Articles

NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and rules of Parliament

BACKGROUNDER: By Lillian Hanly, Craig McCulloch and Te Manu Korihi Te Pāti Māori’s extraordinary display of protest — interrupting the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill — has highlighted...

Caitlin Johnstone: To be pro-Israel is to be pro-war

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The way raw video evidence debunked the “Amsterdam pogrom” narrative in real time in full...

The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series

ABC Radio Australia and RNZ You probably know about the last moments of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in...

Caitlin Johnstone: Biden’s legacy is genocide, war, and nuclear brinkmanship

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Biden’s legacy is genocide, war, and nuclear brinkmanship. That’s all anyone should talk about when...

Rising Tide climate crisis ‘Protestival’ to go ahead despite court ruling

The NSW Supreme Court has issued orders prohibiting a major climate protest that would blockade ships entering the...

Fiji academic warns over media ‘climate injustice’ in open access webinar

By David Robie A Fiji-based academic challenged the Pacific region’s media and policymakers today over climate crisis coverage, asking whether the discriminatory style of reporting...
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David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

By Mediasia Iafor New Zealand journalist and academic David Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than four decades. An advocate for...

Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw nerve in NZ

By David Robie Seven weeks ago the Philippines truth-telling martial law film Katips was basking in the limelight in the country’s national FAMAS academy movie...

Media and academia: the intriguing case of the Pacific Media Center

By David Robie Te Amokura: Pacific Media Centre (PMC) was founded at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in October 2007 at a time of great...

Murray Horton: The day the police came looking for a swifty Mr Gangster

By Murray Horton As I was having breakfast in my Christchurch suburban dining room on Monday morning, I heard a loud but indeterminate noise. I actually...

New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament siege: QAnon and how social media disinformation manufactured an ‘alternate reality’

By David Robie in Pacific Journalism Review Fires burned across Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament grounds, and violent clashes broke out between protesters and police on...