Politics

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...

Milne Bay governor explains secret meeting with notorious PNG gang

By Melyne Baroi in Port Moresby “I will surrender if you guarantee I will not be killed,” says Eugene Pakailasi, who took over leadership of...

PNG leader James Marape denies Papua human rights comments were his

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has backtracked on his comments that PNG had “no right to comment” on human rights abuses...

In the US, investigative journalists are blacklisted, ostracised and even jailed – in New Zealand, they are honoured

Nicky Hager received a major national award in New Zealand after having written a book exposing a secret spy base in New Zealand and...

NZ election 2023: ‘People power’ alliance wins pledge of 1000 new state houses a year

Asia Pacific Report Opposition National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis was among three political leaders who made a surprising commitment at a debate last night...

Benny Wenda stands down as head of West Papuan liberation group

RNZ Pacific The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has declared it will now base itself in the Pacific region after years of partial...

Indonesia responds after claim official attempted to bribe RNZ Pacific journalist

By Koroi Hawkins A Radio New Zealand journalist says an Indonesian government official attempted to bribe and intimidate him at last month’s 22nd Melanesian...