Articles

Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists

As World Press Freedom Day rapidly approaches and Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Israeli government for its massacre of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine, New Zealand journalist David...

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific

Updated research has shown up lingering headaches over the impacts of decades-long nuclear testing in the Pacific islands...

Banners for Humanity stage powerful community MSF medical fundraiser event

SPECIAL REPORT: By Tony Fala Saturday, 18 April 2026, was a beautiful autumn day in Henderson, Tāmaki, Aotearoa, but...

Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘voracious predators’

By Anealla Safdar in London The heads of Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of...

South African activist praises World Court genocide case against Israel

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report A South African-born New Zealand critic of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing today...

David Robie – author, activist, journalist and media educator

Café Pacific Dr David Robie is a New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more...

Yamin Kogoya: Arrest of Papuan governor Enembe condemned as illegal Jakarta ‘kidnap’

ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya Following months of legal limbo and a health crisis, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was arrested this week by the country’s Corruption...

‘Up to French people’ to decide on New Caledonia’s future, says academic

RNZ Pacific An Australian-based French law professor says it is up to the French people as a whole, and not the voters in New Caledonia,...

Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood their homes and crops

ANALYSIS: By Merewalesi Yee, The University of Queensland; Annah Piggott-McKellar, Queensland University of Technology; Celia McMichael, The University of Melbourne, and Karen E McNamara,...

Paris court overturns statute of limitation in Tahiti corruption case

RNZ Pacific France’s highest court has revived French Polynesia’s largest corruption case, which had been closed almost more than three years ago. Eight people, including former...

Behind the News: Media freedom, public interest and The Fiji Times

By John Mitchell in Suva In any true democracy, the role of journalists and the media outlets they represent is to inform the people so...