Four people have died in New Caledonia amid escalating unrest, The Bougainville Constitutional Planning Commission is preparing to give Bougainvilleans living away from home a chance to have their say about the constitution, United Nations global plastics treaty disappointment, The Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika are chasing a top eight finish in the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific competition.

Pacific Waves 17 May 2024

News & Politics

Nick Hunt is a travel writer who has published three books about walking in various parts of Europe - Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water. In a recent essay, published in Noema Magazine, he explored pilgrimage through three stages which he classified as departure, initiation, and return. He said the latter is the most neglected yet is the most important. Nick joins Jim on Sunday Morning to discuss what travelling does to our souls.

Our souls travel at 3km/h

She might not own a dog, but that didn't stop Slate's Cleo Levin pondering why increasing numbers of dogs have been given "human" names.

Dogs with ‘human’ names: When did Fido become Charlie?

Long-running bid to make big tech pay for news hits a snag - so what happens next?; stories based on stats sliced from surveys; shock horror over incomplete houses.

Mediawatch for 2 June 2024

Monty Python's Eric Idle is bringing his show Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live! to New Zealand in October.

Eric Idle: Always looking on the bright side of life

Our quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back for another Sunday Morning quiz.

Pacific Waves 17 May 2024

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