Tackling Pacific media’s crucial role in climate crisis and press freedom
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The news media’s crucial role in climate change and environment journalism was the focus of The University of the South Pacific’s Journalism Programme 2024...
‘Don’t mistake Pacific leaders AUKUS quietness’ as support for NZ, says...
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
A Pacific regionalism academic has called out New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters for withholding information from...
Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award
Asia Pacific Report
About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of...
Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
Along with the devastating death toll – now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...
Auckland University staff appeal over Gaza protest in solidarity with students
Asia Pacific Report
A group of 65 Auckland University academics have written an open letter to vice-chancellor Dawn Freshwater criticising the institution's stance over students...
Auckland academics call out university stance over pro-Palestine protest
RNZ News
A group of academic staff at New Zealand's largest university have expressed concern at the administration's move to block a protest encampment that...
New Caledonia’s women sit-in to support smeared Kanak journalist
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A women's union in New Caledonia has staged a sit-in protest this week to support senior...
ICC demands end to threats against court amid Gaza war probe
Asia Pacific Report
The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has appealed for an end to what it calls intimidation of its staff,...
Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets
By Stephen Wright and Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews
Fiji’s ranking in a global press freedom index has jumped into the top tier of countries with...
NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by...
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand has slumped to an unprecedented 19th place in the annual Reporters Without Borders 2024 World Press Freedom Index survey released...
USP Council votes to bring controversial VC back to Fiji
By Joe Yaya of Islands Business
Controversial University of the South Pacific (USP) vice-chancellor and president Professor Pal Ahluwalia will return to be based at...
Vanuatu’s Kalsakau resigns, calls for delay on constitutional referendum
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Vanuatu's former prime minister and opposition MP Ishmael Kalsakau has stepped down -- just two days after he confirmed...
OPM’s Bomanak accuses UN of failing to uphold decolonisation role over...
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan resistance leader has condemned the United Nations role in allowing Indonesia to "integrate" the Melanesian Pacific region in what...
NZ Foreign Minister Peters accused of ‘entirely defamatory’ remarks about ex-Australian...
By Jo Moir, RNZ News political editor, and Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor
New Zealand's Labour Party is demanding Winston Peters be stood down as...
Jeremiah Manele is new Solomon Islands PM with ‘100 day plan’
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
Jeremiah Manele has been elected Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, polling 31 votes to 18 over rival candidate and...
Zero tolerance – Solomon Islands police on high alert ahead of...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
Police in Solomon Islands are on high alert ahead of the election of the prime minister today.
The two candidates...
Ngāti Kahungunu becomes NZ’s first iwi to call for a Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
Ngāti Kahungunu in Aotearoa New Zealand's Hawkes Bay region has become the first indigenous Māori iwi (tribe) to sign a resolution calling...
PNG businesses want grants, not loans over Black Wednesday riots
By Dale Luma in Port Moresby
“We want grants and not concessional loans,” is the crisp message from Papua New Guinea businesses directly affected by...
Ready, set, go in Solomons PM race – Jeremiah Manele vs...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
Former opposition leader Matthew Wale has been announced as the second prime ministerial candidate ahead of the election in...
Pacific alliance condemns France over bid to ‘derail’ Kanaky decolonisation
Asia Pacific Report
A Pacific civil society alliance has condemned French neocolonial policies in Kanaky New Caledonia, saying Paris is set on "maintaining the status...