Tag: Ukraine invasion

By Mick Hall A leading peace campaigner is calling Aotearoa New Zealand’s decision to stay away from a peace event in Nagasaki paying tribute to...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto Two years ago New Zealand joined 22 other countries in supporting the Ukrainian case against Russia at the International Court of...

By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva In a keynote speech at the annual Pacific Update conference the region's major university, Fiji deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman...

External experts are poring over the "inappropriate editing" of international news published online by RNZ. It has already tightened editorial checks and stood down...

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis Own goals by two of our top news organisations last week raised a fundamental question: What has happened to their checking...

RNZ News The RNZ board is meeting tonight to begin setting up an independent review on how pro-Russian sentiment was inserted into a number of...

RNZ News RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson says the New Zealand public has been let down after pro-Russian sentiment was added to a number of...

RNZ News A Ukrainian man who complained about an RNZ story last year having Russian propaganda says his concerns are only now being noticed. It comes...

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer RNZ is investigating how online stories about the war in Ukraine, supplied by an international news agency, were...

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato One year to the day since Russian tanks ran over the Ukraine border -- and over the UN...

RNZ News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an address to New Zealand's Parliament today and the government has pledged an additional $3 million of humanitarian...

The new Reporters Without Borders campaign video about Russian's invasion propaganda. Video: RSF Pacific Media Watch As Russia’s propaganda and crackdown on journalism continue to wreak...

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato Since Jacinda Ardern described the state of world affairs as “bloody messy” earlier this year there have been...

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato Dominic Bryce Abelen has been described as a “warrior until the end”. He is also New Zealand’s first...

RNZ News Russia's foreign ministry has slapped New Zealand journalists, officials and an academic with sanctions for supporting what it called the country's "Russophobic agenda". The...

By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor More than two million New Zealanders will get a one-off $350 sweetener as part of the Budget's...

ANALYSIS: By Suze Wilson, Massey University and Toby Newstead, University of Tasmania The war in Ukraine would test even the most hardened political operator: millions...

By Anish Chand in Lautoka The seizure of a super yacht -- reportedly owned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch -- by the US government in...

By Anish Chand in Lautoka “We don’t do Russians.” This was the response from Fiji's Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete when asked about the...

RNZ News Commander of Joint Forces Jim Gilmour says he is confident New Zealand's Hercules fleet will be up to the task as 50 Defence...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The discovery of many civilian bodies lying dead in the Ukrainian city of Bucha this week has brought out more Western...

When Israel steals Palestinian land ... Image: imgflip.com COMMENTARY: By John Minto Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed so much hypocrisy in Aotearoa New Zealand and...