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Palestine protesters renew ‘don’t buy Israeli’ pledge, demand NZ sanction Israel

Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestine activists made strong pleas for stronger boycotts of Israeli products today and again demanded that the New Zealand government sanction Tel Aviv over its Gaza genocide. In...

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...

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...

PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua

Pacific Media Watch in Brisbane Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their “deafening silence”...

David Robie: A future in Pacific journalism in the age of ‘media phobia’

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2018: By David Robie Kia Ora Tatou and Ni Sa Bula, For many of you millennials, you’re graduating and entering a Brave New World...

Pacific media freedom under greater attack than ever

By Samisoni Pareti in Suva With the trial of three newspaper executives underway in Fiji in May on charges of sedition, the assault of a...

Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?

Pacific Media Watch Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -- this...

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...