Tag: Pasifika
FestPAC 2024: Delegates wrap up with standing ovation for Kanaky, Vanuatu...
RNZ Pacific
The director of the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture Dr Aaron Sala says "it's up to all Pacific nations and their ancestors...
Melanesians gathering for ‘unique’ NZ cultural event to celebrate identity
By Tiana Haxton, RNZ News journalist
Melanesians all across Aotearoa are coming together in Auckland this weekend to celebrate their unique cultural heritage.
This is the...
Lack of Pasifika MPs and ‘no voice’ in new NZ govt...
By Lydia Lewis and Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalists
Pacific leaders fear they will have little or no voice in the new National-led government in...
After more than 30 years fighting Dawn Raids practices, Soane Foliaki...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A Tongan RSE worker, whose case sparked an independent review of Immigration New Zealand's "out-of-hours compliance visit" practices, is...
RNZ launches new initiative to tell stories of Asian communities in...
RNZ News
From today readers of rnz.co.nz will see a change to the home page, and a new initiative to tell the stories of Aotearoa...
‘Dawn raid’ tactics still happening despite NZ government apology
RNZ Pacific
The New Zealand government is investigating the case of a Pasifika overstayer who was detained after a dawn raid in South Auckland last...
Flash flood impacted Pasifika communities in NZ on alert
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
Many Pasifika families affected by the flash floods and torrential rainfall that have lashed New Zealand's North Island over...
‘This is for you’ – 24 Pasifika New Year’s honours recipients...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Jan Kohout, RNZ journalist
Twenty four Pacific peoples have been recognised in the 2023 New Year's honours.
A former...
Women number more than half of NZ journalists, but ‘troubled by...
Massey University News
Women now make up well over half of New Zealand’s journalism workforce, but they have serious concerns about their safety on the...
NZ communities gather in unity for He Whenua Taurikura Hui on...
By Jonty Dine, RNZ News reporter
The widow of the final victim in the 2019 terrorist attack says things have not improved for New Zealand...
‘Calm’ health advocate among 18 Pasifika recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Eleisha Foon, journalist
Pacific health advocate and champion Dr Collin Fonotau Tukuitonga heads the list of Pacific recipients...
Tagata Pasifika celebrates 35 years on air – a pan-Pacific voice...
Tagata Pasifika is celebrating 35 years on air this year. Former hosts Foufou Susana Hukui, Reverend Elder Maligi Evile and former researcher/reporter Iulia Leilua...
Pasifika communities in NZ reach ‘key vaccination milestones’
RNZ Pacific
Ninety percent of Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand have had their first covid-19 vaccine, while 11 district health boards (DHBs) have reached...
‘Transform lives’ with education, new vice-chancellor for AUT tells Pasifika
RNZ Pacific
The new vice-chancellor of the Auckland University of Technology is calling on young Pasifika peoples pursuing their education to stay the course.
Toeolesulusulu Dr...
‘Covid-19 is on the doorstep of your houses,’ warns Henare...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare today thanked all Māori providers, iwi, hapū, practitioners, vaccinators and district health board (DHB) staff for...
Risk of ‘unequal outbreak’ hurting Māori, Pasifika, says top NZ epidemiologist
RNZ News
Epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says his biggest concern is that the spread of the delta variant of covid-19 in New Zealand is an...
Effective NZ vaccination campaigns ‘must include’ Māori, Pacific leaders
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ health correspondent
The calls for New Zealanders to get vaccinated are becoming more urgent by the day as covid-19 embeds itself...
Thousands of youth get jab at NZ Pasifika community event
RNZ Pacific
A youth-led Pasifika mass vaccination event in Auckland has immunised 7000 people over the past four days.
Pacific health provider South Seas' youth group...
Pacific National Radio Trust welcomes public funding boost for Pasifika journalism
Pacific Media Network News
National Pacific Radio Trust has won a year's funding from NZ On Air’s Public Interest Journalism Fund to enhance its reporting...
Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Pasifika local government politician in New Zealand, the first from Kiribati to be elected to political office, has appealed to...
Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Māori political leader has branded opposition neoliberal ACT leader David Seymour's act this week undermining an indigenous response to New...
Trevor Richards: How about an apology from NZ Rugby?
COMMENTARY: By Trevor Richards
Apologies have been in the news recently.
Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron told "French" Polynesia (Ma'ohi Nui) that French nuclear testing...