Bougainville election process begins as writs issued for September poll
RNZ Pacific
The Bougainville election process begins today with the issuance of the writs yesterday.
Nominations open Tuesday, July 8, and close on Thursday, July 10.
Voting...
NZDF not considering recruiting personnel from Pacific nations
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is not considering recruiting personnel from across the Pacific as talk continues of...
The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10...
Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Octo Mote
Pacific Media Watch
West Papuan independence advocate Octovianus Mote was in Aotearoa New Zealand late last year seeking support for independence for West Papua, which...
27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...
Asia Pacific Report
Australian solidarity activists today marked the 27th anniversary of the Biak massacre in West Papua and have warned the human rights crisis...
Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice...
Asia Pacific Report
Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free champion in the 1980s, and challenged...
Palestine protesters target NZ businesses ‘complicit’ with Israel’s Gaza genocide
Asia Pacific Report
Protesters against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and occupied West Bank targeted three business sites accused of being "complicit" in Aotearoa New...
Guam nuclear radiation survivors ‘heartbroken’ over exclusion from compensation bill
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
People on Guam are "disappointed" and "heartbroken" that radiation exposure compensation is not being extended to them, says the...
Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal
Author David Robie and Little Island Press are about to publish next week a 40th anniversary...
UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy...
Asia Pacific Report
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has called on countries to cut off all trade and financial...
Palestine solidarity group lawyers refer NZ prime minister Luxon, 3 ministers...
Asia Pacific Report.
In an unprecedented legal move in Aotearoa New Zealand, a national Palestine solidarity advocacy group has filed a referral against the prime...
The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Immediately after killing Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents...
Catholic Church warns against PNG declaring itself a ‘Christian country’
By Reinhard Minong in Port Moresby
The Catholic Church has strongly warned against Papua New Guinea’s political rhetoric and push to declare the nation a...
Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast
Pacific Media Watch
In July 1985, Australia's Pacific territory of Norfolk Island (pop. 2188) became the centre of a real life international spy thriller.
Four French...
Tonga cybersecurity attack wake-up call for Pacific, warns expert
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
A Tongan cybersecurity expert says the country's health data hack is a "wake-up call" for the whole region.
Siosaia...
Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Rev Mua Strickson-Pua
Pacific Media Watch
When advocates and defenders of a nuclear-free Pacific condemned the AUKUS military pact two years ago and warned New Zealand that the...
The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report...
Asia Pacific Report
In the new weekly political podcast, The Bradbury Group, last night presenter Martyn Bradbury talked with visiting Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal.
They...
Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation
ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges
Israel’s weaponisation of starvation is how genocides always end.
I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during...
Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step...
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
The Micronesian Islands Forum cranks up with officials meetings this week in Majuro, with...
Fiji human rights coalition challenges Rabuka over decolonisation ‘unfinished business’
Asia Pacific Report
The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji (NGOCHR) has called on Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka as the new chair of the...