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...

Remembering Rainbow Warrior: How French President Mitterrand personally approved the attack on Greenpeace 20 years ago

Democracy Now! Twenty years ago on 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French government agents and sunk in Auckland harbour,...

Rainbow Warrior: The Boat and the Bomb

By Greenpeace The Boat and the Bomb is a 2005 documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior...

The South Pacific round – a book on Pacific journalism pedagogy, politics and perils [Profile]

Citizens of the politically turbulent states that are New Zealand's neighbours deserve better news media. David McLoughlin talks to an old Pacific hand, David...

Wider media role in Pacific advocated by David Robie

By Angela Gregory Media in the Pacific Islands are neglecting a nation-building role that is critical to developing countries, says Pacific media author and educator...

Archive: David Robie’s Fiji legacy outlasts critics

By Mat Oakley, of Pacnews During his time at the University of the South Pacific, Journalism Coordinator David Robie endured numerous attacks from some senior...

Archive: Frontline reporters: A students’ internet coup

By David Robie Hours after a mob attached Fiji Television and cut transmission for almost 48 hours, the University of the South Pacific pulled the...