Women MPs vital for PNG’s future, says campaigning Somare-Brash
RNZ Pacific
A female candidate in the Papua New Guinea elections believes it is more important than ever that the country has women MPs in...
‘I’m ready – energised,’ Port Moresby’s Parkop pledges to huge crowd
PNG Post-Courier
"Powes! Powes! Powes!" The city of Port Moresby was ringing with chants of support for its governor for the past 15 years --...
New Caledonia’s Frogier pulls out of French National Assembly race
RNZ News
A New Caledonian anti-independence candidate has withdrawn from the race for a seat in the French National Assembly just hours before nominations closed.
Vaea...
Reflections on Shireen Abu Akleh: Two assassinations, four funerals and no...
COMMENTARY: By Khaled Farraj
This is not a lament for Shireen, nor is it a political article. It is not a press report, nor is...
Dan McGarry: A new day in the Pacific – but will...
THE VILLAGE EXPLAINER: By Dan McGarry
With the Australian general election largely done and dusted, and with a clear (if still-to-be-quantified) mandate, Anthony Albanese faces...
Labor has a huge health agenda ahead of it. What policies...
ANALYSIS: By Stephen Duckett, The University of Melbourne
Labor’s win in Saturday’s election heralds real change in health policy. Although Labor had a small-target strategy,...
Takaparawhau occupation protest leader Joe Hawke dies
RNZ News
Joe Hawke -- the prominent kaumātua and activist who led the long-running Takaparawhau occupation at Auckland's Bastion Point in the late 1970s --...
Scott Morrison defeated – Labor to govern in minority or majority
SPECIAL REPORT: By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Morrison government has been resoundingly defeated in the Australian federal election, with Labor headed for office,...
Australians face their starkest choice at the ballot box in 50...
ANALYSIS: By Mark Kenny, Australian National University
You first have to lose an election on principle if you want to win one on principle.
This was...
Canberra must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in...
Policy failure over the last eight years -- including a massive cut to the ABC’s international funding -- has weakened Australia’s voice in the...
Pacific services receive $196m boost in NZ Budget – new RNZ...
RNZ Pacific
A total of NZ$196 million has been set aside for Pacific services in Aotearoa New Zealand in this year's Budget.
A big chunk of...
West Papuan students face ‘hardship and stress’ over scholarship loss
By George Heagney of Stuff
A group of students from West Papua, the Melanesian Pacific region in Indonesia, are fearful about their futures in New...
NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
More than two million New Zealanders will get a one-off $350 sweetener as part of the Budget's...
Pax Christi helps Papuan students stranded in NZ with $1000 grant...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A movement dedicated to peaceful self-determination among indigenous groups in the Pacific is the latest group in Aotearoa to add support...
New Caledonia’s pro-independence parties choose for French elections
RNZ Pacific
The pro-independence coalition parties of Kanaky New Caledonia have selected their candidates for the French Legislative elections next month.
Wali Wahetra from the Palika...
Pink tears for the Philippines, and transforming the rage into hope
COMMENTARY: By Nina Santos in Auckland
On May 9, the Philippines went to the polls in what has been called “by far the most divisive...
PNG has lost a ‘vibrant and visionary’ leader, says grand chief...
PNG Post-Courier
Governor-General Grand Chief Sir Bob Dadae has described Papua New Guinea's late Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil as a vibrant and visionary leader...
Memo MFAT, media and Mayor Foster, time to outgrow your Jewish...
COMMENTARY: Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices
When Marilyn Garson’s memoir of working in Gaza was published, Radio NZ scheduled an interview. On the day...
NZ covid deaths top 1000 with 9570 new community cases reported
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand has reported 9570 new community cases of covid-19 and a further 32 deaths today, bringing total publicly recorded deaths with...
Marape pledges ‘no stone unturned’ in investigation into fatal Basil crash
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea police have been tasked to furnish a full investigation report on the death of Deputy Prime...
Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t...
The global response to the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Video: Al Jazeera
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views
Nothing justifies the...
Kanak delegate warns France against ‘recolonising’ New Caledonia with a lie
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ French Pacific reporter
The Kanak people will not accept France's attempt to "recolonise" New Caledonia, a pro-independence delegate has told the...