Indonesian military set to complete Trans-Papua Highway under Prabowo’s rule
By Julian Isaac
The Indonesian Military (TNI) is committed to supporting the completion of the Trans-Papua Highway during President Prabowo Subianto's term in office.
While the...
ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call...
By Jamie Tahana in The Hague for RNZ Pacific
In 2019, a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific, frustrated at...
Gaza – an open question for NZ’s foreign minister Winston Peters
OPEN QUESTION: By Bryan Bruce
Dear Rt Hon Winston Peters,
There was a time when New Zealanders stood up for what was morally right. There are...
Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
A longtime Bougainville politician, Joe Lera, wants to see widespread changes in the way the Autonomous Bougainville Government...
Gaza not a religious issue – it’s a massive violation of...
Asia Pacific Report
Groups that have declined to join the government-sponsored "harmony accord" signed yesterday by some Muslim and Jewish groups, say that the proposed...
Gaza: Empty rhetoric from New Zealand and other Western countries
In a joint statement, more than two dozen Western countries, including New Zealand, have called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza....
NZ and allies condemn ‘inhumane’, ‘horrifying’ killings in Gaza and ‘drip...
RNZ News
New Zealand has joined 24 other countries in calling for an end to the war in Gaza, and criticising what they call the...
Sky TV to buy channel Three owner Discovery NZ for $1
By Anan Zaki, RNZ News business reporter
Sky TV has agreed to fully acquire TV3 owner Discovery New Zealand for $1.
Discovery NZ is a part...
Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had...
ANALYSIS: By Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
While public attention has been focused on the domestic fast-track consenting process for infrastructure and...
Keep fighting for a nuclear-free Pacific, Helen Clark warns Greenpeace over...
Asia Pacific Report
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark warned activists and campaigners in a speech on the deck of the Greenpeace environmental flagship...
PSNA calls on NZ to urgently condemn Israeli weaponisation of starvation
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on the New Zealand government to immediately condemn Israel's weaponisation of starvation and demand an...
Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves
By Mary Afemata, of PMN News and RNZ Pacific
Porirua City Council is set to create a memorial for more than 1800 former patients of...
Cook Islanders flock from outer islands for 60th anniversary celebrations
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
The Cook Islands' outer islands, or Pa Enua, are emptying as people make the pilgrimage to Rarotonga for constitution...
Is the international community finally speaking up about Israel’s Gaza genocide?
Al Jazeera
International public opinion continues to turn against Israel for its war on Gaza, with more governments slowly beginning to reflect those voices and...
Palestine solidarity rally greeted by Rainbow Warrior Gaza protest
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian supporters and protesters against the 21 months of Israeli genocide in Gaza marched after a rally in downtown Auckland today across...
ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent
United States immigration and deportation enforcement continues to ramp up, impacting on Marshallese and Micronesians in...
Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative
COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim
"If words shape our consciousness, then the media holds the keys to minds."
This sentence is not merely a metaphor, but a...
Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Nobody has a bad word to say about the French Resistance in the Second World War, right? Who would criticise a...
Flying the flags for Palestine – NZ protesters take message to...
The Devonport Flagstaff
About 200 people marched in Devonport last Saturday in support of Palestine.
Pro-Palestine flags and placards were draped on the band rotunda at...
Police protection for New Caledonian politicians following death threats
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonian politicians who inked their commitment to a deal with France last weekend will be...