Politics

‘Emulate 1981’ Springbok tour solidarity over Palestine plea by South African activist

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A South African activist representing more than 200,000 shack dwellers has praised New Zealanders for their international solidarity against settler colonialism and...

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in Auckland’s downtown Te Komititanga Square...

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a blistering report on media complicity in war crimes as Israelis...

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report In what is probably one of its most shameful acts...

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...

No colonel of truth in Fiji

For a year, journalists in Fiji have had to live with censors posted in the newsroom. Now a new media decree threatens huge fines...

David Robie: Fiji media fights on for free press

By David Robie Editors, broadcasters and publishers are struggling to defend the last vestige of a free press in Fiji in the face of a...

Reporting from the Pacific front line

By Andrea Malcolm Journalists covering the South Pacific face new challenges, as tensions heighten, environmental issues take precedence and economic activity increases. "A decade-long civil war...

John Pilger: The ghosts of Indonesia won’t lie

East Timor's history is repeating itself as Jakarta colludes with the West to crush another resource-rich land -- West Papua. The world is watching...

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...