Politics

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 ever, the Pacific Islands Forum has betrayed one of its founding...

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...

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...

Global watchdog calls for ‘open’ probe into crimes against Gaza media as ceasefire agreed

Asia Pacific Report The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Egyptian, Palestinian and Israeli authorities to allow foreign journalists into Gaza in the...

Jonathan Cook: Dr Abu Safiya symbolised humanity in Gaza. Israel and the West are destroying it

Israel isn’t eradicating "the terrorists". It’s turning Gaza into a wasteland, a hellscape, where doctors no longer exist, aid workers are a memory, and...

Majed al-Zeer: Amid genocide, the tide is turning for Palestine but the fight is far from over

ANALYSIS: By Majed al-Zeer The suffering of the Palestinian people, which began with the Nakba and the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948,...

An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia over political critics

REVIEW: By David Robie Four months ago, a group of lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand called for a little reported inquiry into New Zealand spy...

Caitlin Johnstone: Biden administration finally declares that a genocide is happening – in Sudan

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Biden administration, which has been intimately complicit in the genocidal atrocities being perpetrated in Gaza for the last 15 months,...

Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024

COMMENTARY: By David Robie With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and hope for better things this year. Decolonisation...