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RNZ Pacific (formerly RNZI) provides comprehensive Pacific coverage with the very latest Pacific stories and an extensive online news archive. Podcasts, a live audio feed and on-demand programmes are also available.
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How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world's highest court. And won.
The UN's highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit climate change and provide restitution for harm caused, giving legal force to an idea that was hatched in a classroom in Port Vila.
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Drawing from memory: Auckland-based Tongan artist brings Pacific nostalgia to life
8 Aug 2025Auckland-based artist and animator Luca Tu'avao Walton is an emerging voice in the Pacific creative landscape, with a distinctive style rooted in memory, identity, and the 'nostalgia' of island life.
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Six years after referendum, Bougainville's quest for independence still faces roadblocks
8 Aug 2025As the Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville prepares to elect a new government, front and centre is the issue of independence.
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New Zealand can't talk about homelessness without tackling poverty, advocate says
12 Aug 2025In Aotearoa, a Pacific advocate for youth homelessness says the country must address poverty and systemic inequities to fix the housing affordability crisis.
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USPS apologises for mail routing errors causing delays to the CNMI
12 Aug 2025The US Postal Service has acknowledged routing errors caused chronic delays in mail delivery to the Northern Mariana Islands.
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Over 31 instances of polio in Papua New Guinea - WHO
12 Aug 2025In Papua New Guinea, more than 31 instances of polio have been detected since the disease reemerged earlier this year.
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Meet the Fiji female engineers making their mark in Marshall Islands
13 Aug 2025Women engineers from Fiji working for the Marshalls Energy Company in Majuro say their experience has been "transformative".
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Suspension of salary 'unjustified', Fiji's chief prosecutor Christopher Pryde says
13 Aug 2025Fiji's chief prosecutor claims the President's suspension of his FJ$250,000 salary is illegal and unjustified.
Presenters
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Christina Persico
Station: Pacific
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Don Wiseman
Station: Pacific
Programme: World & Pacific News
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IIiesa Tora
Station: Pacific
Programme: World & Pacific News
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Koroi Hawkins
Station: Pacific
Programme: Untold Pacific History
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Lydia Lewis
Station: Pacific
Programme: World & Pacific News
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Marama T-Pole
Stations: National
Programme: News
Programmes
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World & Pacific News
A bulletin of Pacific News and a sports report.
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Tagata o te Moana
A weekly Pacific magazine programme features New Zealand and regional Pacific news, issues, information and music. This programme is also simulcast domestically on RNZ National.
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News in Pacific Languages
Pacific language news bulletins in Tongan, Samoan, Pidgin, French, Cook Islands Maori and Niuean.
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Pacific Waves
A daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in…