Australian bid to criminalise Palestine support creates ‘hierarchy of racism’, says...
Pacific Media Watch
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on the New Zealand government to not follow Australia’s policy moves which would effectively criminalise...
Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
New Zealand will not send top government representation to the Cook Islands for its 60th Constitution Day celebrations in...
Israeli settlers beat to death 2 Palestinians in latest lynchings
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied West Bank
Two young Palestinians were beaten to death on their land by Israeli settlers in the occupied...
New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's pro-and-anti-independence parties have committed to an "historic" deal over the future political status of...
Twyford praises NFIP lead, calls for inspired peace and regionalism
Asia Pacific Report
An opposition Labour Party MP today paid tribute to the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement, saying it should inspire Aotearoa...
NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition
Asia Pacific Report
Nuclear-free and independent Pacific advocates are treating Aucklanders to a lively week-long exhibition dedicated to the struggle for nuclear justice in the...
Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests...
Asia Pacific Report
A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for its “callous” attack of an environmental...
‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of...
From the prologue of the 40th anniversary edition of David Robie’s seminal book on the Rainbow Warrior’s last voyage, former New Zealand prime minister...
Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior...
Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...
By Aui'a Vaimaila Leatinu'u of PMN News
I didn’t know much about the surrounding context of the infamous Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years ago on...
Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing
TVNZ 1News
The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has sailed into Auckland to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior in...
Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow...
RNZ News Nights
Tomorrow marks 40 years since the bombing and sinking of the Rainbow Warrior -- a moment that changed the course of New...
Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy
Asia Pacific Report
A prominent academic has criticised the New Zealand coalition government for compromising the country's traditional commitment to upholding an international rules-based order...
How live TV technology changes have opened up remote areas of...
By Anish Chand in Suva
How Pacific live media communications have changed in the past 21 years.
In May 2004, the live broadcast of Ratu Sir...
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...