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Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and physical assaults for holding Pacific powers accountable. Now joining the Cook...

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

REVIEW: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report I have watched the most disturbing film in my lifetime...

A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival pending revolution’

This book launch speech was delivered today for Ponsonby People’s Union: At the Frontline of Community Activism in...

Palestinian researcher exposes Israel’s list of so-called ‘terrorist’ journalists slain in Gaza as smear

COMMENTARY: By Stephen Prager Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense...

Obituary: Tui Rererangi Walsh O’Sullivan, the ‘flying bird in the sky’

OBITUARY: By Dominic O’Sullivan Tui Rererangi Walsh O’Sullivan, 4 July 1940 — 20 May 2023 Kia ora koutau katoa. Kia ora mo o koutou haerenga i...

Additional budget funds earmarked for USP arrears, says Prasad

By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka The University of the South Pacific will be receiving additional funding from the Fiji government in the 2023-2024 national budget,...

NZ’s Media Freedom Council slams mayor Brown’s ban attempt as ‘insult to voters’

RNZ News New Zealand’s Media Freedom Council has called Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s exclusion of some media outlets from his budget speech today “unacceptable”. In an...

Duncan Graham: Compromise worked in Aceh – why not West Papua?

There are parallels between Indonesia’s Aceh where an Australian surfer faced a flogging, and West Papua where a New Zealand pilot may be facing...

2000 Fiji coup leader George Speight applies for presidential pardon

By Vijay Narayan in Suva Fiji’s 2000 coup leader George Speight, who has been serving time in prison for more than 20 years, has applied...

Claims of ‘issues, concerns and breaches’ emerge at USP

By Kelvin Anthony A leaked document authored by a recently recruited senior University of the South Pacific academic has again put a spotlight on the...