Politics

Jonathan Cook: Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof

It isn’t Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Could...

Kāpū Tī with Antony: Confessions of a fringe City Centre local

By Antony Phillips in The Vertical For this edition of Kāpū Tī with Antony, I sit down with journalist...

Cry, my beloved New Zealand. Another Kiwi abandoned to the IDF

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle There was only one moment when I was interviewing him last week that Mousa Taher...

‘He’s Māori!’ Hāhona Ormsby – a New Zealander in the Israeli prison system nightmare

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle I interviewed several of the New Zealanders who, as members of the Global Sumud...

Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal at hands of Israeli military

Asia Pacific Report An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian...

Evening Report’s Selwyn Manning talks to David Robie on Rainbow Warrior

Selwyn Manning talks to David Robie Welcome to Evening Report. This Friday, July 10, marks 30 years since French DGSE operatives exploded two bombs destroying...

David Robie: Fiji, PNG lead betrayal, but still West Papuans triumph in 2015

COMMENTARY: By David Robie The Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders’ summit in Honiara this week must go down as the most shameful since the organisation...

Fiji’s media still struggling to regain ‘free and fair’ space

COMMENTARY: By David Robie Almost eight months after the much-heralded election to usher Fiji back into democracy mode, the country will mark World Press Freedom...

Investigative journalism covering failed states, distant empires and Pacific politics

Media International Australia/Pacific Media Watch A leading international communications academic has described a recent book from the Pacific Media Centre as "investigative journalism at its...

NZ students win top Ossie Award for 2014 Fijian election coverage

AUT University Coverage of the Fijian elections by three New Zealand postgraduate student journalists has been awarded a top prize at the annual Ossie Awards. Mads...

Behind the elusive mythmaking over Fiji, West Papua

By David Robie On the eve of a vital meeting in Port Vila planning a more unified stance over independence in West Papua by disparate...