Articles

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 ever, the Pacific Islands Forum has betrayed one of its founding...

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...

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...

Aftermath of Port Moresby looting, rioting – 14-day state of emergency declared

By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Fires from the 24-hour spate of looting, rioting and mayhem in Papua New Guinea’s Port Moresby...

At least 10 dead after looting, fires on Port Moresby’s ‘darkest day’

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, Finau Fonua, and Kelvin Anthony At least 10 people are dead and dozens injured after 24 hours of...

Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’

The usually festive Christmas season in West Papua was marred by the death of beloved Papua Governor and Chief Lukas Enembe in an Indonesian...

Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings

By David Robie, editor of Café Pacific Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our times....

Why NZ should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

The International Court of Justice will today begin hearing oral arguments in the case filed by South Africa, invoking the Genocide Convention in the...

Vale John Pilger, at times a near-lone voice for truth against power

OBITUARY: By Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman of Green Left Sydney-born investigative journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger died on December 31, 2023. He should be...