Analysis

Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal at hands of Israeli military

Asia Pacific Report An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian activists who arrived home today after their ordeal at the hands...

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims brutal abuse ‘justified’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Nadda Osman Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have...

Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded...

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international waters

Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it...

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World...

Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public is timely

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie The release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) this week is the final piece in...

Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to French ‘colonies’

ANALYSIS: By Ravindra Singh Prasad In a historic first visit to an independent Pacific state by a sitting French president, President Emmanuel Macron has denounced...

Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more progressive path?

ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards Cabinet Minister David Parker recently told The Spinoff he’s reading The Triumph of Injustice – how the wealthy avoid paying tax...

Yamin Kogoya: ‘Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future’ – culture and West Papua

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya “Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future” is the theme chosen by the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) for their 7th Melanesian...

Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality

RNZ Mediawatch Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released last Monday. However, some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on...

Israel’s arms and spyware: Used on Palestinians, sold to the world

Journalist and critic of Israeli apartheid Antony Loewenstein wrapped up his New Zealand tour with another damning address in Auckland last night but was...