Tag: Pasifika community

RNZ Pacific Opposition MPs and unions are criticising a proposal by New Zealand's Ministry of Pacific Peoples to cut staff by 40 percent. The country's largest...

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...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific youth and first time voters in Aotearoa New Zealand feel forgotten and ill equipped ahead of the election. Pasifika...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist A Pacific leader in New Zealand's South Island wants the future government to prioritise bridging the Pacific pay-gap. Reverend Alofa...

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist In the midst of all the destruction from Cyclone Gabrielle in Aotearoa New Zealand, Pasifika voices singing songs of...

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...

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 is celebrating 35 years on air this year. Former hosts Foufou Susana Hukui, Reverend Elder Maligi Evile and former researcher/reporter Iulia Leilua...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Pacific scholar and senior university sector leader Toeolesulusulu Dr Damon Salesa has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of Te Wānanga...

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...

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 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...

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...

RNZ Pacific Pacific health providers say a major New Zealand government funding boost is not just a recognition of the critical role they play in...

COMMENT: By Melani Anae When the Polynesian Panthers (PPP) activist group began calling for an apology for the Dawn Raids two years ago, we went...

By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ Pacific correspondent Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today offered a "formal and unreserved apology" to the Pacific communities left traumatised by the...

Pacific Media Network News The number and quality of Pacific journalists are expected to rise in a never before seen collaboration between four major New...