‘Take care of each other’, says PM Hipkins after assessing Auckland...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has acknowledged the way Aucklanders have come together and opened their homes to those in need, with the New...
Richard Naidu: Rule of law – maybe a time for Aiyaz...
COMMENTARY: By Richard Naidu in Suva
Breakfast they say, is the most important meal of the day.
But last Wednesday it was possibly also the most...
Auckland thunderstorm: Furore over unsent Civil Defence warning texts
RNZ News
Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty has asked for communication on support after the severe thunderstorm in Auckland to be stepped up.
It comes...
Nick Rockel: When the public’s important at election time, but not...
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel in Tāmaki Makaurau
The weather is all over the show, the storm water system clearly hopelessly inadequate, the house prices are...
Three dead, at least one missing, and airport closes in Auckland...
RNZ News
Three people are dead and at least one person is missing following the flooding overnight in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city.
About 1000 people...
Why NZ voters should beware of reading too much into political...
ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, Massey University
With a new prime minister sworn in and a cabinet reshuffle imminent, it is no exaggeration to say the...
Auckland mayor declares emergency as wild weather lashes NZ’s north
RNZ News
Mayor Wayne Brown has shut down criticism that he was too slow in declaring a state of emergency after severe flooding in Auckland,...
Tokelau declares 2023 elections result in spite of comms problems
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
The government of Tokelau has declared the results of the 2023 national general elections.
Voting took place on all three...
Fiji’s President suspends police chief Qiliho and prisons boss Kean
RNZ Pacific
The President of Fiji has suspended the country's chief of police and its head of prison services following advice from the Constitutional Offices...
Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement
REVIEW: By Rowan Callick
Radio Australia was conceived at the beginning of the Second World War out of Canberra’s desire to counter Japanese propaganda in...
Activists hail life jail sentence for army major over brutal Papuan...
RNZ Pacific
The Indonesian military says a tribunal has sentenced an army major to life in prison for his involvement in the brutal murder of...
Fiji’s coalition trinity means ‘more cooks’ but Rabuka confident on future
The first time Sitiveni Rabuka was elected into office was more than 30 years ago. Today marks a little over a month since he...
Aiyaz ‘trying to mislead the people’ over use of term Fijian,...
By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva
Fiji's Constitution does not require everything related to the government to be called Fijian, says Attorney-General Siromi Turaga.
Speaking during a...
USP student body welcomes Fiji’s commitment to settle grant dues
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva
Students at the Fiji-based regional University of the South Pacific have welcomed the announcement by the new coalition government to...
Papuan journalist Victor Mambor says bomb attack likely due to his...
Pacific Media Watch
A prominent Papuan journalist has said a recent bombing near his home is the latest in a string of attacks against him,...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins defends cost-of-living record, promises more action
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has put the "bread and butter" issue of inflation at the top of...
Ian Powell: Sociopaths, psychopaths, the far-right and Jacinda Ardern
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell
On 14 December 2022 German police arrested 25 people over what was called the “Reichsburger plot”. Two days later The Observer...
Fiji police suspend questioning of former AG Aiyaz in ‘hatred’ case
RNZ Pacific
Police interviewing of FijiFirst Party general secretary and former attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has reportedly been suspended but will continue later.
FBC News reports the...
Titewhai Harawira, a ‘feisty, staunch, protector’, dies, aged 90
Te Ao Māori
Northland kuia Titewhai Harawira has died in Avondale, aged 90.
Titewhai Harawira was a familiar face at Waitangi Day celebrations where she frequently...
‘Terror’ bomb explodes near Papua journalist Victor Mambor’s home
By Dandy Koswaraputra and Pizaro Gozali Idrus
A veteran journalist known for covering rights abuses in Indonesia’s militarised Papua region says a bomb exploded outside...