Tag: Health crisis
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 --...
Despite what political leaders say, New Zealand’s health workforce is in...
ANALYSIS: By Paula Lorgelly, University of Auckland
Late last month, New Zealand Health Minister Andrew Little stated what most who work in health already know.
Healthcare...
Millions of Filipinos troop to the polls to decide Duterte’s successor
Rappler's Livestream coverage of the elections.
By Dwight de Leon in Manila
The Philippines will decide today the successor to President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang as...
Auckland hospitals put most care on hold, incentives fail to fix...
RNZ News
An Auckland nurse says a lucrative incentive payment has not fixed the city's dire hospital staffing shortage in Aotearoa New Zealand's current covid-19...
TVNZ’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver wins Voyager media awards
Pacific Media Watch
Television New Zealand's journalists have come out on top at the annual Voyager Media Awards last night, scooping a number of awards...
PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report
The Samoa Observer media freedom video, Journalism Without Fear or Favour.
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinea's two daily newspapers...
Jakarta’s poor at risk as city drags feet on Covid-19 social...
By Sausan Atika in Jakarta
The sluggish delivery of crucial social assistance funds by Indonesia's capital Jakarta administration in response to the Covid-19 outbreak is...
Pacific governments ‘working better’ with creative media in pandemic
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
Pacific governments across the region have put side their differences with media and are working alongside them in...
What are the lessons with Covid-19? Seeing the ironies through a...
OPINION: By Scott Waide in Lae
So it’s a global pandemic with 16,000+ dead already, more than 375,000 infected and nearly 102,000 recovered.
It was a...
Scientists call for media sobriety amid Covid-19 fake news ‘infodemic’
By Dr Crispin Maslog in Manila
As fake news on Covid-19 spreads faster than the virus, scientists call for a halt to the "infodemic".
As China...