Tag: decolonisation
‘Up to French people’ to decide on New Caledonia’s future, says academic
RNZ Pacific
An Australian-based French law professor says it is up to the French people as a whole, and not the voters in New Caledonia,...
The Doctrine of ‘Discovery’, Te Moana and the people’s fight for climate crisis action
Reviewed by Dr David Robie
As the editor, American-Kiwi anarchist, dissident and activist Valerie Morse notes in the preface to Peace Action, this practical treatise...
Thirty years later: David Robie and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
New Zealand journalist and media educator David Robie returns with two books commemorating the sinking of Greenpeace’s iconic campaign ship and the nuclear-free Pacific...
Investigative journalism covering failed states, distant empires and Pacific politics
Media International Australia/Pacific Media Watch
A leading international communications academic has described a recent book from the Pacific Media Centre as "investigative journalism at its...
Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific (1989)
By David Robie
"The South Pacific is no longer pacific. Nationalist struggles against colonialism, indigenous claims for sovereignty, and superpower rivalry have turned it into...