Pro-Palestinian protesters challenge Peters at state of the nation speech
SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Christchurch
Like a relentless ocean, wave after wave of pro-Palestinian pro-human rights protesters disrupted New Zealand deputy Prime Minister...
Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’...
Asia Pacific Report
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick called on New Zealand government MPs today to support her Member’s Bill to sanction Israel over its...
Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence
By Leah Lowonbu, Stefan Armbruster and Harlyne Joku of BenarNews
The Pacific’s peak diplomatic bodies have signalled they are ready to engage with Papua New...
Israel’s former chief justice Aharon Barak fears state risks ‘civil war’
Pacific Media Watch
Israel’s most revered jurist, former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, says that he fears the Netanyahu government’s latest actions, including moves to...
Joint Fiji forces tackle civil strife, flash flood crisis and rebels...
Asia Pacific Report
A joint operation between the Fiji Police Force, Republic of Fiji Military Force (RFMF), Territorial Force Brigade, Fiji Navy and National Fire...
US might not cut pledged Pacific aid, says NZ foreign minister
By Alex Willemyns for Radio Free Asia
The Trump administration might let hundreds of millions of dollars in aid pledged to Pacific island nations during...
PNG and Bougainville to hold more talks on independence issue
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
The parties involved in talks aimed at resolving an impasse over Bougainville's push for independence are planning to...
Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...
Pacific Media Watch
Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths of Plains FM96.9 radio talk to Dr David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report, about heightened...
Swarbrick pleads for NZ cross-party support for sanctions on Israel
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the need for Aotearoa New Zealand to impose sanctions against Israel has...
‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Today I attended a demonstration outside both Aotearoa New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in...
Netanyahu commits a new ‘bloodbath in Gaza’ to save himself
Asia Pacific Report
At least 400 people have been killed after a surprise Israeli attack on Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Israeli government...
Hipkins accuses PM of undermining NZ’s nuclear-free stance in India memo
RNZ News
New Zealand opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins is accusing the prime minister of reversing a long-held foreign policy during his current trip to...
Massacre at 2 am – Israel resumes indiscriminate attacks against Gaza,...
Israel says President Donald Trump green lit a scorched-earth bombing of Gaza that wiped out entire families and killed dozens of infants and other...
West Papua liberation group demands Indonesia releases 12 arrested activists
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan liberation advocacy group has condemned the arrest of 12 activists by Indonesian police and demanded their immediate release.
The West...
Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Papua New Guinea being declared a Christian nation may offer the impression that the country will improve, but it...
PSNA calls on NZ govt to condemn renewed Israel air strikes...
Asia Pacific Report
A national Palestinian advocacy group has called on the Aotearoa New Zealand government to immediately condemn Israel for its resumption today of...
New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable
ANALYSIS: By Robert Patman
New Zealand's National-led coalition government’s policy on Gaza seems caught between a desire for a two-state diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian...
Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out
Columbia Journalism School
Freedom of the press -- a bedrock principle of American democracy -- is under threat in the United States.
Here at Columbia University...
Fijian academic says PM’s plans to change constitution ‘might take a...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
A Fijian academic believes Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's failed attempt to garner enough parliamentary support to change the country's...
Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world
SPECIAL REPORT: By Peter Cronau for Declassified Australia
Australia is caught in a jam, between an assertive American ally and a bold Chinese trading partner....