Tag: France in Pacific
Remembering Rainbow Warrior: How French President Mitterrand personally approved the attack on Greenpeace 20 years ago
Democracy Now!
Twenty years ago on 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French government agents and sunk in Auckland harbour,...
Archive: Fiji coup 2000: Guns and money [Profile]
The Fijian crisis is not about the rights of ordinary people, says veteran Pacific affairs journalist David Robie, it is about 'a Third World...
Archive: A photographer’s date with a nuclear death
President Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. And...
Archive: Crusading journalism in the blood from Edinburgh to Aotearoa [Profile]
"It's ironic that my work is published more outside New Zealand than it is here." (Article first published in 1992).
PROFILE: By Murray Horton
"My conception...
Archive: Poisoned Reign – bringing us up to date about ‘merciless’ France’s nuclear hostages in the Pacific
REVIEWS: By David Robie
When it first appeared in 1977 under the title Moruroa, Mon Amour, the Danielsson's book was a damning indictment of French...
Archive: ‘A subversive in Kanaky’ – something out of a B-grade police movie?
French police and soldiers harassed and arrested Islands Business correspondent David Robie during an assignment in New Caledonia in January 1987. It was his...