Church demands Timor-Leste faithful accept defrocking of accused priest
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Timorese Episcopal Conference has called on the entire Catholic community in Timor-Leste to accept and respect Pope Francis' decision to...
Shilo Kino: Your mana diminishes every time you switch on the...
COMMENT: By Shilo Kino
What were you doing during the foreshore and seabed hīkoi in 2004?
I wish I could say I was at the protest, gripping...
Hipkins denies NZ’s MIQ standards slipping after covid cases, illicit rendevous
By Katie Todd, RNZ News reporter
A wine delivery, a note penned on the back of a facemask and a 20-minute bedroom "encounter" have spelled...
PNG court rules police chief Manning can stay pending appeal
By Karo Jesse in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has stayed a court order nullifying the appointment of David Manning as Commissioner of...
‘Impose stricter quarantine measures’, epidemiologist tells NZ
By RNZ News
The New Zealand government should impose a week-long home quarantine for returnees after they have left managed isolation facilities to reduce the...
Scott Waide: Tangfu! Just another PX flight cancellation in Port Moresby
OPINION: By Scott Waide in Lae
Yesterday in Papua New Guinea, our Port Moresby-Madang flight got cancelled.
Minutes earlier, as we sat in the departure...
15 arrested at Jakarta parliament rally against Papuan special autonomy
By Adi Briantika in Jakarta
A group of Papuan students in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Jakarta, who were planning to...
NZ’s two new covid cases linked to South African strain in...
By RNZ News
The two new cases of covid-19 confirmed yesterday in New Zealand are the South African variant and initial results show they are...
Port Moresby hospital under strain with overcrowding, says doctor
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's biggest hospital is straining to provide medical services to the growing population of the capital Port...
State-sanctioned racism against West Papuans ‘shows Jakarta’s true agenda’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
More leading Indonesian figures have made racial slurs against Natalius Pigai, former chair of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM)...
We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts...
ANALYSIS: By Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, University of Melbourne
Among the many hard truths exposed by covid-19 is the huge disparity...
Michael Field: Murky background to Vanuatu’s Chinese fishing boat arrests
COMMENT: By Michael Field
Docked and under some kind of arrest in Port Vila, Vanuatu, are two Chinese flagged fishing boats, allegedly caught in unauthorised...
Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree?...
COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer, PNG's Minister of Police who has defended Commissioner Manning's appointment today in The National
My last article, announcing that I intend...
NZ covid: 14 close contacts of Northland case test negative
By RNZ News
New Zealand's Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has revealed that 14 close contacts of the Northland community case have returned negative test...
RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arbitrary and opaque experiments that Google is conducting with its search engine in Australia,...
PNG court orders police chief David Manning to vacate office
By Zedaiah Kanau in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Waigani National Court has ordered Police Commissioner David Manning to vacate the office by noon Friday...
Civil rights groups raise concerns about Jokowi’s next police chief
By Devina Halim in Jakarta
The Security sector Reform Coalition says there are three problems which need to be addressed when the sole candidate for...
NZ’s first community covid case since November travelled across Northland
By RNZ News
The latest community coronavirus case in New Zealand travelled across Northland before her positive test result, but was scrupulous about using the...
Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact
By RNZ Pacific
The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum has welcomed the re-entry of the United States to the Paris agreement over climate change.
Within...
To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a...
PNG police arrest Australian lawyer on K268m mining trust fund charges
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea police have arrested and charged prominent Australian lawyer Greg Sheppard on allegations related to funds belonging to a...
Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s...
ANALYSIS: By Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham
Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path
Two weeks after the storming of...