Tag: Ethnicity
Iwi leaders warn Hipkins not to bow over Three Waters co-governance
By Jamie Tahana, RNZ News Te Ao Māori journalist at Waitangi, and Russell Palmer, digital political journalist
Iwi leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand have accused opposition...
FijiFirst condemned over ‘politics of fear’ aimed at voters
By Shayal Devi in Suva
The "politics of fear" pervading Fiji must go away, says National Federation Party (NFP) candidate Agni Deo Singh.
The former general...
The Fiji Times: Professor Lal’s life leaves many lessons to appreciate...
EDITORIAL: By The Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
I couldn’t help but be drawn to the constant flow of emotions that came in the wake...
Steven Ratuva becomes world’s first Pacific distinguished professor
Tagata Pasifika
Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva is the first Pacific person ever to be promoted to the highest professorial status of distinguished professor.
The award-winning Fiji-born...
Richard Naidu: The Fawlty Towers government – everything they touch...
By Richard Naidu in Suva
In my household, the 1970s BBC comedy Fawlty Towers is on regular repeat for family entertainment.
Only two years ago it...
Ziena Jalil: Why ticking the diversity boxes keeps missing the mark
COMMENT: By Ziena Jalil
Diversity was in the spotlight last week. Te Wiki o te Reo Māori and Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori were embraced...
Camille Nakhid: Covid-19, community prejudice and humanity in NZ
COMMENT: By Camille Nakhid
How racially prejudiced is Aotearoa New Zealand? Well, we saw just how racially prejudiced it is a weekend ago when a...
Youth MP speaks out against ‘unfair’ Pacific criteria in NZ education...
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Centre
A New Zealand youth MP Shaneel Lal is speaking out against education policies that exclude some Pacific Island...
‘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...
Contribution by Pacific community more than money, says academic
By Rahul Bhattarai
The Pacific community has contributed immensely to New Zealand's economy - but that isn't the only contribution, says a leading development studies...
Bainimarama attacks opposition ‘lies’ for promoting Fiji ethnic hatred
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji's prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama has again hit out at opposition parties, calling them liars and accusing them of sowing division in...
Pat Walsh: Ahok is innocent — Indonesia needs him and renewed...
ANALYSIS: By Pat Walsh
The recent sentencing of Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, the Christian Chinese-Indonesian Governor of Jakarta, to two years in jail for blasphemy...
Where are you from? Hold that question and give us a...
Where are you from? This simple question, as harmless as it may be intended, is loaded with controversial assumptions of race, ethnicity and a...
Dame Susan Devoy: We have a choice on how our media...
New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy gave this opening address at the Ethnic Communities Engagement Summit at Auckland University of Technology at...
Images: Ethnic communities engage – let’s develop and grow
Organisers were delighted with the success of the first of three national Ethnic Communities Engagement summit in Auckland on Saturday - and the role...
Mainstream NZ media takes pasting at multicultural summit
Mainstream New Zealand news media were heavily criticised for "misrepresentations, sensationalism and exclusions" at the first of three national summits in Auckland today aimed...
‘Invisible’ Pacific, indigenous presence at UN disappoints NZ team
By TJ Aumua
Six of the Auckland participants who attended the UN Commission of the Status of Women held in New York in March have...
