New Caledonia court again defers Temaru case over Radio Tefana
By RNZ Pacific
The court case in New Caledonia brought by French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru against the French prosecutor over the Faa'a community...
With US D-day, the outcome won’t be simply a matter of...
ANALYSIS: By Jennifer S. Hunt, Australian National University
It has been billed as the most significant US election in generations, and with nearly 100 million...
Ardern now leads one of the most powerful governments NZ has...
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University
Jacinda Ardern’s new “covid cabinet” is pretty much the same as — and completely unlike — every previous...
Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power
A clip from This Is Not A Movie, a 2020 documentary by about Robert Fisk. Video: Doc Edge Festival
Veteran journalist Robert Fisk, who for...
The judgment of Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru – a neocolonial sense of...
ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva
The unfolding in French Polynesia of the latest judiciary entanglements of pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru versus the French administration is being...
Ardern springs surprise with Mahuta now in charge of ‘Pacific reset’
By Jane Patterson, RNZ Political Editor
The bolt out of the blue in New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's new cabinet is Nanaia Mahuta as...
People want ‘truth’ about West Papua, say activists giving crisis update
Pacfic Media Watch Newsdesk
West Papuan activists and an Indonesian human rights lawyer criticised the recent military crackdown on the two Melanesian provinces of Papua...
Covid at Kwajalein Army base sparks Majuro worry, protocol changes
By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
Despite increasing calls this week from community and political leaders to keep the Marshall...
Challenging covid-19 – two critics of PNG’s K10m drug development plan
COMMENTARY: By My Land, My Country
The Post-Courier newspaper says a company, Niugini BioMed Ltd, set up just a month ago, will be be commissioned...
Nik Dirga: The one word that really matters for US election...
OPINION: By Nik Dirga
I conducted a highly scientific study among a handful of my Facebook friends back home in America this week, asking them...
‘Suspicious’ fishing vessels spotted in Solomon Islands waters
By Priestley Habru in Honiara
A Pacific-wide maritime surveillance operation this week discovered a few suspicious foreign vessels in Solomon waters.
The Pacific Islands Forum Agency...
NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’
By RNZ News
Green Party delegates have voted to accept a deal with Labour which will give it two ministerial portfolios outside of cabinet in...
Independent investigators blame TNI for killing of Papuan pastor
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Papua Province Humanitarian Team for Cases of Violence Against Religious Figures in Intan Jaya Regency, Haris Azhar, has announced the...
NZ referendum preliminary results – yes to euthanasia reform, no...
By RNZ News
The euthanasia referendum has passed New Zealand's public vote, with 65.2 percent voting in favour, but the cannabis question has 53.1 percent...
French minister Lecornu holds future talks in New Caledonia retreat
By RNZ News
French Overseas Minister Sebastien Lecornu has held talks with 10 New Caledonian politicians at a retreat near Noumea to promote dialogue between...
Wenda accuses Indonesian special forces over Papua ‘hunting ground’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Indonesian special forces are turning West Papua into "more of a hunting ground", warns an exiled Papuan leader in response to...
Port Moresby evicts 400 squatters to make way for new capital...
By Miriam Zarriga and Clifford Faiparik
About 400 squatters in Papua New Guinea watched helplessly as excavators demolished their homes and properties to make way...
ULMWP accuses Jakarta over ‘martial law’ after police fire on students
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The United Liberation Movement if West Papua (ULMWP) has accused the Indonesian government of imposing martial law on the Melanesian region...
Stay out of cabinet – be independent, former MP tells Greens
By RNZ News
Former Green Party MP Keith Locke says his contemporaries should stay out of the New Zealand cabinet in order to remain critical...
Bryan Bruce: Labour Day … eroded by neoliberalism and selfishness
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce
Today is Labour Day in New Zealand - the public holiday set aside to celebrate the rights of workers and in...