Tag: Vaccination

By Conan Young , Local Democracy Reporting editor This year was another huge one for Local Democracy Reporting, with our reporters at the forefront of...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent One year on from Aotearoa New Zealand's longest covid-19 lockdown, an epidemiologist says further lockdowns cannot be ruled...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A family has been under house arrest in Tokelau for almost a year after they refused to get vaccinated...

ANALYSIS: By Ashwin Swaminathan, Australian National University It seems not a day goes by without learning someone in our inner circle of family, friends and...

By Charles Moi in Port Moresby Employees of the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) have challenged the legality of the “no jab, no job” policy...

By Carmella Gware in Lae Urban clinics in Papua New Guinea's second city Lae have closed for an indefinite period following attacks on health workers. Anti-vaxxers...

ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney Indonesia’s popular tourism islands of Bali opened for tourism last week, while Thailand announced that from November 1 vaccinated...

RNZ News The New Zealand government has set out a three-stage roadmap that gradually eases covid-19 restrictions in Auckland. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government...

RNZ News Parts of Waikato -- including Raglan, Huntly, Ngāruāwahia and Hamilton City -- will join Auckland in alert level 3 from midnight tonight, the...

COMMENTARY: By Ena Manuireva with Tony Fala In imperial and colonial contexts, dominant groups express their power in three ways: colonisation of the bodies of...

COMMENTARY: By Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama in Suva Fiji Islands Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is the current Chair of the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum. Addressing the...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Auckland Mayor Phil Goff has appealed to the 1.7 million people in the city to "roll up your sleeves" and get...

RNZ News New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the country may never find out the source of the current outbreak, while Prime...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist As with much of Indonesia, the country's easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua are struggling to contain the...