Articles

Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and physical assaults for holding Pacific powers accountable. Now joining the Cook...

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

REVIEW: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report I have watched the most disturbing film in my lifetime...

A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival pending revolution’

This book launch speech was delivered today for Ponsonby People’s Union: At the Frontline of Community Activism in...

Palestinian researcher exposes Israel’s list of so-called ‘terrorist’ journalists slain in Gaza as smear

COMMENTARY: By Stephen Prager Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense...

France briefs UN on New Caledonia decolonisation impasse

By Walter Zweifel French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia. Controlled by France since 1853, New...

Blinken, Daki sign controversial US-PNG defence pact after day of protests

The National, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea yesterday intialled a defence cooperation agreement with the United States amid day-long protests against the signing by...

‘Two-way highway’ – PNG-US defence pact signed in spite of protests

By Lydia Lewis and Scott Waide in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says the increased United States security involvement in Papua...

The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this year’s referendum in...

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...

Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific

ANALYSIS: By Barbara Dreaver in Port Moresby When I was growing up in Kiribati, then known as the Gilbert Islands, New Zealand divers came to...