Tag: Sovereignty
Temaru accuses Tahitian minister of libel over China seabed deal claim
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has accused the environment minister of defamation over seabed mining.
Last week, Environment Minister Heremoana Maamaatuaiahutapu claimed Temaru's...
Bougainville’s Toroama blasts Australia: ‘No foreigner will dictate outcome’
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama says Bougainville’s future as an independent sovereign nation is inevitable and nothing can change the...
Flags at half mast across the Pacific as leaders pay tribute...
RNZ Pacific
Flags are flying at half mast across the Pacific and leaders are paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died at Thursday at...
US tells Pacific leaders it will ‘deepen commitment’ to the region
RNZ Pacific
United States Vice-President Kamala Harris has assured Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting in the Fiji capital Suva that Washington will "significantly deepen" its...
FLNKS insists on full sovereignty for Kanaky New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) movement and five other small nationalist parties have agreed that they will only...
Gomes calls for ‘consensus’ in charting Kanaky New Caledonia’s future
RNZ Pacific
A New Caledonian member of the French National Assembly says a consensus needs to be found on Kanaky New Caledonia's future statute after...
Wenda blames nurse’s death on Indonesian military crackdown for Papuan mining,...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has blamed the Indonesian military over the attack at a hospital in Kiwirok, near...
Hawai’ian sovereignty activist and UH educator Haunani-Kay Trask dies at 71
By Mark Ladao in Honolulu
Dr Haunani-Kay Trask, a Hawai'ian leader and sovereignty activist with a distinguished career as an academic at the University of...
Iconic Tongan publisher Kalafi Moala eyes new digital media challenge
Tongan journalist, publisher and broadcaster Kalafi Moala talks to Pacific Media Watch project's Sri Krishnamurthi. Video: Sri Krishnamurthi/Blessen Tom
By Sri Krishnamurthi
After 30 years as...
Crown breached Crimes Act over ‘depoliticising’ Treaty of Waitangi
OPINION: By Steve Edwards
The New Zealand government’s ongoing failure to acknowledge that the British Crown did not gain sovereignty over New Zealand in 1840...
Barry Coates: The TPPA is dead. What next?
Barry Coates' speech in the New Zealand Parliament marking the end of the TPPA.
OPINION: By Barry Coates
There is a myth going around that President-elect...