Research

Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Ōtautahi and Ava Mulla in Cairo Hope for freedom for Palestinians remains high among a group of trauma-struck New Zealanders in Cairo. In spite of...

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you cannot assassinate your way to peace

ANALYSIS: By Matt Fitzpatrick In the late 1960s, the prevailing opinion among Israeli Shin Bet intelligence officers was that...

The story of the journalist on the Rainbow Warrior’s last voyage, David Robie

In April 2025, several of the Greenpeace crew visited Matauri Bay, Northland, the final resting place of the...

Is genocide the new normal? Could Israel and the US destroy Iran?

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Just do it, before it is too late,” US President Donald Trump said. The Western media...

Caitlin Johnstone: We are, of course, being lied to about Iran

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Iran and Israel are at war, with the US already intimately involved and likely to...

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...