Tag: Parliament

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, Massey University It has been a difficult time for senior public servants recently -- at least it has been for those...

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...

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato; Claire Breen, University of Waikato, and Valmaine Toki, University of Waikato The heated (and often confused) debate about...

ANALYSIS: By Richard Naidu Who’s broken the law? “Separation of powers” and all that stuff. Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum’s hour-long news conference on Saturday, January 21, seems mostly...

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva The opposition FijiFirst party still "seems to be confused" about the role of its general secretary Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, says prominent...

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva FijiFirst Party general secretary and former attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is no longer a Member of Fiji's Parliament, says Speaker Ratu...

RNZ Pacific The Governor of Oro province in Papua New Guinea, Gary Juffa, says Prime Minister James Marape encourages "honest debate" and discussion within his...

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva Former Supervisor of Elections Jon Apted says that the coalition formed by the  Social Democratic Liberal Party with the People’s...

RNZ Pacific The ruling FijiFirst party is refusing to concede the 2022 general election, saying it can only be called after the election of the...