Tag: Pandemic
Time to get in quick for the fast looming deadline for...
Asia Pacific Report
Time is running out for media people and academics wanting to tell their innovative story or present research at the 2024 Pacific...
Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Surveillance and better vaccine coverage is needed to prevent another measles outbreak in the Pacific, says the World Health...
Australian student journos explore Fiji media landscape with USP team
Wansolwara News
The University of the South Pacific journalism programme is hosting a cohort student journalists from Australia's Queensland University of Technology this week.
Led by...
Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence
RNZ News
Former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson has defended Aotearoa New Zealand's public interest journalism fund that his government started during the covid-19 pandemic, after...
New Caledonia’s Backès resigns from French govt after losing Senate vote
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent
A prominent pro-France leader in New Caledonia, Sonia Backès, has resigned from the French government after a...
NZ election 2023: Raucous Northland debate crowd rails at covid, te...
By Peter de Graaf, RNZ News
Northland MP Willow-Jean Prime walked into the lion's den when she took part in an election debate in Kerikeri...
Hipkins warns NZ voters against ‘turning the clock back’ on reforms
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
Parliament has ended for another term, shutting down ahead of the Aotearoa New Zealand election campaign with...
Senior MSG official calls for Melanesia to remain neutral in geopolitical...
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific journalist in Port Vila
The Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat's Director-General, Leonard Louma, says the Pacific region continues to be the...
NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...
RNZ News
A GPs advocacy group says that practices learned from the covid-19 pandemic, like staying home when sick or wearing masks in health facilities,...
Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
The media sector in the Pacific should be supported with an enabling environment to...
King’s Birthday Honours: Former NZ leader Jacinda Ardern receives high accolade
By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has received one of the top accolades in today's King's Birthday...
Kanaky New Caledonia’s FLNKS wants ICJ advice on contested vote
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) says the advice of the International Court of Justice...
Tokelau covid: Two new cases announced as lockdown ends
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Tokelau's largest atoll, Nukunonu, is now out of lockdown after experiencing its first community cases of covid-19.
In a statement,...
Smaller covid waves in NZ, but still ‘major uncertainties’ – professor
RNZ News
New Zealand is in the grip of a fourth wave of covid but it is predicted to be smaller than previous mass outbreaks.
The...
Fiji’s economic summit addresses ‘daunting’ challenges, says Rabuka
By Viliame Tawanakoro in Suva
Fiji's Coalition government strongly believes that addressing the country’s priorities head-on is the cornerstone to building a progressive and prosperous...
Both sides ‘satisfied’ with Paris talks on New Caledonia’s political future
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
New Caledonia's rival pro- and anti-independence factions both say they are satisfied with the week of separate talks with...
‘Mask up’ – warns epidemiologist over NZ’s rising fourth wave...
RNZ News
Epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says Aotearoa New Zealand is experiencing its fourth wave of covid-19 infection and warns people to stay vigilant.
He said...
Rise in NZ disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
Unprecedented levels of disinformation will only get worse this election in Aotearoa New Zealand, but systems set...
Jacinda Ardern says goodbye to parliament – how her politics of...
ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, Massey University
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as prime minister in January was a courageous and pragmatic decision for herself, her family and...
Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory plea – ‘take politics out of climate change’
RNZ News
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has used her valedictory speech to Parliament to ask the House to take the politics out...
Jacinda Ardern’s legacy for NZ: Unique covid-19 strategy ‘saved many lives’
RNZ News
Jacinda Ardern will largely be remembered in Aotearoa New Zealand as the prime minister whose pandemic-era policies saved thousands of Kiwi lives, according...
‘Shameful wage stealing’ endemic at Australian universities, says report
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney
A National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) report claims that “wage theft has shamefully become an endemic part of universities’ business...