Tag: Pasifika
A loss of ‘Fijian’ identity – or no identity at all...
By Sri Krishnamurthi
“No matter how we come to be in Fiji, or how long we have been here ...we all part of the...
Pacific students see mental health, living costs as election priorities
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist
Help with living costs while studying and extra support for mental health are two areas Pacific tertiary students want...
Whakapapa through portraiture – Taaniko Nordstrom talks to RNZ
By RNZ Saturday Morning
Former Air New Zealand cabin attendant Taaniko Nordstrom, and her sister-in-law Vienna Nordstrom, are the creative duo behind Soldiers Rd Portraits,...
Camille Nakhid: Covid-19, community prejudice and humanity in NZ
COMMENT: By Camille Nakhid
How racially prejudiced is Aotearoa New Zealand? Well, we saw just how racially prejudiced it is a weekend ago when a...
Youth MP speaks out against ‘unfair’ Pacific criteria in NZ education...
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Centre
A New Zealand youth MP Shaneel Lal is speaking out against education policies that exclude some Pacific Island...
Pacific doctor added to NZ covid testing advisory group
By RNZ Pacific
Auckland-based Fijian doctor Api Talemaitoga has been made a member of New Zealand's covid-19 Surveillance and Testing Strategy Group.
The doctor, who is...
Frontline Pasifika healthcare teams given $19.5m boost to fight covid-19
By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ One Pacific correspondent
Frontline Pasifika healthcare teams have been given a NZ$19.5 million funding boost in New Zealand as they work...
‘Covid-19 knows no ethnicity, so don’t stigmatise,’ says Komiti Pasefika
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist
A call has been made to members of the Pacific community in New Zealand to check on loved...
Teuila Fuatai: Vitriol harms Pasifika as much as the covid pandemic
COMMENT: By Teuila Fuatai
South Auckland and its communities, specifically Pasifika, are at the centre of New Zealand's current covid-19 cluster.
As a result, media coverage,...
South Auckland locals hit back against online hate around NZ covid...
By Jean Bell, RNZ News journalist
Some South Auckland locals are hitting back at online hate directed at the area and its Pasifika community,...
Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika?...
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent
Pasifika family or just an Auckland family?
There has been much debate over whether it was wrong to identify...
NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the...
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
After Australia’s misguided attempts at handing over $17.1 of Australian-made television content to the Pacific region last month...
Virus stress raises Pasifika community worries on illnesses, domestic violence
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of the Pacific Media Watch
When Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced extending the New Zealand lockdown to past ANZAC weekend,...
NZ’s canned Pasifika Festival a financial blow for stallholders
By Sela Jane Hopgood of RNZ Pacific
The cancellation of this year's New Zealand Pasifika Festival in Auckland because of coronavirus fears is expected to...
NZ hui urges local climate action to help Pacific Islands
By Ayla Miller
Pasifika people in New Zealand need to take charge against climate change which is already threatening their home islands, an Auckland hui...
Dawn Raids – Pasifika ‘liberated’ to talk about painful past
By Michael Andrew
An exhibition about the infamous Dawn Raids in the 1970s has opened in South Auckland, providing a window into a painful chapter...
Mediawatch: Broadcaster’s Pacific slurs on Newstalk ZB censured
By Colin Peacock of RNZ Mediawatch
Newstalk ZB broadcaster Heather du Plessis-Allan has been censured for Pacific Island slurs in a ruling that contains uncharacteristically...
Telling the real stories behind ‘plastic’ Pacific islanders and stereotypes
A look at the lives of Pacific Islanders who choose to ignore or struggle to embrace their heritage. Video: Plastic Polynesia trailer
By Leilani Sitagata
Two...
Dear Heather, we’re really talented, empowered – and we’re not leeches!
The Plantation Conversations video.
By Leilani Sitagata
Since media personality Heather Du Plessis-Allan’s “leech” comments late last month, some of New Zealand's Pasifika community have responded...
Peters announces NZ$10m boost to fund dedicated Pacific TV channel
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand will spend $NZ10 million in the next three years on a Pasifika television channel for the region.
The Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting...
PMC photojournalism book offers ‘window’ into Pacific culture, issues
Pacific Media Centre's 10th anniversary in pictures. Video: Kendall Hutt/PMC
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
The Pacific Media Centre kicked off its 10th anniversary celebrations last...
Pasifika voters want ‘hand-ups, not hand-outs’ in NZ housing crisis
By Kendall Hutt in Māngere
Pasifika voters in South Auckland have stressed they would like to see “hand-ups, not hand-outs” following New Zealand’s 2017 general...