Research

Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’

COMMENTARY: By Robert Reid The Enemy Within, by Maire Leadbeater is many things. It is: • A family history • A social history • A history of the left-wing in Aotearoa • A chilling...

Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true feminism’

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN...

Chris Hedges: The politics of cultural despair – and the American nightmare

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges In the end, the US election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with...

New survey finds an alarming tolerance for attacks on the press in the US – particularly among white, Republican men

ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti and Waqas Ejaz Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But political attacks on...

Caitlin Johnstone: The mainstream Western worldview pretends the Global South doesn’t exist

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Mainstream Western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist. The...

Archive: Frontline reporters: A students’ internet coup

By David Robie Hours after a mob attached Fiji Television and cut transmission for almost 48 hours, the University of the South Pacific pulled the...

Archive: Coup coup land: The press and the putsch in Fiji

By David Robie Abstract: On 19 May 2000, an insurrection led by failed businessman George Speight and seven renegade members of the élite 1st Meridian...

Community, demagogues and the South Pacific news media

By David Robie On 19 October 1995, the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea issued the terms of reference for a Constitutional Review Committee's (CRC) Subcommittee...

Pacific Journalism Review – a research and publication archive

Pacific Journalism Review The Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa is a peer-reviewed journal examining media issues and communication in the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia and...

Tu Galala: Social Change in the Pacific (1992)

Edited by David Robie "The Pacific is in upheaval -- growing poverty, nuclear testing, independence struggles, militarisation and massive social dislocation are pressing, often intractable...