NZ’s Parliament anti-mandates protest deadlock – where to from here?
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist
Two weeks in and New Zealand's anti-mandates occupation of Parliament grounds remains a total stalemate with no sign...
Jack Lapauve: Why we walked out in protest over EMTV news...
COMMENTARY: EMTV's deputy news editor Jack Lapauve Jr in Port Moresby writes in defence of the newsroom's decision to walk out in protest over...
Nick Rockel: Flower children and neo-Nazis, don’t hold the capital to...
COMMENTARY: Open letter by Nick Rockel to the Parliament protesters.
So the Parliament protest goes on, the first protest I can recall having absolutely no...
NZ capital’s residents fed up with Parliament protest as new covid...
RNZ News
Some residents of the area around New Zealand's Parliament in the capital Wellington are worried about leaving their houses with protesters outside, while...
Mad, bad or mostly moderate? Media’s mixed message on protest
RNZ Mediawatch
There was plenty of condemnation of New Zealand's illegal occupation of Parliament in the media at first -- but this week some media...
NZ police begin to clear up some of blockade near Parliament...
RNZ News
New Zealand police have moved to start clearing up the roads near Parliament in the capital Wellington, where protesters have clogged the roads...
Overcoming trauma, Papuan students in NZ now face new challenge
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mary Argue of the Wairarapa Times-Age
Screams erupted as the sound of gunshots ricocheted around the open-air market. People ran.
It was bloody.
“I...
Parliament disruption: Growing calls for NZ protesters to go home
RNZ News
Many central Wellington shops face a crisis, university buildings have been closed for eight weeks and many report major disruptions from the illegal...
PNG faces dilemma over ‘momentous’ decision to reopen Bougainville’s Panguna mine
Last week the Bougainville Autonomous Government announced an agreement had been reach with Panguna landowners to reopen the island's controversial gold and copper mine.
Once...
‘We’ve had enough’ call to NZ capital protesters from city ‘who’s...
RNZ News
Almost 30 community leaders of New Zealand's capital Wellington have banded together to urge an immediate end of the illegal protest activities at...
‘Corruption fighter’ Justice Minister Kramer vows to contest PNG Ombudsman charges
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Justice Minister and Madang MP Bryan Kramer has been referred to the Public Prosecutor by the...
Protesting EMTV news staff walk out – no live 6pm news...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Papua New Guinean television station EMTV did not run its usual 6pm news bulletin last night as its journalists and news...
Anti-media sentiment among NZ protesters big concern, say experts
By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter
The anti-mandate protests in New Zealand's capital Wellington and around the country have also contained a strong anti-media sentiment...
EMTV news team walk out in protest over suspension of their...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The national news team of Papua New Guinea's major television channel, EMTV, walked out last night in protest over a decision...
NZ Parliament occupation: Protesters’ vehicle blockade remains on 10th day
RNZ News
Police have pulled back on their plans to begin towing vehicles illegally parked around the anti-vaccine, anti-mandate protest on Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament...
Māori iwi leaders call for an end to NZ’s protest in...
RNZ News
Wellington iwi leaders have called for an end to Aotearoa New Zealand's 10-day-old anti-covid mandates protest in Parliament grounds and condemned comparisons made...
11 Fiji church ministers refuse to be vaccinated against covid –...
RNZ Pacific
A group of church ministers in Fiji have resigned because they do not want to be vaccinated against covid-19.
There has been growing pressure...
Mayor slams Kaipara councillor’s protest role as ‘health risk’
By Susan Botting, Local Democracy Reporting journalist
A Kaipara district councillor's almost week-long participation in New Zealand's anti-covid-19 mandate protest at Parliament is jeopardising the...
Pasifika make up half of cases in NZ’s omicron variant surge...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pasifika people are making up about half of the cases in the current outbreak of the omicron variant in...
Police act against NZ protester vehicles but admit towies unwilling to...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Police Commissioner admits some tow companies are reluctant to help with the removal of vehicles near Parliament but says some towing...