Opinion

Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation

Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the...

Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week announced a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Attack and antisemitism....

Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure from the Murdoch News...

New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their...

Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?

COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn...

A surprising litmus test for Kanaky New Caledonia’s independence parties

ANALYSIS: By Denise Fisher The voters in the second round of France’s national elections last weekend staved off an expected shift to the far-right. But...

David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s Pacific Mornings

PMN Pacific Mornings A major conference on the state and future of Pacific media is taking place this week in Fiji. Dr David Robie, editor of...

Caitlin Johnstone: Julian Assange is free, but justice has not been done

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Julian Assange is free. He is en route to Australia after appearing in court in Saipan, capital of Northern Mariana Islands,...

PSNA puts New Zealand govt ‘on notice’ over breaches of Genocide Convention claim

Asia Pacific Report A pro-Palestinian advocacy group has put the New Zealand government “on notice” over its alleged complicity with Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza...

Graham Davis: Fiji coup culture – here we go again. More instability?

COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis The Fiji Times totally crossed the line today by using a convicted felon who took part in the 2000 coup to...

Buttu debunks Israeli ‘myths’ about Gaza siege – ‘vital to break it’

Kia Ora Gaza An international lawyer and former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Diana Buttu, says it is a myth that the siege...