet

Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh who nationalised his country's oil
Politics

This is the story that Trump and the West don’t want...

Load more

MOST COMMENTS

Politics

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

Jacinda Ardern
Politics

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
Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Nouméa voters queue at the Town Hall after polling places opened
Politics

Heavy security deployed as New Caledonia’s crucial elections begin

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif
Politics

Pakistan PM drops a ‘truth bomb’ on US about the Iranian...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Politics

The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for...

A former Kanaky New Caledonia territorial government president, Louis Mapou, heads the breakaway pro-independence UNI list
Politics

New Caledonia’s political parties make final pitch to voters before campaigning...

Editor's Picks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for...

June 27, 2026
Mainstream media priorities in Australia when the UN report on targeted children was released

Australian media ignores UN report on Israeli deliberate killing of children

June 27, 2026
“Palestine - 78 years of [Israeli] terror” and "Aroha trumps arms" banners at the Auckland June 20 March for Peace

NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet

June 27, 2026
Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh who nationalised his country's oil

This is the story that Trump and the West don’t want...

June 26, 2026
Fiji and Israel relations

Jale Moala: Why is the UN credible when Fiji agrees but...

June 26, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .

Bougainville Copper Limited takes stock after Panguna licence setback

June 23, 2026
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif

Pakistan PM drops a ‘truth bomb’ on US about the Iranian...

June 28, 2026
The executive officer of the Jewish Council of Australia, Sarah Schwartz

Saige England: Praise for Australia’s Jewish Council but NZ’s council is...

June 25, 2026
Cook Islands says bulk-buying and stockpiling places pressure on supply for everyone and is not necessary

A timeline of how the fuel crisis impacted on the Pacific

June 25, 2026
“Palestine - 78 years of [Israeli] terror” and "Aroha trumps arms" banners at the Auckland June 20 March for Peace

NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet

June 27, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8357
  • Politics6160
  • Human Rights4809
  • Syndicate4683
  • Global4093
  • New Zealand3625
  • Indigenous3038
  • RNZ Pacific2626
  • Media2336
  • Pacific Media Watch2086
  • Asia Report2073
  • Democracy2010
  • Security1945
  • Military1826
  • Justice1771
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