Politics

Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week announced a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Attack and antisemitism. Andrew Brown weighs the evidence on Australia’s “antisemitism crisis” for Michael...

Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure from the Murdoch News...

New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their...

Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?

COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn...

Caitlin Johnstone: The US empire needs men like Trump

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone If you were wondering why the US establishment was so much more chill about Trump...

Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs reinstates native land lease policy

By Iliesa Tora and Kelvin Anthony Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs has endorsed the reinstatement of a lease distribution policy with the iTaukei Land Trust...

Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case

RNZ Pacific The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...

PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’

EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country? Papua New Guinea’s Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems...

Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list

Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of “non self-governing territories”, citing...

Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult

By Walter Zweifel New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process. Amid a dispute over...

Fiji President welcomes inclusive ‘new dawn’ for Great Council of Chiefs

By Iliesa Tora and Kelvin Anthony Chiefs are to serve people and not to be served, Fiji President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere told the Great Council...