PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua
Pacific Media Watch in Brisbane
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their “deafening silence”...
Iran’s great research adventurers – a talk with Issa Omidvar
By David Robie
They have been dubbed the “Persian Indiana Joneses”. Their adventures are fabled and hair-raising, as shown by a Jivaro shrunken human head...
Toxic smoke chokes region as Indonesian rainforests burn – David Robie on TRT
Asia Pacific Report
Thousands of forest fires have been burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, disrupting air travel, closing schools and sickening thousands of people,...
Pacific Media Watch – The Genesis
Reported and presented by Sri Krishnamurthi
“It’s a bit of a lighthouse” for vital regional news and information, says Alex Perrottet, a former contributing editor...
Talanoa: expanding millennial notions of a ‘Pacific way’ journalism education and media research culture
By David Robie
As critical issues such as climate change, exploited fisheries, declining human rights, and reconfiguration of political systems inherited at independence increasingly challenge...
Pacific media should ‘bear witness’ to human rights violations, says Robie
Human Rights and Social Development
A prominent journalist and founding director of Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, has shared his...