Articles

‘Emulate 1981’ Springbok tour solidarity over Palestine plea by South African activist

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A South African activist representing more than 200,000 shack dwellers has praised New Zealanders for their international solidarity against settler colonialism and...

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in Auckland’s downtown Te Komititanga Square...

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a blistering report on media complicity in war crimes as Israelis...

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report In what is probably one of its most shameful acts...

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...

Pacific Islands Forum shuns West Papuan issue

By David Robie The most astonishing unreported story in this week’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Auckland was a remarkable shift by the United Nations...

Pacific Media Centre focuses on reporting wars and dangers for journalists, aid workers

David Robie has played a key role in establishing the Pacific Media Centre as part of the Creative Industries Research Institute (CIRI) with a...

Indonesia’s Jawa Pos – a remarkable success story

By David Robie The publisher of all three major newspapers in West Papua is barely known in this part of the Pacific. Yet the Jawa...

No colonel of truth in Fiji

For a year, journalists in Fiji have had to live with censors posted in the newsroom. Now a new media decree threatens huge fines...

David Robie: Fiji media fights on for free press

By David Robie Editors, broadcasters and publishers are struggling to defend the last vestige of a free press in Fiji in the face of a...

Pacific Media Centre – a video profile

Pacific Media Centre Introducing some of the team and projects involved in the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology in Aotearoa New Zealand. Meet...