Tag: climate crisis
Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024
COMMENTARY: By David Robie
With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and hope for better things this year.
Decolonisation...
COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit
By Sera Sefeti in Baku, Azerbaijan
As the curtain fell at the UN climate summit in Baku last Sunday, frustration and disappointment engulfed Pacific delegations...
Climate protests to continue despite 170 charged in Newcastle ‘protestival’
Despite Australia’s draconian anti-protest laws, the world’s biggest coal port was closed for four hours at the weekend with 170 protesters being charged —...
Rising Tide climate crisis ‘Protestival’ to go ahead despite court ruling
The NSW Supreme Court has issued orders prohibiting a major climate protest that would blockade ships entering the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle...
Great journalism overview of troubling politics and violence in the Pacific region
BOOK REVIEW: By Anna-Karina Hermkens
Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific is a sequel to two earlier published...
West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
West Papuan independence advocate Octovianus Mote is in Aotearoa New Zealand to win support...