Tag: Australia

ANALYSIS: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific As geopolitical tensions increase in the Pacific region and numerous security alliances are rapidly forged, questions are being...

RNZ Digital reporters Sam Neill was New Zealand's biggest international film star, yet was a modest man who shied from the media spotlight. He has...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Despite advice from wiser heads, US President Donald Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth swallowed the bait from Israeli...

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific A group of former Pacific prime ministers, presidents and senior diplomats has warned that Pacific Islands countries are at...

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific China's test firing of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile into the South Pacific on Monday has added to unease in...

COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose On March 5 of this year, the United States launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from the Vandenberg Space Force...

In the great expanse of oceans, a number of small, remote islands are having their moment in the spotlight. From the Chagos islands to...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist New Zealand's government is increasingly eager to promote the buy-in of Pacific nations for closer Defence Force integration...

RNZ Pacific A female journalist in Tonga has been threatened at gunpoint following the broadcast of a news story about an Australian criminal deportee serving...

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle If Iran succeeds in extracting reparations for the damage done to it in the US-Israeli war, it will be a world...

Peace Movement Aotearoa "One can oppose a hateful regime and, at the same time, oppose an unjustified and dangerous military intervention," says Spanish Prime Minister...

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...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor The New Zealand government says it hopes an electrification aid project that was halted in Papua New Guinea...

Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of...

Asia Pacific Report A leading advocacy group supporting Palerstine has called on the government to follow Germany’s lead and suspend New Zealand military support for...

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter Opposition parties say Aotearoa New Zealand's government should be going much further, much faster in sanctioning Israel. Foreign Minister...

RNZ News The United States has denounced sanctions by Britain and allies -- including New Zealand and Australia -- against Israeli far-right ministers, saying they...

Pacific Media Watch To mark the release of the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) partnered with the agency The Good Company...

Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle 30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...

RNZ Pacific The Marshall Islands has become the 14th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) member state to join the South Pacific's nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament treaty. The...

Asia Pacific Report The Green Party has called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to rule out Aotearoa New Zealand joining the AUKUS military technical pact...

By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter Protesters have scaled the building of an international weapons company in Rolleston, Christchurch, in resistance to it establishing...