Flashback 1989: Rising storm in the Pacific
On 10 July 2023 -- marking the 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior -- Television New Zealand began broadcasting a BBC/Oxford Scientific...
Iconic peace researcher Owen Wilkes exposed global covert military activity and inspired NZ’s nuclear-free status
REVIEW: By Ken Mansell
The recent publication of a book of essays honouring the life of legendary New Zealand peace researcher and activist Owen Wilkes...
Rendezvous with the ‘no nukes’ Aneityum cover girl after 33 years
Dr David Robie was one of the resource speakers at a Teachers' Wānanga on teaching about the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement...
‘Voice of the Voiceless’: The Pacific Media Centre as a case study of academic and research advocacy and activism
By David Robie in the Okinawan Journal of Island Studies
For more than a decade, the pioneering Pacific Media Centre at Aotearoa’s Auckland University of...
Owen Wilkes: Exposing foreign militarism on the ‘backside of the earth’
By David Robie
When I first encountered Owen Wilkes it was at a range of 17,000 kilometres -- the distance between Auckland, Aotearoa, and Stockholm,...
‘Lots of information isn’t secret, it’s just hard to find’ – Nicky Hager on one of NZ’s most famous whistleblowers
By Nicky Hager, book chapter in Peacemonger
Whistleblower Owen Wilkes was a tireless and formidable researcher for the Pacific, peace and disarmament. Before the internet,...