Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’
REVIEWS: David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review
When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe Bainimarama staged Fiji’s fourth “coup...
Ban the bomb – how NZ’s ordinary ‘Davids’ checked the nuclear Goliath
OFF THE WALL: with Padre James Bhagwan in Suva
As we conclude the month of June 2017, it would be remiss of me not to...
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...
Self-censorship in the Fiji media – Fijileaks reviews a timely book on coups, culture and criticism
By Victor Lal, founding editor-in-chief of Fijileaks
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem & Human Rights in the Pacific, in a sense, is a...
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...
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...