Tag: Community
NZ’s Hīkoi challenging controversial draft bill ‘redefines activism’, says Herald
Pacific Media Watch
As thousands take to the streets this week to "honour" the country's 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the largest daily newspaper New Zealand...
Fiji communities eager to meet ‘our PM’ Rabuka on NZ visit
RNZ Pacific
Members of Fijian communities in Auckland and Wellington are eager to meet Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka next week when he arrives on his...
Flash flood impacted Pasifika communities in NZ on alert
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
Many Pasifika families affected by the flash floods and torrential rainfall that have lashed New Zealand's North Island over...
Honouring the people’s fight against hardship, repression and racism
SPECIAL REPORT: By Tony Fala
Community organisers representing multiple Aotearoa struggles gathered at the Ponsonby Community Centre in Tāmaki Makaurau last Sunday to celebrate the...
NZ local elections: A Pacific mayor possible for biggest city Auckland?
By Jonty Dine, RNZ News reporter
The race for the Auckland mayoralty ends this weekend in the Aotearoa New Zealand local elections and polls indicate...
Love of social work propels Rotuma’s Rachael Mario into local elections
By Sri Krishnamurthi
Rachael Mario isn’t just any woman, she is special in that she hails from the idyllic South Pacific island of Rotuma.
And it...
‘Be responsible, honest and lead by example’ message for Fiji fathers
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Be responsible, righteous, honest, and lead by example.
That’s the advice from psychotherapist Selina Kuruleca to all fathers, as Fijians celebrate...
Parliament disruption: Growing calls for NZ protesters to go home
RNZ News
Many central Wellington shops face a crisis, university buildings have been closed for eight weeks and many report major disruptions from the illegal...
Muslim community to pray in private on anniversary of NZ attacks
RNZ News
Christchurch's Muslim community will today hold private prayers to remember the 51 people killed in the terror attacks on the Masjid Al-Noor and...
‘Covid-19 knows no ethnicity, so don’t stigmatise,’ says Komiti Pasefika
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist
A call has been made to members of the Pacific community in New Zealand to check on loved...
‘Don’t vilify covid cases’ warns PM as NZ reports nine more...
By RNZ News
New Zealand has today reported nine new cases of covid-19 in the community and two in the country's managed isolation and quarantine...
Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence
COMMENT: By David Robie
The silence from Facebook is deafening and disturbing.
At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over the...
PNG police minister uses social media to arrest alleged sex offender
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea’s Police Minister Bryan Kramer has used social media to arrest a man accused of sexually abusing his granddaughter.
Kramer...
‘Polynesian soul’ – schools, performers and diversity on show at Polyfest
Six stages, four days, 214 groups from more than 60 schools, 10,000 performers and up to 40,000 spectators ... The four-day festival of Māori,...