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...
West Papua a media black spot
By David Robie and Alex Perrottet
The state of Pacific media freedom is fragile in the wake of serious setbacks, notably in Fiji, with...