No arrests as ‘freedom’ protest winds up peacefully outside NZ’s Parliament
RNZ News
New Zealand police praised how an anti-government protest at Parliament unfolded today, saying there were no arrests and no trespass orders issued.
Police estimated...
Huawei wins US$66m contract for expanding Solomons telecom network
RNZ Pacific
The Solomon Islands government has secured a US$66 million (NZ$106 million) loan from China for tech giant Huawei to expand the country's telecommunications...
Kramer ‘ambushes’ PNG’s chief ombudsman, challenges integrity
By Jeffrey Elapa of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby
Madang MP Bryan Kramer, who held the police, justice and later immigration portfolios in the...
PNG police probe into Mendi mayhem names four rival political suspects
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby
Four prominent Papua New Guinean political leaders are on the police radar for their alleged...
Ardern, Robertson talk Kiwibank, Sharma and NZ flooding
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister of Finance Grant Robertson used today's post-cabinet briefing to discuss the shifting ownership of the...
Colonial ideas have kept NZ and Australia in a rut of...
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
Crisis is a word often used in politics and the media -- the covid crisis, the housing crisis,...
UN report blames Fiji student dropout on ‘inadequate parental support’
By Anish Chand in Suva
Inadequate parental support and the lack of parental engagement with education stakeholders are resulting in boys’ disengagement from education in...
Papuan governor supports advocacy group’s call for NZ scholarship
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland
Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia's Melanesian province of Papua has expressed support for a call from the Papuan Student Association...
‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to...
By Rebecca Kuku of The National, Papua New Guinea
One of the survivors of a horrifying sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) attack and torture of nine...
A NZ media conundrum over how to cover the ‘dangerous’ conspiracists
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
A documentary from Stuff Circuit this week delved into Aotearoa New Zealand's growing extreme far-right and anti-vax movement.
Why did...
Mendi a battlefield as disgruntled PNG election rivals raid police station
PNG Post-Courier
The Southern Highlands capital -- Mendi -- has turned into a battlefield in Papua New Guinea this week as supporters of different candidates...
Jokowi accused of whitewashing rights crimes in latest ‘impunity’ decree
IndoLeft News
Indonesia's Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy says that the presidential decree (Keppres) on the formation of a team for the non-judicial resolution...
A river runs through city – Nelson surveys damage and clean-up...
RNZ Pacific
Residents of Nelson in Aotearoa New Zealand's South Island are cleaning up and counting the cost of flood damage across the region, while...
Elections hopeful Taniguchi gave up citizenship to become Fijian
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
It was the friendliness of Fijians that led educator Hiroshi Taniguchi to give up his Japanese citizenship and make Fiji...
Tahiti’s nuclear compo advocate to be honoured in French Polynesia
RNZ Pacific
The office of the Tahitian president says it wants to honour the memory of Bruno Barrillot who was the head of French Polynesia's...
Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist
The president of Vanuatu has dissolved the country's Parliament just over halfway through the current four-year-term.
President Nikenike Vurobaravu signed...
Former Kiribati president warns judicial crisis could undermine democracy
RNZ Pacific
A former president of Kiribati warns the crisis involving the island nation's government and the courts has left the country with a "dysfunctional...
Kramer welcomes PNG Tribunal hearing to clear ‘ridiculous’ claims
By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby
A Leadership Tribunal has been appointed in Papua New Guinea to enquire into allegations of misconduct against the Member...
Hundreds evacuated in NZ’s South Island floods – state of emergency
RNZ News
Hundreds of people in Nelson in Aotearoa New Zealand's South Island spent the night out of their homes and a state of emergency...
Morrison’s multiple portfolios: why the law has nothing to do with it
ANALYSIS: By Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University and Emily Millane, The University of Melbourne
The go-to defence of pretty much everyone who is entangled in...