Politics

Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum

Asia Pacific Report A new documentary film on the devastating “ecocide” happening in West Papua will be screened as a world premiere at a weekend solidarity forum in Auckland Tāmaki...

Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster

It’s only Day Five of the war, but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the...

12 reasons why a huge split is opening up in the West over US-Israel’s ‘manifestly illegal’ war on Iran

ANALYSIS: By Nury Vittachi The West is in turmoil over countries’ top legal minds declaring the US-Israel attack on...

Eugene Doyle: Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald Trump

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle When I heard the terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than...

NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau today were highly...

‘We’re not primitives’ says UPNG student protest over foreign minister’s ‘disrespect’

By Scott Waide Students at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) marched to Parliament House in in the capital Port Moresby today in protest...

Resign call to PNG’s foreign minister over his ‘primitive animals’ slur

By Caleb Fotheringham Papua New Guinea’s opposition has called on Foreign Affairs Minister Justin Tkatchenko to resign after calling critics of his trip to London...

Why Israel’s violent Gaza strategy to divide Palestinian resistance will fail

ANALYSIS: By Mohsen Abu Ramadan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest assault on Gaza is a well-worn strategy among Israeli politicians to manufacture unity during...

Amnesty International calls on Jakarta to free West Papuan activist Victor Yeimo

RNZ Pacific Amnesty International is calling on Indonesia to release West Papua National Committee (KNPB) international spokesperson Victor Yeimo. Yeimo was sentenced on Friday to eight...

PNG foreign minister defends daughter over ‘flaunting’ coronation trip video

ABC PACIFIC BEAT: By Marian Faa and Belinda Kora Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister has vehemently defended his daughter against a furious backlash to a...

‘Decolonisation must continue’, says Kanak independence campaigner

By Walter Zweifel France has been warned against attempts to abandon the New Caledonian decolonisation process pursued for more than two decades. A veteran independence campaigner,...