Tag: Australia
How Crikey stared down Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp but media freedom challenges remain
By Alexandra Wake
World Press Freedom Day is usually marked by stories of despair — worsening repression of voices, media outlets closed down, journalists locked...
Australians should be wary of scare stories about New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal
ANALYSIS: By Michael Belgrave
Australian Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s recent claim that Aotearoa New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal has veto powers over Parliament was met with...
Open letter to PM Albanese: Canberra must call on UN to ‘rectify breaches’ over West Papuan decolonisation
Café Pacific
An author and human rights advocate for West Papuan self-determination today sent an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the...
West Papuan rebels condemn NZ for ‘collusion’ with Indonesia, risks to hostage pilot safety
Jubi News in Jayapura
Captured pilot Philip Mehrtens has called on the Indonesian government to stop military operations in the Nduga highlands in a bid...
Less than illustrious: remembering the Anzacs means also not forgetting some committed war crimes
ANALYSIS: By Jeffrey McNeill
It was observed that the English had slain wounded and captured German prisoners.
So reads a disturbing war diary entry of...
Pacific needs to sit up and pay close attention to AUKUS, says Dame Meg Taylor
By Koroi Hawkins and Caleb Fotheringham
A Pacific elder and former secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum says Pacific leaders need to sit up and...