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...
Journalism education ‘truth’ challenges: An age of growing hate, intolerance and disinformation
By David Robie
This keynote commentary at the Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) conference with the theme Change, Adaptation and Culture: Media and...
Open season again for Indonesian military trolls and ‘fake news’ campaign on West Papua
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie
It is open season again for Indonesian trolls targeting Asia Pacific Report and other media with fake news and...
How the ‘voice of the voiceless’ kaupapa became derailed at the Pacific Media Centre
By David Robie, founding director of the Pacific Media Centre
It really is bizarre. After 26 months of wrangling, stakeholders’ representations and appeals by the...