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...
Setting the standard in student journalism: AUT University Pacific journalism students take on Fiji general election
Spasifik Magazine
After the Fiji military coup of 5 December 2006, caretaker Prime Minister Jona Senilagakali announced that elections would take place "hopefully in 12...
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face – book review and interview with David Robie by David Blackall
Book review and interview with the author David Robie by David Blackall
Introduction
David Robie’s latest book is incisive and autobiographical. Kalafi Moala, a courageous publisher...