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
Friday, July 17, 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
    • An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise
      Politics

      Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

      Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free
      Politics

      The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its…

      Disputed Hunter Island
      Politics

      Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

      Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025
      Politics

      NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA…

      The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral
      Politics

      How Tehran turned Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral into a media event

  • 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
You could always count on Lindsey Graham to be the first and loudest voice arguing in favour of more death
Politics

Caitlin Johnstone: Well, at least Lindsey Graham is dead

APR editor -
July 13, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London
Politics

The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he hasn’t got a clue

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace
Politics

Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war to China

Police presence at Australian Special Envoy Jillian Segal's presentation to the Bondi Royal Commission into Antisemitism hearing last week
Politics

Antisemitism envoy Segal slams ABC, SBS ‘Israel bias’, wants to vet media

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group
Politics

MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for West Papua

How the PNG Post-Courier today reported the news of President Macron's impending visit
Politics

French President Macron to make historic visit to PNG, Vanuatu

APR editor -
July 18, 2023
0
Politics

‘We haven’t known a world without climate change’ – school strikers

APR editor -
March 15, 2019
0
Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Politics

Te Pāti Māori calls for NZ to insist on Israel-Gaza ceasefire,...

APR editor -
October 20, 2023
0
Politics

Xanana Gusmão opposes extending state of emergency in Timor-Leste

APR editor -
April 30, 2020
0
Politics

PM Ardern changes NZ election to October 17 over covid outbreak

APR editor -
August 17, 2020
0
Utu Workers
Politics

May Day – time to reverse decades of relentless attacks on...

APR editor -
May 2, 2021
0
Rappler's Maria Ressa 150621
Politics

Lawyer Clooney welcomes dismissal of second libel suit against Maria Ressa

Pacific Media Watch -
June 15, 2021
0
Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Politics

Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’

APR editor -
September 8, 2021
0
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters and his delegation in Hawai'i
Politics

Peters emphasises growing importance of NZ’s Pacific ties with the United...

APR editor -
April 15, 2025
0
Tonga Health CEO Siale ‘Akau’ola
Politics

Tonga’s first covid case tests ‘weak positive’ again after negative

APR editor -
November 5, 2021
0
New Zealand's ICU preparedness questioned
Politics

Warning bells from NZ health experts, National over coping with covid...

APR editor -
November 19, 2021
0
Professor Biman Prasad
Politics

Prasad warns Fiji government will end 2021 as ‘laughing stock’ over...

APR editor -
January 1, 2022
0
Healthcare Trust chief executive Lemalu Silao Vaisola
Politics

Pacific health provider faces covid-19 fatigue within community

APR editor -
January 31, 2022
0
Politics

UPNG students clash with Uniforce officers, cars torched and library stoned

KINJAP Peter S. -
June 23, 2016
1
Politics

West Papuan solidarity events planned to mark Morning Star flag day

APR editor -
November 29, 2016
1
Politics

Juffa demands Labour boss step down over work permit allegations

APR editor -
February 9, 2017
0
Politics

Peter S. Kinjap: PNG needs maturity in political debates and on...

KINJAP Peter S. -
May 16, 2017
0
video
Politics

Transparency sets up free hot line to report corruption during PNG...

Pacific Media Watch -
June 27, 2017
1
Incoming Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka on TVNZ News
Politics

A knife-edge election in Fiji sees power shift – and a...

APR editor -
December 23, 2022
0
The Tino Rangatiratanga flag
Politics

Ardern won’t back down on Māori advance if co-governance made key...

APR editor -
January 11, 2023
0
Politics

Fiji climate lead challenged Western consultants’ influence before losing job

Pacific Media Watch -
March 9, 2018
0
End of an era . . . a reader looks at the last online edition of Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes
Politics

New Caledonia’s lone daily newspaper ceases publication after 52 years

Pacific Media Watch -
March 20, 2023
0
1...227228229...283Page 228 of 283

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

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025
Politics

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

The United States bombed Iran over a toll
Politics

Lim Tean: The Hormuz ‘guardian’ turns pirate – 20% for tribute

Ex-coup convict George Speight
Politics

Former coup leader re-enters Fiji political debate with challenge to immunity...

Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Dr Sailele Malielegaoi
Politics

Samoa opposition leader says treason inquiry delayed over lack of evidence

EDITOR'S PICKS

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise
Politics

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free
Politics

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

Disputed Hunter Island
Politics

Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025
Politics

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

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

Fiji's Labour Party leader and a former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry
Politics

‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged...

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise
Politics

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free
Politics

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

Disputed Hunter Island
Politics

Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

Editor's Picks

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

July 16, 2026
Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

July 15, 2026
Disputed Hunter Island

Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

July 15, 2026
Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

July 15, 2026
The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral

How Tehran turned Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral into a media event

July 15, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

July 16, 2026
Protesters from Americans Abroad Against the War (AAAW) taking part in a recent Auckland march against the US war on Iran

‘Profound strategic misjudgment’ – why Iran may have upper hand in...

July 13, 2026
French-Ethiopian student Sarah Cotte

Retrial for UK student charged with ‘terrorism’ over speech condemning genocide

July 11, 2026
Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

July 11, 2026
New Zealand pro-Palestine protesters stage a rally in Te Komititanga Square

The Gulf tollbooth that demands real recognition – Iran closes the...

July 12, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8404
  • Politics6216
  • Human Rights4852
  • Syndicate4737
  • Global4151
  • New Zealand3657
  • Indigenous3075
  • RNZ Pacific2653
  • Media2353
  • Pacific Media Watch2123
  • Asia Report2111
  • Democracy2047
  • Security1976
  • Military1869
  • Justice1806
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