I was involved in stalled talks to free kidnapped NZ pilot in West Papua. What happens now?
ANALYSIS: By Damien Kingsbury
New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens has now been held hostage in West Papua for four months. Stalled attempts to negotiate his...
Gavin Ellis: Proof our newsrooms need a ‘second pair of eyes’
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
Own goals by two of our top news organisations last week raised a fundamental question: What has happened to their checking...
Slow down Simeon Brown – NZ bilingual traffic signs aren’t an accident waiting to happen
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw
When New Zealand’s opposition National Party’s transport spokesperson, Simeon Brown, questioned the logic of bilingual traffic signs, he seemed to echo...
Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea of Islands’?
By concerned citizens of the Pacific
The signing of the memorandum of understanding between the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor and president, Professor Pal...
Highly secretive Five Eyes alliance disrupts China-backed hacker group
ANALYSIS: By Dennis B. Desmond
This week the Five Eyes alliance — an intelligence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the...
Stan Grant stands up to racist abuse. Our research shows many diverse journalists have copped it too
ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Carlson, Faith Valencia-Forrester, Madi Day and Susan Forde
Stan Grant, a well-known Aboriginal journalist and soon-to-be former host of Q+A, has made...