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Never again for anyone: Why the NZ Holocaust Centre shouldn’t be involved in developing a new curriculum

Rick Sahar, a former board member of the New Zealand Holocaust Centre, soldier in the IDF, and son of concentration camp survivors had me on his Alternative Jewish Voices...

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Some years ago when I headed the Pacific Media Centre...

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media

ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific...

Palestine protesters told they are ‘rainbow people’ of hope after 150 weeks of Gaza protest

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Palestine protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand celebrated an unprecedented 150 weeks...

Britain’s Big Brother state is already here – we just don’t realise it yet

While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or “Israel haters”, the UK state is...

Macron to ditch Noumea Accord for self-determination and impose new statute for New Caledonia

By Eleisha Foon French president Emmanuel Macron says he will forge ahead with processing a new statute for New Caledonia, replacing the 1998 Noumea Accord. New...

Macron urges Kanaky New Caledonia ‘compatriots’ to chart united path

RNZ Pacific French President Emmanuel Macron has urged New Caledonia to forge a common future after the most recent “no” independence vote. During his visit to...

Yamin Kogoya: ‘Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future’ – culture and West Papua

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya “Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future” is the theme chosen by the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) for their 7th Melanesian...

Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality

RNZ Mediawatch Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released last Monday. However, some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on...

John Minto: Kudos to Jane Campion for saying no to apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival

By John Minto Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) congratulates New Zealand film director Jane Campion over her request for her 1989 debut film Sweetie to...

Flashback 1989: Rising storm in the Pacific

On 10 July 2023 -- marking the 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior -- Television New Zealand began broadcasting a BBC/Oxford Scientific...