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Phil Twyford: Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995

MP Phil Twyford's speech while opening the Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995 exhibition at the Ellen Melville Centre today. By Phil Twyford Kia ora tatou. I...

David Robie condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific

Asia Pacific Report A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for...

The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap

COMMENTARY:  By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret...

Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice for Gaza

By David Robie Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free...

Caitlin Johnstone: The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the West

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of Westerners happily being...

Archive: Fiji coup 2000: Guns and money [Profile]

The Fijian crisis is not about the rights of ordinary people, says veteran Pacific affairs journalist David Robie, it is about 'a Third World...

Archive: Fiji – why the media were also Speight’s hostages

Some reporters and news organisations were too ready to give legitimacy to George Speight's "two bit" rebellion. The Fiji print media in particular failed...

Fiji coup 2000: Protests over USP journalism website shutdown

Pacific Media Watch Journalism schools and media freedom groups have protested to the University of the South Pacific for suspending its Pacific Journalism Online website,...

Archive: University of the South Pacific shuts down journalism website

By Mithleshni Gurdayal Journalism students at the University of the South Pacific have expressed dismay over the forced shutdown of their website, Pacific Journalism Online...

Archive: Fiji: The Internet Coup

By Jeremy Rose The Fijians have taken to calling them "parachute journalists". The reporters, that is, who drop in from around the globe to file...

Archive: Commentary: The gag threat to Café Pacific

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-four By David Robie Judging by how the number...