West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's West New Britain province Governor Sasindran Muthuvel says the public is deeply frustrated with repeated armed...
UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death...
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a blistering report on media complicity in war crimes as Israelis headed to the polls. Michael West...
Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any...
COMMENTARY: By Mohamad Kadan
For the majority of Israelis, the general election today is a choice between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the forces that...
PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian...
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand's oldest and largest Palestine solidarity movement today called on political parties to press for "immediate expulsion" of Israeli Ambassdor Alon...
‘Strengthening ties’ or ‘shameful’? – why Israel’s new Pacific status is...
By Kelvin Anthony of RNZ Pacific
Israel's inclusion into the Pacific region's main political body has drawn sharply contrasting reactions across the region.
While the official...
New Zealand election: Where political parties stand on Pasifika issues
By Christina Persico of RNZ Pacific
Early voting has opened for the general election in Aotearoa New Zealand.
New Zealand uses MMP, mixed member proportional representation....
Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...
COMMENTARY: By Senia Burr
Mr Gavoka, with respect, you do not speak for the “entire Pacific Islands” when you say the Pacific identifies with Israel...
Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
I cast my vote. Did it today. And I resisted the temptation to dance around the voting floor yelling the rebel...
Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...
By Kelvin Anthony of RNZ Pacific
Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first and only prime minister of Indian descent, has warned that the island nation is "worse...
‘I said no’ – Samoan PM told Luxon treaty refresh must...
RNZ Pacific reporters
Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa (La'auli) Leuatea Schmidt paused talks on a refreshed treaty with New Zealand until after the New Zealand general...
Shameful Israel move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
In what is probably one of its most shameful acts ever, the Pacific Islands Forum...
The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...
ANALYSIS: By Mohan J. Dutta
Count the hands the footage passed through. Whakaata Māori reported the video first. RNZ said it had independently obtained...
Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...
COMMENTARY: By Aisake Casimira
The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) has been and will always be for justice, peace and integrity of creation, going back...
Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...
By Juno Reyes in Manila
The arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. is an attack on press freedom in the Philippines, says the veteran investigative journalist’s...
Gaza media: ‘Why we document history – even if accountability feels...
Pacific Media Watch
“You’re not just reporting on the story ... you are the main character.”
That's how award-winning Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha...
Palestine Forum calls on NZ to act against ‘weaponised, engineered’ Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
A Palestinian advocacy group has called on the New Zealand government to act against the "weaponisation" and "engineering" of starvation by Israel...
‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s...
By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific
The region's premier ecumenical organisation is calling for Israel's new partnership with the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to be...
Israel votes against decolonisation for Pacific at UN – then says...
COMMENTARY: By Stefan Armbruster
Israel voted against all UN resolutions concerning decolonisation of the six Pacific territories at the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee (Decolonisation...
New Caledonia pro-independence leaders boycott EU critical minerals deal
By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific
Pro-independence leaders in New Caledonia's Congress have boycotted the signing of a strategic partnership deal on critical raw materials...
Israel’s relationship with Pacific is ‘biblical, ageless, real’, says Fiji deputy...
RNZ Pacific reporters
A Fiji deputy prime minister says the Pacific identifies with Israel in ways many would not understand.
Viliame Gavoka, who is also the...











































