Tag: referendum
NZ referendum preliminary results – yes to euthanasia reform, no...
By RNZ News
The euthanasia referendum has passed New Zealand's public vote, with 65.2 percent voting in favour, but the cannabis question has 53.1 percent...
Kanaky New Caledonia could become ‘associated’ with France, says Wamytan
By RNZ Pacific
The president of New Caledonia's parliamentary Congress says the Pacific territory could become an independent state associated with France.
The suggestion was made...
Opponents scramble to avoid New Caledonia’s third referendum
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
A third referendum on independence from France looms in New Caledonia unless talks over the next six months satisfy...
Melanesian Spearhead Group still backs Kanak decolonisation agenda
By RNZ Pacific
The Melanesian Spearhead Group says it will continue to support the Kanak people in their quest for independence from France despite the...
French minister says New Caledonia referendum on track despite covid
By RNZ Pacific
France's new overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu says New Caledonia's restrictions over the covid-19 pandemic will not affect the preparations for the October...
FLNKS wants New Caledonia vote on independence delayed by two months
By RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement has asked Paris for the referendum on independence from France to be deferred by up to two...
Bougainville referendum on agenda during Marape’s state visit
By Gorothy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape will visit Australia this weekend for a week-long state visit and the...
Vanuatu plans first ever referendum over political reform laws
By Glenda Willie in Port Vila
Voters in Vanuatu will be given the opportunity to vote for political reform laws in the country’s first ever...
Benny Wenda: West Papuan people’s ballot petition handed over to UN
By Benny Wenda, chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua
As chairman of The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), I have...
Bangsamoro Islamic troops choose peace via historic Philippines vote
By Sofia Tomacruz in Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao
Battle-scarred they might be, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have faced their toughest campaign yet.
Armed with nothing but...
Kanaky independence campaign rolls on … encouraged by ballot result
David Robie, who reported from New Caledonia several times during the 1980s for Islands Business magazine, The Australian, New Zealand Times and other media,...
New Caledonia vote stirs painful memories – and a hopeful future
David Robie, who reported from New Caledonia during the 1980s for Islands Business magazine, The Australian, New Zealand Times and other media, returned to...
Gallery: Global media cover historic New Caledonia independence referendum
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 100 journalists covered the historic New Caledonian independence referendum last weekend, with media from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and...
MSG backing Kanak independence ‘on the quiet’, says campaigner
By RNZ Pacific
A leading New Caledonian pro-independence politician, Victor Tutugoro, says governments of Melanesian countries have quietly supported the New Caledonian independence cause.
Tutugoro, second...
New Caledonia blockade tension fails to mar French PM’s talks on...
By David Robie in Nouméa
French security forces moved in today to clean up the main road near an indigenous Kanak tribal area after a...
New Caledonia on brink of fateful decision – new nation or...
By Stefan Armbruster in Noumea
New Caledonia, a group of picturesque islands in Melanesia that are the closest neighbour to Australia and New Zealand, have...
Flashback to Kanaky in the 1980s – ‘Blood on their banner’
About 175,000 New Caledonians will vote on the future of their Pacific territory this Sunday—a status quo French-ruled New Caledonia, or an independent Kanaky...
Kanak independence struggle gains Maohi support as vote looms
By Nic Maclellan in Ponerihouen, New Caledonia
In a show of support for the Kanak independence movement, Maohi leader Oscar Manutahi Temaru has joined the...
USTKE fights for Kanak rights in defiance of ‘dishonest’ referendum
As New Caledonia’s November 4 referendum on independence approaches, both pro and anti-independence groups are ramping up their campaigns. But, as Michael Andrew reports,...
Only independence will appease Bougainvilleans, says Moses
By Patrick Makis
The people of Bougainville will only accept independence from Papua New Guinea and nothing else, says concerned Bougainvillean and independence hardliner Gabriel...
New Caledonia: Does the French public actually want to ‘set it...
Things may be coming to a head over the coming New Caledonia referendum, the independence struggle in New Zealand’s own region, but there is...
Decolonisation in New Caledonia – who decides the future?
In this second of three articles from Noumea, Dr Lee Duffield learns about multicultural Kanaky/New Caledonia and the events that led to their referendum...