Aftermath of Port Moresby looting, rioting – 14-day state of emergency
By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Fires from the 24-hour spate of looting, rioting and mayhem in Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby...
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail
Asia Pacific Report
South Africa has accused Israel of "genocidal intent" over its war on the besieged enclave Gaza Strip, and pleaded with judges at...
PNG’s Marape under pressure to resign as 6 MPs quit after...
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
A political crisis is starting to brew in Papua New Guinea as calls are made for Prime Minster James...
PM Marape summons troops after Port Moresby goes up in flames
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Soldiers and police were jointly patrolling the streets of the Papua New Guinea capital Port Moresby today as the...
At least 10 dead after looting, fires on Port Moresby’s ‘darkest...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent; Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist; and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
At least...
West Papuan call to boycott Indonesian elections and ‘reclaim sovereignty’
Asia Pacific Report
The pro-independence United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has declared a boycott of the Indonesian elections next month and has called...
This genocide is being live-streamed. We can’t say we didn’t know
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
How is anyone still talking about October 7? What Israel has done since October 7 is many times worse than what...
Looting breaks out in PNG capital during police and military strike
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Shops have been set on fire or looted in parts of Papua...
Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling...
The usually festive Christmas season in West Papua was marred by the death of beloved Papua Governor and Chief Lukas Enembe in an Indonesian...
Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after...
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our...
Former New Caledonia-based envoy appointed French President’s chief
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent
A former New Caledonia-based High Commissioner, Patrice Faure, has been appointed Chief-of-Staff of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Faure is...
Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists...
Pacific Media Watch
Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, has been killed along with another journalist in an Israeli air...
Why NZ should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Two years ago New Zealand joined 22 other countries in supporting the Ukrainian case against Russia at the International Court of...
Vale John Pilger, at times a near-lone voice for truth against...
OBITUARY: By Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman of Green Left
Sydney-born investigative journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger died on December 31, 2023.
He should be...
Pacific journalists are strong and ‘it’s up to us’, says honoured...
By Khalia Strong
Barbara Dreaver is a familiar face on Aotearoa New Zealand television screens, beloved to some, and feared by others who have been...
USP prepares Pacific communities to respond to climate change
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
Right across the South Pacific region, communities are no longer living on idyllic islands -- they are facing serious problems...
‘It’s tragic’ – Palau president slams NZ govt’s oil and gas...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
The President of Palau has slammed New Zealand's new government for its oil and gas exploration plans as the...
Why West Papuans are raising a banned independence flag across Australia,...
BACKGROUNDER: By Stefan Armbruster
On 1 December each year, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, a small group of West Papuan immigrants and refugees...
Nine editors double down in ‘tense’ war on Gaza editorial ban...
By Cam Wilson in Sydney
A senior Nine staff journalist has resigned and readers are angrily cancelling their newspaper subscriptions as Sydney Morning Herald and...
IFJ condemns deputy PM’s comments as threat to NZ press freedom
Pacific Media Watch
Journalists and media workers have criticised comments made by Aotearoa New Zealand's newly-elected Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters -- who claimed that...
Since the war on Gaza began, violence against Palestinians has surged...
ANALYSIS: By Tristan Dunning, University of Queensland, and Martin Kear, University of Sydney
While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks...
Peters has track record but NZ aid policy still hard to...
ANALYSIS: By Terence Wood
In the wake of New Zealand’s recent election, and subsequent coalition negotiations, Winston Peters has emerged as New Zealand’s Foreign Minister...