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...

Archive: Fiji: The Internet Coup

By Jeremy Rose The Fijians have taken to calling them "parachute journalists". The reporters, that is, who drop in from around the globe to file...

Archive: Council considers what to do about coup leader with ‘fanatical streak’

By David Robie in Suva Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs is meeting at a military camp near Suva to decide how to respond to the...

Archive: Speight continues to hold cabinet hostage

By David Robie in Suva Civilian gunmen leader George Speight today defied mounting international condemnation of the kidnapping of Fiji's elected cabinet, claiming that his...

Archive: USP student coverage of the ‘internet coup’ in Fiji 2000

Crisis coverage by University of the South Pacific journalism students An archive of the exclusive University of the South Pacific journalism programme coverage of the...

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"...