Analysis

Open letter to Fijians – ‘why is our country supporting Israel’s heinous crimes in Gaza?’

Pacific Media Watch The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network today condemned the Fiji government’s failure to stand up for international law and justice over the Israeli war on Gaza in...

Caitlin Johnstone: The Pope has died, and the Palestinian people have lost an important advocate

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Pope Francis has died after using his Easter Sunday address to call for peace in...

Caitlin Johnstone: ‘I want a death that the world will hear’  –  journalist assassinated by Israel for telling the truth

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel assassinated a photojournalist in Gaza in an airstrike targeting her family’s home on Wednesday,...

Ben Bohane: Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door

ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the...

John Hobbs: Why NZ govt should back Greens’ sanctions bill on Israel over Gaza genocide

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs In the absence of any measures taken by the New Zealand government to respond to...

David Robie: A future in Pacific journalism in the age of ‘media phobia’

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2018: By David Robie Kia Ora Tatou and Ni Sa Bula, For many of you millennials, you’re graduating and entering a Brave New World...

Flashback to the 1968 My Lai massacre: ‘Something dark and bloody’

By David Robie, originally published at Café Pacific blog The Melbourne Sunday Observer -- the original newspaper of that name which campaigned against Australian involvement...

Self-censorship in the Fiji media – Fijileaks reviews a timely book on coups, culture and criticism

By Victor Lal, founding editor-in-chief of Fijileaks Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem & Human Rights in the Pacific, in a sense, is a...

David Robie: Fiji, PNG lead betrayal, but still West Papuans triumph in 2015

COMMENTARY: By David Robie The Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders’ summit in Honiara this week must go down as the most shameful since the organisation...

Fiji’s media still struggling to regain ‘free and fair’ space

COMMENTARY: By David Robie Almost eight months after the much-heralded election to usher Fiji back into democracy mode, the country will mark World Press Freedom...

Shooting the messenger, Pacific style

Media freedom as an issue in the Pacific has been defined in far too narrow terms, as if Big Brother governments and politicians ignorant...