Politics

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 Press Freedom Index dossier online three days before World Press Freedom...

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this...

‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying...

‘We’re under attack!’ – the night the Israelis struck the Global Sumud Flotilla

SPECIAL REPORT:  By Eugene Doyle New Zealander Jay O’Connor had finished a long but satisfying day as a crew...

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats and court summons

By Khalia Strong of PMN News Fiji has shot up the world rankings for press freedom but the victory...

‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s new President Moetai Brotherson is in Paris for wide-ranging talks with the French government and the organisers of the 2024 Paris...

Hipkins grants Fiji $11m in climate crisis aid as Rabuka renews NZ links

By RNZ reporters and Rachael Nath of RNZ Pacific Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka was welcomed to the New Zealand Parliament yesterday while on his...

Climate crisis ‘greatest threat’ to Pacific regional security, says Vanuatu PM

By Hilaire Bule Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau says Pacific security is about the security of the Pacific peoples and their way of life as...

West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG

Asia Pacific Report The self-styled provisional government of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua “with the people” of the Melanesian region have declared political support...

French minister says FLNKS ‘willing to discuss’ election roll changes

By Walter Zweifel New Caledonia’s pro-independence parties are prepared to negotiate changes to the provincial electoral rolls, according to French Overseas Minister Gerald Darmanin. On his...

South Australia adopts draconian new law curbing peaceful climate protest

A bill introducing harsh penalties and extending the scope of a law applying to those who obstruct public places has been passed after an...