Opinion

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 today recalled the 1917 colonial “Balfour betrayal” and condemned it for...

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...

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...

Caitlin Johnstone: It was never about hostages. It was never about Hamas

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Benjamin Netanyahu said last Thursday that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his top priority, suggesting instead that defeating...

Too many journalists remain silent over the Gaza genocide, a threat to our media credibility

By David Robie on World Press Freedom Day 2025 I ask you now: Do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep...

50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to Trump

Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series. COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle 30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...

Caitlin Johnstone: All the worst evils are happening right out in the open

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Donald Trump is committing genocide for Israel after publicly admitting to being bought and owned by the Adelsons. All the worst shit...

The fall of Saigon 1975 – The Quiet Mutiny and US army falls apart

Part Two of the three-part Solidarity’s Vietnam War series: The folly of imperial war COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Vietnam is a lesson we should have...

The fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten

Part one of a three-part Solidarity series: On the courage to remember COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The first demonstration I ever went on was at the...