People’s Party back all-women team for PNG capital hot seats
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
The People’s Party has made an unprecedented announcement to endorse four women candidates for all four National Capital District...
Fears that NZ Parliament protest turning into political ‘free-for-all’
By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter
Misinformation researchers are concerned the protest at New Zealand' s Parliament is becoming a "free-for-all" as the idea of...
RSF condemns threats, violence against media from NZ’s ‘freedom convoy’ protest
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the threats and violence against news media by protesters during the 16-day anti-covid-19 vaccine mandates...
West Papuan leader Victor Yeimo indicted on ‘treason’ charges
RNZ Pacific
West Papuan human rights defender Victor Yeimo has been formally indicted on charges of "treason" by Indonesian authorities at the Jayapura District Court.
The...
‘Take omicron seriously,’ expert Rod Jackson warns New Zealand
RNZ News
Epidemiologist Professor Rod Jackson is urging New Zealanders to take omicron seriously, and certainly not to think of it as similar to the...
The NZ Parliament protest is testing police independence and public tolerance...
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
The early morning action on Monday to cordon off the occupation of Parliament grounds and prevent it growing...
Police criticise ‘disgraceful’ NZ protesters after early clash
By Nick Truebridge, RNZ Checkpoint reporter
Police leaders condemned the behaviour by protesters outside New Zealand's Parliament in the capital Wellington today as "absolutely disgraceful".
The...
Fiji covid death rate among unvaxxed 17 times higher than for...
RNZ Pacific
The Fiji government has warned that unvaccinated people in the vaccine-eligible population are 17 times more likely to die if they contract covid-19...
Protest funder hopes it will revive NZ’s $18 billion tourism industry
RNZ News
One of the people funding New Zealand's two-week-old Parliament grounds occupation says it makes no sense to maintain a quarantine system at the...
Lynley Tulloch: The irony of the Parliament protest: Peace and love...
COMMENTARY: By Lynley Tulloch
There is a dangerous anger on rapid boil at the protest in Wellington. It is a stew of dispossession and...
PNGTUC blames minister Duma’s news blackout order for EMTV crisis
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A national trade union in Papua New Guinea today blamed State Enterprises Minister William Duma for causing a media freedom furore...
Easing of NZ restrictions to begin ‘well beyond’ omicron peak, says...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the omicron outbreak is likely to peak in Aotearoa New Zealand in three to six weeks.
At that point,...
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...