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Top 30 NZ news media you should follow this election and the Top 5 you should ignore – The Daily Blog

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor and publisher of The Daily Blog This New Zealand general election on November 7 has an enormous amount at stake. If this hard-right coalition government gets...

NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’ over Gaza genocide

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Four opposition party spokespeople today condemned the New Zealand coalition government’s...

Never again for anyone: Why the NZ Holocaust Centre shouldn’t be involved in developing a new curriculum

Rick Sahar, a former board member of the New Zealand Holocaust Centre, soldier in the IDF, and son...

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Some years ago when I headed the Pacific Media Centre...

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media

ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific...

Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR

Pacific Journalism Review Research on climate crisis as the new target for disinformation peddlers, governance and the media, China’s growing communication influence, and journalism training...

Solomon Star promised to ‘promote China’ in return for funding

By Bernadette Carreon and Aubrey Belford A major daily newspaper in Solomon Islands received nearly US$140,000 in funding from the Chinese government in return for...

Wenda accuses Jakarta of crackdown in response to Papuan MSG rallies

Asia Pacific Report Indonesia has stepped up its campaign of repression against West Papuans peacefully rallying for full membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG),...

Oppenheimer’s warning lives on: global laws, treaties fail to stop new arms race

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie J. Robert Oppenheimer — the great nuclear physicist, “father of the atomic bomb”, and now subject of a blockbuster biopic —...

France, Vanuatu agree to sort out ‘southern land’ border dispute

By Doddy Morris in Port Vila French President Emmanuel Macron and Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau have reached an agreement to settle the “land problem”...

CIVICUS protests to Marcos over ‘judicial harassment’, ‘terrorist’ label on human rights activists

Asia Pacific Report A global alliance of civil society organisations has protested to Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in an open letter over the...