Archive: Commentary: The gag threat to Café Pacific
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-four
By David Robie
Judging by how the number...
Archive: Media: NZ journalists in Fiji work permit tangle
Two New Zealand journalism educators are still in suspense over their positions at the University of the South Pacific amid controversy over the "politicising"...
Archive: Controversial journalist to get USP post
Fiji's Sunday Post
Controversial New Zealander David Robie could be appointed to head the University of the South Pacific's growing journalism programme.
Some USP academics not...
Archive: A photographer’s date with a nuclear death
President Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. And...
Archive: Pacifications: The erosion of press freedom in Oceania
By David Robie in Arena Magazine
Abstract: Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion...
Archive: Crusading journalism in the blood from Edinburgh to Aotearoa [Profile]
"It's ironic that my work is published more outside New Zealand than it is here." (Article first published in 1992).
PROFILE: By Murray Horton
"My conception...