Research

Māori identity is not a political access pass: Why the recent delegation to Israel demands accountability

ANALYSIS: By Raewyn Kapa The recent trip by a group of Māori individuals to Israel -- publicly framed as a “Māori delegation” -- has raised significant contention across Aotearoa and...

‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits back after Netanyahu’s attacks during UN speech

COMMENTARY: By Brett Wilkins New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has hit back after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Israel funded the lawfare assault on Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis

The Zionist Federation of Australia’s legal assault on Israel critic and journalist Mary Kostakidis was financed by the...

Pioneer of Palestine protest in NZ warns against the IDF ‘obscenity’ becoming normalised

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A pioneer of Palestine protest in Aotearoa New Zealand today warned...

Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

The Zionist Federation of Australia has withdrawn its case of “racial hatred” against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who...

AUT comms school denies sidelining Pacific Media Centre

RNZ Pacific Auckland University of Technology has denied claims that the Pacific Media Centre is being dumped or sidelined. The centre's recently retired director Professor David...

Melanesia: Facebook algorithms censor article about press freedom in West Papua

Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Facebook to restore an article that was censored for violating its rules on nudity and urges...

PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua

Pacific Media Watch in Brisbane Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their “deafening silence”...

Talanoa: expanding millennial notions of a ‘Pacific way’ journalism education and media research culture

By David Robie As critical issues such as climate change, exploited fisheries, declining human rights, and reconfiguration of political systems inherited at independence increasingly challenge...

David Robie: A future in Pacific journalism in the age of ‘media phobia’

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2018: By David Robie Kia Ora Tatou and Ni Sa Bula, For many of you millennials, you’re graduating and entering a Brave New World...

Asia Pacific Report: A New Zealand nonprofit journalism model for campus-based social justice media

By David Robie For 13 years (2007-2020), the Pacific Media Centre research and publication unit at Auckland University of Technology published journalism with an "activist"...