Tag: Pasifika

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Days after being condemned by the largest Pacific Island capital -- Port Moresby, the Economist's Global Liveability Index has been criticised...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Mariner Fagaiava-Muller, RNZ Pacific Journalist In New Zealand, youth climate change movement School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has declared itself as racist,...