Flashback to the 1968 My Lai massacre: ‘Something dark and bloody’
By David Robie, originally published at Café Pacific blog
The Melbourne Sunday Observer -- the original newspaper of that name which campaigned against Australian involvement...
Rave hospitality, but Indonesia fails West Papua with media freedom hypocrisy
By David Robie in Jakarta
Indonesian hospitality was given a rave notice last week for hosting World Press Freedom Day 2017, but it was also...
Pacific media ought to bear witness to human rights violations, says David Robie
Pacific Community
Professor David Robie, a prominent journalist and director of Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, shared his experiences of human rights coverage...
Putting state terrorism in context – the Rainbow Warrior follies
By Jeremy Agar of CAFCA
Eyes of Fire is an updated version of the account of the 1985 sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, first published...
Mystery of the 1983 Vanuatu ‘nuclear free’ girl finally solved
By David Robie
So the mystery is finally over. In 1983, I took this photo below of a young ni-Vanuatu girl at a nuclear-free Pacific...
Setting the standard in student journalism: AUT University Pacific journalism students take on Fiji general election
Spasifik Magazine
After the Fiji military coup of 5 December 2006, caretaker Prime Minister Jona Senilagakali announced that elections would take place "hopefully in 12...