Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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CLIMATE CHANGE

Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga
Cook Islands

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By Caleb Fotheringham and Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific journalists Not enough is yet known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start...
USP student journalist Riya Bhagwan
Climate

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Pacific Media Watch A feature story authored by a student journalist highlighting the harm plastic pollution poses to human health in Fiji -- with risks...
Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

Tagaloa Cooper (left) and Lisa Tumahai

Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus

RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

FEATURES AND ANALYSIS

MULTIMEDIA

HUMAN RIGHTS

Israeli Channel 12 released a video showing soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian prisoner
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report The arrest of the former top lawyer in the Israeli military for the leak of a video showing Israeli soldiers assaulting a...
"Political trust has collapsed. Communities no longer view the decolonisation process as impartial"
Decolonisation

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Asia Pacific Report A People's Mission to Kanaky New Caledonia says the French Pacific territory remains in a fragile political and social transition nearly three...
No more kings?

Air New Zealand back flying to New Caledonia

The court ordered the Israeli government to present a clear position on its blockade

An UNRWA school in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing

INSTITUTIONS

The traditional NZ Census will be replaced with a combination of government data and smaller annual surveys
Civil Society

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By 'Alakihihifo Vailala, PMN News The Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) repeatedly warned its minister that replacing the traditional population-wide survey with administrative data would...
Israeli Channel 12 released a video showing soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian prisoner
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report The arrest of the former top lawyer in the Israeli military for the leak of a video showing Israeli soldiers assaulting a...
The average household in PNG was five people, according to the 2024 Census final figures

"Political trust has collapsed. Communities no longer view the decolonisation process as impartial"

No more kings?

Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga

MEDIA

The court ordered the Israeli government to present a clear position on its blockade
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Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it "regrets" the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to grant the Tel...
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel (left) with Destiny Church's Hannah Tamaki in Auckland
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COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Why is Aotearoa New Zealand aiding Israel in any way shape or form with a liaison...
USP student journalist Riya Bhagwan

"News organisations don't often end up in court for [defamation], but when they do it's big news."

Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad

We Used to Be Journos presenter Antoinette Lattouf talks to independent US journalist Chris Hedges

SPORTS

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
Civil Society

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By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, Iliesa Tora, and Christina Persico A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King's Birthday honours...
The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report A decision by the Broadcasting Standards Authority to uphold a complaint against a 1News broadcast last November is a warning to news...
In the wake of an ugly eruption of violence on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2024, the Western media coverage of the story was put under the microscope

An artist's impression of Quay Park stadium - Te Tōangaroa

Pride Marianas founder Roberto Santos

Israeli tennis player and ex-soldier Lina Glushko

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

NZ Defence Minister Judith Collins
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Asia Pacific Report New Zealand's major Palestine advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned Defence Minister Judith Collins for "dog-whistling to her...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
Democracy

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By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital/social lead Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has hinted that the country may "hold its first-ever referendum" following a landmark...
Fiji Trades Union Congress board member Daniel Urai (left) and Fiji Trade Union Congress national secretary Felix Anthony

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge

Ponsonby post office shop

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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

Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga
Cook Islands

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By Caleb Fotheringham and Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific journalists Not enough is yet known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start...
Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences
Decolonisation

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By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A Marshall Islands lawmaker has called on Pacific legislatures to establish and strengthen their...
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

It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge

China's BeiDou communications satellite

LATEST REVIEWS

Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad
Asia Report

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The New Arab A Palestinian horror film inspired by folklore is moving forward, with journalist and author Plestia Alaqad joining the cast alongside American-born Kuwaiti-Palestinian...
Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning

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