2022 wrap: Pacific political upheavals eclipse fierce Tongan volcano
2022 PACIFIC REVIEW: By David Robie
The Pacific year started with a ferocious eruption and global tsunami in Tonga, but by the year’s end several...
A knife-edge election in Fiji sees power shift – and a chance to bring back real democracy
ANALYSIS: By Steven Ratuva, University of Canterbury
When the final election results were announced around 4pm on Sunday, many Fijians, at home and around the...
Yamin Kogoya: While West Papuans face an ‘existential threat’ under Indonesia, PNG plans defence pact with Jakarta
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya
“We are part of them and they are part of us,” declared politician Augustine Rapa, founder and president of the PNG...
The Doctrine of ‘Discovery’, Te Moana and the people’s fight for climate crisis action
Reviewed by Dr David Robie
As the editor, American-Kiwi anarchist, dissident and activist Valerie Morse notes in the preface to Peace Action, this practical treatise...
Yamin Kogoya: Happy West Papua Day – and the brutal truth about where we are now
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
On 30 June 2022, the Indonesian Parliament in Jakarta passed legislation to split West Papua into three more pieces.
The Papuan people’s...
‘Survival and truth’ – journalists in the Asia-Pacific
Asia Media Centre
Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two Asia-Pacific...