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Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists in the Gaza Strip as...

NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists

Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister...

21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Canberra will be expelling the Iranian ambassador...

Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media

Pacific Media Watch Three media commentators addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki...

A message to editors about Gaza: ‘Your euphemisms made the bullets easier to fire’

By David Robie Last Saturday, 16 August 2025, I spoke at this Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) rally in...

Archive: Poisoned Reign – bringing us up to date about ‘merciless’ France’s nuclear hostages in the Pacific

REVIEWS: By David Robie When it first appeared in 1977 under the title Moruroa, Mon Amour, the Danielsson's book was a damning indictment of French...

Archive: ‘A subversive in Kanaky’ – something out of a B-grade police movie?

French police and soldiers harassed and arrested Islands Business correspondent David Robie during an assignment in New Caledonia in January 1987. It was his...

Archive: Submarine from US, says Wilkes

By David Robie in the NZ Sunday Times Peace researcher Owen Wilkes claims the mystery submarine sighted in Cook Islands waters during February 1986 was...

Archive: Challenging Goliath – New Internationalist 1986

When Aotearoa (NZ) banned nuclear warships from its ports it was seen as David standing up to Washington's Goliath. But behind Prime Minister David...

Archive: Nuclear Exodus: The Rongelap Evacuation

By Chris Cooper, David Robie and Michael Fleck An independent video slide show developed from photographs in David Robie's photographic exhibition around the original Rainbow...

Archive: Gaston Flosse’s iron grip in Tahiti

Victory was complete. Gaston Flosse crushed all opposition at the polls. David Robie in Pape’ete asks how powerful can he become as France’s newly...