The insecurity legacy of the Rainbow Warrior Affair: A human rights transition from nuclear to climate-change refugees
By David Robie
State-backed terrorism as exemplified by the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the Amsterdam-registered flagship of the Greenpeace environmental movement, on 10 July...
Ban the bomb – how NZ’s ordinary ‘Davids’ checked the nuclear Goliath
OFF THE WALL: with Padre James Bhagwan in Suva
As we conclude the month of June 2017, it would be remiss of me not to...
Rave hospitality, but Indonesia fails West Papua with media freedom hypocrisy
By David Robie in Jakarta
Indonesian hospitality was given a rave notice last week for hosting World Press Freedom Day 2017, but it was also...
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...
Rendezvous with the ‘nuclear free’ Vanuatu cover girl after 33 years
By David Robie on Aneityum, Vanuatu
She had the most enchanting smile, even though she had lost her baby teeth. Her toothless grin turned out...
‘That day I saw the power of media, and how it can be tragic’
By DAVID ROBIE
Surprising that a conference involving some of the brightest minds in journalism education from around the world should be ignored by New...