Free media ‘underpins justice’ message to PNG government by united media
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinean government has been bluntly and frankly reminded to leave mainstream media alone as a long...
Indonesia protests over Fiji’s Rabuka backing Papuan independence leader
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesia has protested to the Fiji government after Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka met with a Papuan independence leader in a morale boost...
PM Kalsakau in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu declares emergency as new storm bears...
RNZ Pacific
A state of emergency has been declared in Vanuatu following the damage to infrastructure and homes left by severe tropical cyclone Judy.
It comes...
An important book exposing problems immigrants – especially Muslims – face...
REVIEW: By Adam Brown
How to be a Bad Muslim is a collection of 19 short essays by Mohamed Hassan, an award-winning poet and an...
Papuan rebels deny asking for money, weapons to free NZ pilot...
Jubi News in Jayapura
The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) has denied Indonesian media claims that Egianus Kogoya, the commander of a TPNPB faction,...
One month after Auckland floods Pasifika people still in temp housing
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
Long-time residents in a street in Māngere, Auckland, say they never imagined that one day they would have to...
PNG Post-Courier: Let’s talk first on media policy and transparency
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
The discussions on Papua New Guinea's new draft media development policy will come to the fore today when the media industry presents...
RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an...
RNZ News
It has been a year since the violent end of the illegal occupation at Parliament in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you thought you...
K100,000 ransom paid for release of PNG hostages clarified as ‘third...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
The three local female researchers who were kidnapped with Australia-based New Zealand professor Bryce Barker are being kept in...
Papuan churches plea to rebel leader Egianus Kogoya to free NZ...
Jubi News in Jayapura
The Papuan Church Council has called on the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) unit led by Egianus Kogoya to immediately...
‘Shameful wage stealing’ endemic at Australian universities, says report
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney
A National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) report claims that “wage theft has shamefully become an endemic part of universities’ business...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Insurer says 20,000 NZ homes at risk of severe...
By Amy Williams, RNZ News journalist
Aotearoa New Zealand's largest insurer says 20,000 homes across the country are at severe risk of flooding and it...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Vanuatu RSE workers ‘safe and cared for’, say officials
Vanuatu Daily Post
A number of ni-Vanuatu Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) workers have also been impacted on by New Zealand's Cyclone Gabrielle devastation, particularly those...
Rotorua council’s scrapped Māori ward representation bill ‘done and dusted’
By Laura Smith in Rotorua
A controversial bill aimed at increasing Māori representation at one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most popular tourist destinations has been...
Health NZ chair fired over ‘political’ post, but says govt ‘overreacted’
Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand's board chairperson Rob Campbell has been sacked over a political attack he made about the opposition National Party's...
Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an...
COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of 1News
The appointment of Baron Waqa, former President of Nauru, to head the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) next...
The National welcomes government claim of no plan to control media
The National
Papua New Guinea's The National newspaper has welcomed a statement by the Information and Communication Technology Department (DICT) that the government has no...
UPNG monument plan for ‘inspired leader’ Sir Michael Somare
By Nathan Woti in Port Moresby
Prime Minister James Marape has approved the building of a monument of the late Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare...
‘Chilling effect on journalism’ – Fiji academic warns PNG against media...
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital and social media journalist, and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist and Pacific Waves presenter
A Pacific journalism academic has...
Marape clarifies kidnappers were paid K100,000 for freeing PNG hostages
NBC News
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has revealed that about K100,000 (about NZ$46,000) was paid to the kidnappers for the release of...











































