PNG’s O’Neill announces he is stepping down as PM
By RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has announced that is resigning, citing a need for change, after weeks of unrest in...
Big week for climate action rallies and democracy – pro-coal in...
By Megan Darby of Climate Home News
It has been a big week for democracy, starting with a pro-coal verdict in Australia and ending with...
Gary Juffa: Dear PM O’Neill, we’ll stop you selling out our...
OPEN LETTER: By Gary Juffa, Governor of Oro
Dear Prime Minister,
You sold all our todays and were about to sell our children's tomorrows too. You...
Duma’s URP defects from O’Neill coalition bloc in PNG power shift
The United Resources Party, led by Hagen Open MP William Duma, including four ministers, switches to the opposition. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The...
NZ seeks ‘explanations’ over USP mismanagement allegations
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters says his government is "asking for explanations" about alleged mismanagement at the regional University of the...
UN chief waffles over West Papuan human rights violations
Vanuatu-based journalist Ben Bohane raises West Papuan questions with UN Secretary-General António Guterres during his visit to Vanuatu. Video: Ben Bohane/Ginny Stein
By Dan McGarry...
6 killed as post-election Prabowo protest turns into Jakarta riots
Protests to challenge the presidential election results have escalated in the capital of Jakarta for two nights running. Video: Jakarta Post
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Jakarta...
Canberra cannot ignore Manus Island suicide attempt crisis, warns advocate
By RNZ Pacific
The Australian election result has precipitated a wave of suicide attempts among Manus Island refugees that the government can no longer ignore,...
Police lay terrorism charge against man accused of mosque shootings
By RNZ
New Zealand police have laid a terrorism charge against the man accused of murdering 51 people in Christchurch in deadly terror attacks on...
Outrage, polls and bias: 2019 election shows media regulation needs
By Denis Muller in Melbourne
Two big media-related issues have emerged from the federal election: how opinion polls are reported and the polarisation of the...
Death of Bougainvillean journalist Eric Tapakau stuns colleagues
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Former Post-Courier business editor Eric Tapakau died in Port Moresby over the weekend, where he was seeking medical treatment for a...
PNG opposition withdraws vote of no confidence against O’Neill
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's opposition says it is withdrawing its motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, but is likely to...
UN chief calls for immediate climate action to ‘save Pacific –...
COMMENTARY: By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
Vanuatu and other Pacific nations can teach a lesson to the world, says UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
“That lesson...
Will AI decide one day humans are messing up the world...
By Arnold Chanel in Suva
Countless fictional novels and Hollywood movies have time and time again provided glimpses of a scenario where Artificial Intelligence breaks...
Student journos form ‘biggest newsroom’ to cover election
By Michael Andrew
Journalism students across Australia collaborated in an immense project to cover the weekend's federal election.
Organised through The Junction, a website showcasing and...
Solomons PM under pressure to switch allegiance from Taiwan to China
By RNZ Pacific
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare is coming under increasing pressure from his own MPs to switch the country's political allegiance from...
Morrison leads Coalition to ‘miracle’ win, but how do they govern...
By Marija Taflaga of the Australian National University in Canberra
The man that has “always believed in miracles” has just delivered one for the Liberal...
Fiji exposé website Newsroom wins three NZ journalism awards
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Journalists at Newsroom, the website that exposed environmental destruction by a Chinese property developer last month, have won three reporting and...
New ‘anti’ force shakes up New Caledonian political landscape
By Duke Menango in Noumea
The provincial elections last Sunday have shaken the political landscape in New Caledonia with an upheaval in the Southern province...
USP Council to investigate claims of abuse of office amid staff...
By Wansolwara staff in Port Vila
A separate independent investigation will be conducted into allegations of abuse of office at the University of the South...