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The Cree Indian motif – inspired by the mythology of the elderly woman "Eyes of Fire" and her vision for the future – painted on the original Rainbow Warrior smoke stack
Climate

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COMMENTARY: By David Robie, author of Eyes of Fire The legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific is unfinished business. From the 1997 disappearance of...
The Strait of Hormuz
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ANALYSIS: By Kevork Almassian When the Strait of Hormuz closes, you don’t need to be a military analyst to understand what just happened. You only...
Opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins (left) receives the Iran war petition from Greenpeace executive director Dr Russel Norman

Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)

An oil tanker docked at the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand

Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands

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Tavini’s historic leader Oscar Temaru (from left), French Polynesia’s current President Moetai Brotherson, and Tematai Le Gayic
Decolonisation

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By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia's ruling Tavini Huiraatira party has widened this week, pitting the leadership...
"I watched women weep for loved ones, denied the chance to mourn them"
Analysis

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US and Israeli officials invoking women's rights to push their war on Iran should look at their war in Gaza and at home before...
South African journalist Terry Bell

A Sydney protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran

Vanuatu investigative journalist and editor Dan McGarry

"Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf"

INSTITUTIONS

Tavini’s historic leader Oscar Temaru (from left), French Polynesia’s current President Moetai Brotherson, and Tematai Le Gayic
Decolonisation

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By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia's ruling Tavini Huiraatira party has widened this week, pitting the leadership...
"I watched women weep for loved ones, denied the chance to mourn them"
Analysis

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US and Israeli officials invoking women's rights to push their war on Iran should look at their war in Gaza and at home before...
Former Vanuatu Daily Post media director Dan McGarry

South African journalist Terry Bell

A Sydney protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran

Vanuatu investigative journalist and editor Dan McGarry

MEDIA

Tavini’s historic leader Oscar Temaru (from left), French Polynesia’s current President Moetai Brotherson, and Tematai Le Gayic
Decolonisation

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By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia's ruling Tavini Huiraatira party has widened this week, pitting the leadership...
"I watched women weep for loved ones, denied the chance to mourn them"
Analysis

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US and Israeli officials invoking women's rights to push their war on Iran should look at their war in Gaza and at home before...
Former Vanuatu Daily Post media director Dan McGarry

South African journalist Terry Bell

A Sydney protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran

Vanuatu investigative journalist and editor Dan McGarry

SPORTS

Vanuatu national women's football team playing Fiji last week in the FIFA 2027 World Cup Oceania Qualifiers
Culture

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By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu's only daily newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, is facing a ban on covering future football league matches after...
New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie
Cook Islands

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By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The All Blacks have their first coach of Pasifika heritage. Dave Rennie has been given the job, replacing the ousted...
Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters

Dumped All Blacks coach Scott Roberston

Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua

The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

An appeal advertisement for Jewish National Fund Australia
Asia Report

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The Labor government has told the Senate that Australian charities don’t have to comply with international law, nor will they be compelled. Michael West...
Papua New Guinea . . . on the "grey list"
Business

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By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea is under a close watch for money laundering, running a risk of being abandoned by global...
East Sepik Governor Allan Bird . . . similar risks to last year in this year's budget with overly optimistic revenue forecasts

NZ Defence Minister Judith Collins

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Fiji Trades Union Congress board member Daniel Urai (left) and Fiji Trade Union Congress national secretary Felix Anthony

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PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

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RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa has advised Samoa's head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can...
John Miller's photograph of the 1975 Land March held up in the same location at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke Wellington.

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RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...
Pacific Prana

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Asia Pacific Report An exhibition from Tara Arts International has been brought to The University of the South Pacific as part of the Pacific International...
Jubilant scenes at the end of FestPAC 2024

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RNZ Pacific The director of the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture Dr Aaron Sala says "it's up to all Pacific nations and their ancestors...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Gaza and Rocket Lab protesters on Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau's Queens Wharf
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report New Zealand protesters have again spotlighted the country’s stake in US space militarisation today and speakers branded Rocket Lab as an alleged...
Taiātea Symposium at Waitangi 2026
Cook Islands

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By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist As Waitangi Day commemorations continue drawing people from across Aotearoa and around the world to the Bay of...
Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga

Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

Protesters at an Auckland rally against Israel's genocidal two-year war on Gaza target alleged complicity by RocketLab and BlackSky

Pacific climate digital strategy for the International Court of Justice

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1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
Cook Islands

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RNZ Pacific The seventh narco sub in Pacific waters was discovered last week as the wave of methamphetamine becomes the latest crisis challenging the region. 1News...
Curse of Gold

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

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