Tag: Parliament
NZ election 2023: From ‘pebble in the shoe’ to future power...
ANALYSIS: By Annie Te One, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
In his maiden speech to Parliament in 2020, Te Pāti Māori co-leader...
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...
‘People suffering’ from lingering Vanuatu political impasse
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
People in Vanuatu believe politicians need to look beyond their own four walls and...
Vanuatu Supreme Court rules in favour of opposition in Parliament majority...
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific journalist in Port Vila and Christine Persico
The Vanuatu Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the opposition, which contested...
PNG opposition calls for emergency over Highlands naked body killings
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's opposition has called on Prime Minister James Marape to immediately recall Parliament to address the escalating killings in the upper...
Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more...
ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards
Cabinet Minister David Parker recently told The Spinoff he’s reading The Triumph of Injustice – how the wealthy avoid paying tax...
Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or...
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
Mister Speaker, our collective question without notice is to you mister Speaker. We want the Prime Minister and his deputy to take...
20 MPs walk out as PNG’s Tkatchenko apologises for ‘media trolls’...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The last time Papua New Guinea heard “there is a stranger in the House” was when two men walked...
Hipkins grants Fiji $11m in climate crisis aid as Rabuka renews...
By RNZ reporters and Rachael Nath of RNZ Pacific
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka was welcomed to the New Zealand Parliament yesterday while on his...
PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country?
Papua New Guinea's Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems...
The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this...
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this...
‘There must be clarity’ – PNG students protest over US defence...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
University students in Papua New Guinea are protesting against the signing of...
KASM claims government has ‘misled’ NZ over seabed mining bill
Asia Pacific Report
An advocacy group opposed to seabed mining has accused the government of "deliberately misinterpreting" a draft bill aimed at banning the industry...
‘Tears always fall’ – Cook Islanders remember their fallen Anzac heroes
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
In the early 1940s a young Sergeant Alexander Brown from Mangaia, Cook Islands, was killed in action.
"His siblings, all...
Long game: political activism for a public voice at Parliament
THE HOUSE: By Johnny Blades, journalist
If elected representatives have their work cut out for them to create the slightest social or political change through...
$889k-plus in Fiji taxpayer funds paid out to Vatis Communications
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Fiji’s Department of Information spent $889,234.84 in taxpayer funds to the Fiji-owned company Vatis Communications until its contract was terminated...
Historic day for Fiji journalism as ‘draconian’ media law scrapped
By Lydia Lewis and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific journalists
The Fiji Parliament has voted to "kill" a draconian media law in Suva today, sending newsrooms...
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...
Keeping the flow – the use of te reo Māori at...
By Johnny Blades, RNZ The House journalist
An increased appetite to learn te reo Māori among members and staff from different parts of the Parliamentary...
NZ has history of prominent public servants who were also outspoken...
ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, Massey University
It has been a difficult time for senior public servants recently -- at least it has been for those...
Former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama resigns from Parliament, vows to fight...
RNZ Pacific
Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has resigned from Parliament just two weeks after copping a three-year suspension for making seditious comments.
Bainimarama, who...