Analysis

Herzog backlash crushes Albo’s ‘social cohesion’ – thousands protest nationwide

SPECIAL REPORT: By Michael West and Stephanie Tran Amid revelations of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s association with Jeffrey Epstein, the Australian government and media have entirely lost control of the...

Herzog’s visit to Australia builds conflict not social cohesion

By Wendy Bacon On the eve of his Australian tour, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog faces huge opposition to his...

Jonathan Cook: The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth

COMMENTARY: By Jonathan Cook If you struggle to cope with the endless pressure to communicate in an ever-more connected...

French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Jason Brown Fast-paced electronic music pumps in the background as a rapid montage of moving images...

‘Journalism is not a crime’ – US journalists arrested for covering anti-ICE protest in church

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at the arrests of two American journalists for covering a...

France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia

ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week’s French Polynesia sitting of the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation...

West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya The Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have denounced the Rome Agreement of...

NZ election 2023: How a better funding model can help media strengthen social cohesion

This speech was this year’s David Beatson Memorial Address delivered at a Better Public Media meeting and debate in Grey Lynn last night on...

New Caledonia’s Backès resigns from French govt after losing Senate vote

ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre A prominent pro-France leader in New Caledonia, Sonia Backès, has resigned from the French government after a resounding defeat in France’s...

Media targeting public for a war with China, warns Declassified Australia

Pacific Media Watch Barely a day passes without a story in the British or Australian media that ramps up fear about the rulers in Beijing,...

Release of Victor Yeimo from Indonesian prison rekindles West Papuan fight against racism

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya Prominent West Papuan independence activist Victor Yeimo was yesterday released from prison in Jayapura, Indonesia’s occupied capital of West Papua,...