Archive: Fiji coup 2000: Guns and money [Profile]
The Fijian crisis is not about the rights of ordinary people, says veteran Pacific affairs journalist David Robie, it is about 'a Third World...
Community, demagogues and the South Pacific news media
By David Robie
On 19 October 1995, the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea issued the terms of reference for a Constitutional Review Committee's (CRC) Subcommittee...
Archive: Pacifications: The erosion of press freedom in Oceania
By David Robie in Arena Magazine
Abstract: Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion...
Archive: Crusading journalism in the blood from Edinburgh to Aotearoa [Profile]
"It's ironic that my work is published more outside New Zealand than it is here." (Article first published in 1992).
PROFILE: By Murray Horton
"My conception...
Archive: Fiji 1987: ‘Sit down everybody. This is a takeover!’
Fiji: Countdown to a coup
ANALYSIS: By David Robie in New Outlook
Sakeasi Butadroka fingers his trademark blood-red bow-tie and laughs: "This represents the blood of...
Archive: Challenging Goliath – New Internationalist 1986
When Aotearoa (NZ) banned nuclear warships from its ports it was seen as David standing up to Washington's Goliath. But behind Prime Minister David...