Tag: Pasifika

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,...

RNZ Pacific Today marks 50 years to the day that six Pacific Islanders grouped together in central Auckland to form the Polynesian Panther Party. The party...

By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist In the New Zealand 2021 Budget, a big investment of NZ$108 million has been signalled to support the...

RNZ Mediawatch After 23 years with one political party and one prime minister in charge, Samoa’s general election last month delivered a surprise neck-and-neck result....

By Sri Krishnamurthi “No matter how we come to be in Fiji, or how long we have been here ...we all part of the...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

By Jean Bell, RNZ News journalist Some South Auckland locals are hitting back at online hate directed at the area and its Pasifika community,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...