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ANALYSIS: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor As the Iwi Chairs Forum fought fruitlessly to keep Te Pāti Māori together last week, spokesperson Bayden Barber offered a warning: a split tōtara is only good for the fire. Now Te Pāti Māori finds itself in an inferno. The slow-burn conflagration in Aotearoa New Zealand| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report In an open letter released at the Belém Climate Summit, special envoys for strategic regions have expressed their support for the COP30 presidency and for all leaders committed to advancing climate crisis action. Former New Zealand prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern, the “voice” for Oceania, was among the seven climate envoys signing| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report A Pacific people’s mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a “profound sense of distrust” in the French state’s role in the decolonisation process, a new report released this week has revealed. “This scepticism, articulated by Kanak representatives, is rooted in the belief that France is not a neutral arbiter| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report New Zealand Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at West Auckland’s Te Pai Park today, celebrating successes of the BDS movement against apartheid Israel while condemning the failure of the country’s coalition government to impose sanctions against the pariah state. “They’ve done nothing,” said Neil Scott, secretary of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA), noting| Asia Pacific Report
A Gaza resident tells his story of the struggle to survive in Israel’s Gaza genocide today, “ceasefire” or not. SPECIAL REPORT: By Qasem Waleed El-Farra On October 19, Israel launched a barrage of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of people in a blatant violation of US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan, which had| Asia Pacific Report
RNZ News The current New Zealand government has a “Trumpian accent” that should be a red flag for the people, one of the world’s leading human rights voices says. Amnesty International secretary-general Agnès Callamard spoke this week on 30 with Guyon Espiner during her first official visit to New Zealand. Once a country that was| Asia Pacific Report
SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Inlakesh Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, through the use of paid and instructed propagandists to reshape the historical record. Zionists have also taken over social media platforms. Those who are critical of Israel are being censored or arrested. From YouTube to X, Wikipedia, and| Asia Pacific Report
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Newly appointed French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou has now rescheduled her first visit to New Caledonia, which was postponed last week due to urgent budget talks in Paris. In the latest version of her schedule for next week, Moutchou now has earmarked the date November| Asia Pacific Report
COMMENTARY: By Kasun Ubayasiri We are gathered here to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) National Media Section usually campaigns for journalists’ rights and industrial agency in Australia — but today, we join hands with the IFJ — International Federation of Journalists, the| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report More than 700 academics have this week sent an open letter demanding the university retirement savings scheme UniSaver immediately divest from companies directly linked to Israel and genocide. This latest letter, organised by University Workers for Palestine (UW4P), has been signed by 715 people – almost double the number of 400 staff| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report The arrest of the former top lawyer in the Israeli military for the leak of a video showing Israeli soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military prison has created a political and legal storm in Israel. The Israeli government is accusing Military Advocate-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalm of “blood libel” against| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report A People’s Mission to Kanaky New Caledonia says the French Pacific territory remains in a fragile political and social transition nearly three decades after the signing of the Nouméa Accord. It says the pro-independence unrest in May last year has “left visible scars” — not only in a damaged economy but in| Asia Pacific Report
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “The Past is not dead; it is not even past.” William Faulkner was right: past events continue to inform and shape our world. With powerful forces gathering to reassert US dominance over not just Venezuela but the entire Western hemisphere, the vexed issue of local elites, for example Venezuela’s Maria Corina| Asia Pacific Report
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it “regrets” the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to grant the Tel Aviv government 30 days to respond to a petition to allow journalists access to the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire. RSF said in a statement it believes the blockade on| Asia Pacific Report
ANALYSIS: By Sultan Barakat and Alison Phipps It has been more than two weeks since world leaders gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh and declared, once again, that the path to peace in the Middle East had been found. As with previous such declarations, the Palestinians, the people who must live that peace, were left out. Today,| Asia Pacific Report
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Why is Aotearoa New Zealand aiding Israel in any way shape or form with a liaison officer? NEWS ITEM: NZ Defence Force deploys liaison officer to Israel The NZ Defence Force has deployed a liaison officer to Israel, to help inform the government on next steps| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Today marks 108 years since the 1917 Balfour Declaration and New Zealand pro-Palestinian protest groups have condemned this infamous date in rallies across the country. “Britain promised a land that wasn’t theirs to give,” said Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) co-chair Maher Nazzal. “That single act of colonial arrogance set in motion| Asia Pacific Report
By Heather Devere of Asia Pacific Media Network November 5 marks the day that has been set aside to acknowledge Parihaka and the courageous and peaceful resistance of the people against the armed militia that invaded their village in 1881. This year, Parihaka will be the focus of an international conference held in New Plymouth| Asia Pacific Report
More than a quarter of Australia’s National Press Club sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf. Michelle Fahy reports. ANALYSIS: By Michelle Fahy The National Press Club of Australia lists 81 corporate sponsors on its website. Of those, 10 are multinational weapons manufacturers or military services corporations, and another| Asia Pacific Report
The New Arab Palestinian officials have accused Israel of using the issue of captive bodies in the Gaza Strip as a pretext to violate the ceasefire and prolong its military presence in the devastated territory. The officials said Israel was exploiting the matter to justify new attacks, stop aid entering the territory, and delay the| Asia Pacific Report
ANALYSIS: By Lamis Andoni The rift between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is real. However, to understand it, one must see it for what it is — not a clash of principles, but of priorities. Trump and the US establishment seek to expand the Abraham Accords, especially to bring Saudi| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report A national pro-Palestinian advocacy group has accused the New Zealand government of providing political cover and rewarding the Israeli genocide by deploying a “liaison officer” to the US-brokered peace plan for the besieged enclave. “It’s a knee-jerk reaction for New Zealand to send in the troops to the Middle East to back| Asia Pacific Report
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French MPs narrowly endorsed the postponement of New Caledonia’s provincial elections to no later than 28 June 2026 in a crucial vote in Paris this week. It comes as newly appointed Overseas Minister Naïma Moutchou prepares to visit the French Pacific territory for more talks on| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has challenged Defence Minister Judith Collins over her “can’t be trusted” backing for controversial BlackSky Technology satellite launches and called on the Prime Minister to withdraw approval. National co-chair John Minto today wrote to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon — who is currently in Korea for the| Asia Pacific Report
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A Marshall Islands lawmaker has called on Pacific legislatures to establish and strengthen their national human rights commissions to help address the region’s nuclear testing legacy. “Our people in the Marshall Islands carry voices of our lives that are shaped by this nuclear legacy,”| Asia Pacific Report
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin When the Pacific Islands Forum concluded in Honiara last month, leaders pledged regional unity under the motto “Iumi Tugeda” — “We are Together”. Eighteen Pacific heads of government reached agreements on climate resilience and nuclear-free oceans. They signed the Pacific Resilience Facility treaty and endorsed Australia’s proposal to jointly host the| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Middle East political analyst Zeidon Alkinani says Israel’s military is continuing “business as usual” to the east of the yellow line in Gaza in spite of the ceasefire deal. The military withdrew behind the yellow line as part of the ceasefire deal, while the government works to ensure “absolute gains” in the| Asia Pacific Report
The New Arab A Palestinian horror film inspired by folklore is moving forward, with journalist and author Plestia Alaqad joining the cast alongside American-born Kuwaiti-Palestinian journalist and media personality Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled The Visitor, the feature is written and directed by Palestinian-American filmmaker Rolla Selbak and produced by Black Poppy| Asia Pacific Report
Pacific Media Watch Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf on We Used To Be Journos to unpack his time in Australia, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media. The pair also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about — “how Western journalists are betraying their colleagues| Asia Pacific Report
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Structural limitations and dependency of the African university The post Academic Funding, Academic Publishing, and Academic Freedom: An African Conundrum appeared first on African Arguments.| African Arguments
By Jessica Wegener, Barry Williams, Jacqueline Gothe and Sarah Jane Jones. How can research effectively strengthen Indigenous leadership and incorporate respectful design to support Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination? We retrospectively reflected on our experience of working together in a project focused on land and fire management in a specific region in Australia, a project that ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
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The prevention of food, water, aid and critical infrastructure continues; the borders remain closed; and across the rest of Palestine, Israel’s brutal system of domination, apartheid and displacement continues.| Asia Pacific Report
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The Gaza, the one that existed on the morning of October 7 is gone, decimated by months of saturation bombing, shelling, bulldozing and controlled demolitions. All that was familiar when I worked in Gaza has vanished, transformed into an apocalyptic landscape of shattered concrete and rubble.| Asia Pacific Report
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Clara-Auguste Süß in Conversation with Manuel Borutta. This conversation explores the historical interconnections, dependencies, and violence linking the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean and how those have shaped social, political, and economic structures on both sides. It touches on the history of Mediterranean studies, struggles of decolonization today, and the role of scholars in the progress. Lastly, it looks at “the Mediterranean” as an analytical category and its ...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
Guest Entry by Poorti Dua Introduction Why do some nations become rich while others remain poor? Economists Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson claimed that it was because of institutions; the rules of the game that decide who is included and who is excluded from access to opportunities. But here lies a twist in the story. Whenever […]| Arthashastra
Guest entry by Shreya Narula “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every year, many ex-colonies celeb…| Arthashastra
Millions of women across the globe farm and look after land – yet are excluded from owning it, hurting their incomes, depriving them of wealth and undermining their other basic rights. Anandita Ghosh and Shivani Satija on a wide-ranging issue of the Oxfam-edited Gender and Development journal that not only examines structural obstacles to women owning land but also looks at broader themes, including the way deprivation of land rights adds to women’s care workload – and, crucially, how s...| frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk
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The colleagues of these Palestinian journalists in the Western press broadcast from the border fence with Gaza decked out in flak jackets and helmets, where they have as much chance of being hit by shrapnel or a bullet as being struck by an asteroid. They scurry like lemmings to briefings by Israeli officials. They are not only the enemies of truth, but also the enemies of journalists doing the real work of war reporting.| Asia Pacific Report
Israel is boosting its Zionist influence in the Pacific. Australia has exposed such media influence. The media in the Philippines is now under scrutiny. And Aotearoa New Zealand?| Asia Pacific Report
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This essay, on the debate over decolonising Shakespeare, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 23 March 2025, under the headline “Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice?” “My quarrel with the English language,” James Baldwin wrote in his essay Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare, had been “that the language reflected none of my experience.” And so “I condemned him as one of the authors and architects of my oppression...| Pandaemonium
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Two New Zealand Palestinians, Rana Hamida and Youssef Sammour, left Auckland today to join the massive new Global Sumud Flotilla determined to break Israel’s starvation blockade of the besieged enclave. Here, two journalists report on the Asia-Pacific stake in the initiative.| Asia Pacific Report
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French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls is once again in New Caledonia for a four-day visit aimed at maintaining dialogue, despite a strong rejection from a significant part of the pro-independence camp.| Asia Pacific Report
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If the development sector is serious about decolonisation, it must stop confusing optics with real, transformational change, argues Awssan Kamal.| From Poverty to Power
Many NGOs are now in danger of neglecting ethical communications as they chase desperately needed funds. But as Jess Crombie argues, ethical storytelling – or as she prefers 'equitable storytelling' – isn’t a ‘nice to have’, but rather one of the tactics that will help to raise the money to sustain delivery of aid.| From Poverty to Power
From themes of mythologised memories and ancestral resistance to decolonial archives, this year’s edition of the world’s biggest photography festival centres global narratives| 1854 Photography
Dr Zena Kamash FSA, Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Dept of Classics, Royal Holloway Zena.Kamash@rhul.ac.uk @ZenaKamash In 2019 I was invited to give the keynote lecture at the Theoretical Ro…| CUCD EDI
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New Zealand has joined 22 other countries and the European Union in calling for Israel to allow a full resumption of aid into Gaza immediately.| Asia Pacific Report
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In this paper the authors bring together two ongoing enquiries that are connected in a case study: firstly, how to teach experimental film practice and theory to students unfamiliar with this area,…| JUICE
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More than 180 remained in detention without a clear indication of when or if they would be released, the physicians’ report said.| Asia Pacific Report
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A rich family history of political struggle and personal responsibility, diverging paths and roads left untrod inform Thero Makepe's We Didn't Choose to be Born Here| 1854 Photography
