Te Amokura – Tairāwhiti artists behind Warriors indigenous jersey
By Kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O'Connor of The Gisborne Herald
Tairāwhiti tā moko artists Maia Gibbs and Henare Brooking designed the jersey the Warriors wore...
Petition to officially name country Aotearoa delivered to Parliament
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter
New Zealand's Te Pāti Māori has handed over its petition -- with 70,000 signatures -- calling for the...
Amnesty says police forced Papuans to cut hair and beards in...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Amnesty International Indonesia has revealed that police officers forced a number of residents of Intan Jaya regency in Papua to cut...
Australia has more women in cabinet than ever before: what difference...
ANALYSIS: By Louise Chappell, UNSW Sydney and Claire Annesley, UNSW Sydney
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first cabinet is Australia’s most diverse ever. Not only do...
O’Neill warns Marape over ‘improper’ eleventh hour China meeting
PNG Post-Courier
Opposition People’s National Congress leader Peter O’Neill is urging Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape and the government to refrain from signing...
As Wong makes her mark in the Pacific, the Albanese government...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Walker, La Trobe University
Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s decision to embark on a diplomatic offensive to outflank China in the Pacific within...
Church bells, police sirens mark 60 years of Samoa’s independence
RNZ Pacific
Church bells and police sirens rang out across Samoa at midnight to herald the start of 12 months of nationwide celebrations for the...
PNG’s energy minister, supporters flee for their lives in elections attack
By Shirley Mauludu in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Energy Minister Saki Soloma and his supporters had to run for their lives when they were...
Temaru hits back over probe in pro-independence Radio Tefana case
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's pro-independence leader and mayor of Faa'a, Oscar Temaru, says double standards are at play in probing him over the payment of...
French reporter ‘paid with his life’ for reliable Ukraine war coverage
Pacific Media Watch
Appalled by French reporter Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff’s death in Ukraine on Monday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for a transparent investigation into...
Aupito heads to Fiji as government faces pressure over China strategy
RNZ Pacific
Aotearoa New Zealand's Pacific Minister Aupito William Sio is set to travel to Fiji tomorrow, while Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta is under increased...
Amplifying narratives about the ‘China threat’ in the Pacific may help...
ANALYSIS: By Joanne Wallis, University of Adelaide and Maima Koro, University of Adelaide
Yet more proposed Chinese “security agreements” in the Pacific Islands have been...
China documents threaten Pacific sovereignty, warns FSM president
RNZ Pacific
The President of the Federated States of Micronesia says he has serious concerns about the details of two leaked Chinese government documents to...
‘Democracy can be fragile’: Ardern uses Harvard speech to call out...
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has delivered the highly regarded Harvard Commencement address, calling out social media as a threat to modern...
Tahitian pro-independence leader Temaru detained over funding
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's pro-independence leader and mayor of Faa'a, Oscar Temaru, has been held for questioning over the funding of his defence in a...
Defend media freedom in Pacific, says USP’s journalism head
By Sue Ahearn of The Pacific Newsroom in Canberra
Pacific journalists must be allowed to do their jobs, says the head of journalism at the...
Kiribati ‘forced’ to allow China visit on Pacific mission, says journalist
RNZ Pacific
A Pacific journalist believes the Kiribati government has been coerced by Beijing to accommodate China's foreign minister's visit.
Kiribati authorities have confirmed that Wang...
West Papuan students fight on for rights to education in Aotearoa
By George Heagney of Stuff in Palmerston North
Students from West Papua desperate to stay in New Zealand after having their scholarships cut are pinning...
Solomons media condemns ‘secrecy’ controls over China delegation
RNZ Pacific
The Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) has urged its members to boycott a media conference for a visiting Chinese delegation in protest...
FijiFirst not fit to run country over ‘dry taps – no...
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
People’s Alliance party leader Sitiveni Rabuka says the FijiFirst government is not fit to run the country because it cannot...