Politics

Fiji PM Rabuka blames ‘insulated’ upbringing for racially motivated 1987 coups

RNZ Pacific Sitiveni Rabuka, the instigator of Fiji’s coup culture, took to the witness stand for the first time today — fronting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Suva. The...

‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on

TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend...

Caitlin Johnstone: You don’t hate the mass media enough

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone There was another IDF massacre in Gaza on Saturday, reportedly killing dozens of Palestinians. Israel as...

Ramzy Baroud: Pathetic attempt to achieve by Gaza decree what US-Israel failed to gain through brute force

COMMENTARY: By Ramzy Baroud UNSC Resolution 2803 is unequivocally rejected. It is a direct contravention of international law itself,...

New Pacific Media journal launched with a focus on region’s challenges and geostrategic rivalries

Asia Pacific Media Network Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut this week with a collection...

Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?

Pacific Media Watch Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -- this...

Flashback to the 1968 My Lai massacre: ‘Something dark and bloody’

By David Robie, originally published at Café Pacific blog The Melbourne Sunday Observer -- the original newspaper of that name which campaigned against Australian involvement...

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...