Tag: Elections

RNZ News New Zealand police are investigating after the home of Te Pāti Māori election candidate Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke was invaded, vandalised, and a threatening letter...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter The president of New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party Daniel Goa will not be prosecuted for alleged calls for violence...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog If there was one good outcome of the very one sided Fire & Fury, it’s that...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Cook Islanders go to the polls tomorrow to choose a new 24 member Parliament. Voters will have four parties...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A man was held by Papua New Guinean security personnel in Hela Province on Saturday after he was found...

By Theckla Gunga of Inside PNG Papua New Guineans, your future is in your hands, vote wisely. As the campaign trail wound up its last hours...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby On the eve of Papua New Guinea heading into its 2022 national general elections, the bearer of one of...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's policemen and women around the country have been ordered to arrest and charge anyone in possession...

By Bea Cupin in Manila Journalist and publisher Maria Ressa has called on tech and social media giants to practise “enlightened self-interest” amid a global...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Prime Minister James Marape has assured Papua New Guinea that the 2022 National General Election will go ahead as scheduled, reports...

By Soli Wilson in Apia Heavy rain early today failed to deter more than 1000 Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) supporters who gathered in front...

By Sina Retzlaff in Apia Samoa's Parliament will convene tomorrow as originally planned The Supreme Court has issued orders to uphold the original proclamation, dated 20...

By Lagi Keresoma in Apia Samoa's Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal by the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) against the Supreme Court’s ruling...

By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland US President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement is “fresh air” news for Pacific Islands countries, say...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Two former New Zealand prime ministers have called for an end to polarisation and the need for "healing" as the US...

ANALYSIS: By Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne Joe Biden is now poised to win the US presidency. The mail-in votes in Wisconsin and Michigan have...

ANALYSIS: By Selwyn Manning, editor of EveningReport.nz There is a mood circulating among some New Zealand circles that it would end badly for the Green...

ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw, Massey University; Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury; Jack Vowles, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Jennifer Curtin, and...

By RNZ News The Māori Party looks set to secure a place back in New Zealand's Parliament after three years out in the cold. Rawiri Waititi...

By RNZ News New Zealand's Labour leader Jacinda Ardern received a rapturous reception when she walked on stage at the Auckland Town Hall this evening. With...

By RNZ News New Zealand's Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern today spoke on national radio about why she should continue as prime minister on the...

By RNZ News The last opinion poll before Saturday's general election on Saturday last night put Labour on 46 percent and National on 31 percent....