War in Ukraine: RSF warns over journalists risking their lives
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Several media crews have already come under fire and four reporters have sustained gunshot injuries in Ukraine since the start of...
Auckland hospitals put most care on hold, incentives fail to fix...
RNZ News
An Auckland nurse says a lucrative incentive payment has not fixed the city's dire hospital staffing shortage in Aotearoa New Zealand's current covid-19...
How China is manipulating the information war in the Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Sue Ahearn
As China seeks greater influence in the South Pacific, its manipulation of local news outlets is having a serious impact on...
West Papuan students fight to keep scholarships to study in Aotearoa
By Marena Mane of Māori Television
Indigenous students from West Papua studying at universities across Aotearoa are defying an order from the Indonesian government to...
Gavin Ellis: Fundamental flaws in public media plans call for big...
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views
The proposal for a new entity to replace Television New Zealand and RNZ has two fundamental flaws that...
PNG police arms, ammunition not yet ready for this year’s elections
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean police have made a startling revelation that firearms for the National Elections security operations in June...
NZ reports 24 more covid deaths, 19,542 new cases – minister...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has reported 19,542 new cases of covid-19 in the community and 24 more deaths today.
The ministry said eight...
From ‘pretty communist’ to ‘Jabcinda’ – what’s behind the vitriol directed...
ANALYSIS: By Suze Wilson, Massey University
With recent polling showing National edging ahead of Labour for the first time in two years, Jacinda Ardern’s previously...
NZ terror attacks anniversary: A letter to my son – ‘Never...
OPEN LETTER: By Mahvash Ikram
Three years on from the Christchurch terror attacks on 15 March 2019, Mahvash Ikram writes an open letter to her...
Covid-19 cases in Auckland on way down, ‘full on outbreak’ in...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says it is clear that the number of cases in Auckland is on the way...
Omicron outbreak: Pacific expert brands vaccine booster as essential
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
The covid-19 vaccine booster needs a rebrand in New Zealand because it sounds like it is an "optional...
Police arrest 90 at rally in Jakarta against plan to ‘carve...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesian police have arrested a total of 90 Papuan students during a protest action near the Presidential Palace complex in Central...
Two pro-independence parties in New Caledonia vow to continue fight
RNZ Pacific
Two parties of New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) movement have restated their intention to attain the territory's decolonisation...
PNG opposition leader calls on lawyer MP to resign over shooting...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea opposition leader Belden Namah has called on a member of Parliament, Lohia Boe Samuel, to resign over the accidental fatal...
Parliament protest: Questions remain on funding sources and where the money...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter
Police will not give details about finances and their investigation into the New Zealand protest against covid-19...
After Australia’s floods, the distressing but necessary case for managed retreat
ANALYSIS: By Antonia Settle, The University of Melbourne
From Brisbane to Sydney, many thousands of Australians have been reliving a devastating experience they hoped --...
Declining NZ covid-19 case counts – but record deaths and more...
RNZ News
It is too early to say New Zealand has peaked, and declining tallies are no reason to celebrate as covid-19 is still rife...
TVNZ, RNZ merger a watershed moment for NZ media
COMMENTARY: By Paul Thompson
The New Zealand government last week unveiled the creation of a new public media entity that will incorporate RNZ and TVNZ....
Australian journalism school students ‘hung out to dry’ over sudden closure
By Kathleen Farmilo and Sweeney Preston in Sydney
Journalism students from Australia's Macleay College programme with 50 participants are saying their degrees have been cancelled...
Police break up protests in Jayapura over new Papuan provinces plan
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Hundreds of Cendrawasih University (Uncen) students took to the streets last week to hold actions opposing the creation of new provinces...