Vanuatu PM Salwai seeks UN probe on West Papua human rights...
UN video sourced from the West Papua Liberation Organisation.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas has expressed his country’s concern about the...
Willie Jackson: Vision, hope and compassion will beat lies in NZ
OPINION: By Willie Jackson
Never before has Labour come from 23 percent to be neck and neck with National. Jacinda has touched people and made...
West Papua ignored by most NZ major political parties’ election policies
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
On the eve of New Zealand’s 2017 general election, Pacific Media Watch reports on whether West Papua features in the human...
Labour MP blames Māori Party for NZ ‘inequality’ as National’s partners
By Philip Cass in Auckland
Mangere Labour MP Aupito William Sio has hit out at claims by Tongan Māori Party candidate Manase Lua that Labour...
Barry Coates: Setting NZ on a path for transformative change
OPINION: By Barry Coates
There’s a lot at stake in this New Zealand general election tomorrow. We face huge challenges ahead, including tackling climate change...
Consulate denies Māori Party claim for royal backing for Tongan candidate
By Philip Cass in Auckland
Tonga's Consul has denied claims by Tongan Māori Party candidate Manase Lua that he was endorsed by King Tupou VI.
Lua...
Pasifika voters want ‘hand-ups, not hand-outs’ in NZ housing crisis
By Kendall Hutt in Māngere
Pasifika voters in South Auckland have stressed they would like to see “hand-ups, not hand-outs” following New Zealand’s 2017 general...
West Papua: Five facts about Indonesia’s ‘dark, dirty secret’
ANALYSIS: By Connor Woodman
The Indonesian President, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, is desperate to keep hidden Indonesia’s dark, dirty secret - its brutal 50-year war in...
Jakarta advocacy group accuses hardline general over attack
By Dwi Andayani and Noval Dwinuary Antoni in Jakarta
Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) advocacy head Muhammad Isnur has accused retired Major-General Kivlan Zen and...
Vanuatu’s PM aims at UN over ‘sensitive’ West Papua issue
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Vanuatu’s Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas, says some South Pacific leaders at this month's Forum in Samoa backed off...
The Daily Blog: Why we’re giving 13 NZ political parties a...
Kiwi Fair Go Debate #KiwiFairGo - tonight at 8pm.
OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury of The Daily Blog
I love New Zealand's democracy. It’s representative, it allows...
Dressed to impress – PNG’s second city Lae celebrates Independence Day
A flag-lowering ceremony held in the capital of Port Moresby on Saturday concluded Papua New Guinea's 42nd Independence anniversary celebrations. Video: EMTV News
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Callamard slams $26 state budget for Philippine human rights body
By Paterno Esmaquel II in Manila
United Nations Rapporteur Agnes Callamard has slammed the P1000 (NZ$26) budget that the House of Representatives voted to...
Gary Juffa: Happy Independence Day PNG but what about our daughters?
OPINION: By Gary Juffa in Port Moresby
"O arise all you sons of this land"... that there is perhaps one of the problems to progress...
PMC’s David Robie and Gadjah Mada team in Indonesian academic exchange
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Professor David Robie, director of the Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, and seven academics from Indonesia’s Universitas Gadjah Mada...
Journalist faces defamation probe over Indonesia’s treatment of West Papua posting
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices
Indonesian police in East Java are investigating a veteran journalist for comparing former President Megawati Sukarnoputri to Myanmar's Aung...
Indonesian police probe funding for group accused of ‘hate hoaxes’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Indonesia's National Police continue to dig deeper into the Saracen group, an online syndicate accused of creating and spreading hoax news and...
Māori, Pasifika to have stronger profile in Labour RNZ+ media policy
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
New Zealand’s Māori and Pasifika community will have a stronger presence in the country’s public media if the Labour Party succeeds...
Papuan landowners in PNG to receive first LNG project royalties of...
Boera village in Central province landowners from the PNG LNG Project to receive royalties. Video: EMTV News
By Meriba Tulo in Boera village, Papua New...
Murdoch press in Australia linked to deforestation in Indonesia
By Vaidehi Shah
Environmental campaigners have accused The Australian and Courier Mail newspapers in regional Queensland of being printed on paper linked to illegal deforestation...