Tag: Health care
NZ election 2023: Overstayers issue kicks off Pacific communities debate
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist
The Pacific Election 2023 debate kicked off today with one of the most pressing issues for Pacific communties --...
NZ’s ‘no frills’ cost-of-living Budget centres on cheaper childcare
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ's deputy political editor
Young families are the clear target of Labour's election-year Budget, but its flagship promise - cheaper childcare -...
Personal beliefs ‘shouldn’t rob women of choice’, says Ardern on Roe...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade "incredibly upsetting" as New Zealand politicians reacted to...
UN report calls for independent probe into ‘shocking’ rights abuses in...
UN News
Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, say United Nations-appointed human rights experts who cite child killings, disappearances, torture...
NZ nurses and officials talk what next on negotiations after national...
RNZ News
New Zealand's nurses and midwives' union and district health boards (DHBs) will discuss where to from here after failed pay negotiations led to...
West Papuans send prayers for the recovery of Sir Michael Somare
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has sent prayers for the recovery of the former Prime Minister of...
PNG’s founding father Sir Michael Somare ‘critically ill’, says family
Asia Pacific Report
Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, widely regarded as the founding father of independent Papua New Guinea, was in a critical condition in...
Scott Waide: Let’s be honest! Nearly every PNG public health facility...
COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide
In Lae City, Papua New Guinea's second-largest city, there are seven urban clinics, each serving between 100 and 150 patients a...
Duterte holding bilateral talks with PNG prime minister O’Neill
By Rosalie Coz in Manila
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines was due to hold bilateral talks later today with Papua New Guinean Prime Minister...
Opposition PNG MP wins court phone reprieve for ‘at risk’ lives
EMTV News report on the National Information and Communications Technology Authority (NICTA) chief executive Charles Punaha claiming the agency would move against unregistered simcards...
Manus refugees ‘in the dark’ as healthcare provider pulls out
By Nick Baker of SBS News
The Australian government has been slammed for a lack of transparency amid news that the healthcare provider for refugees...