Tag: geopolitics
David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers
By Susana Suisuiki and Lydia Lewis
The New Zealand government needs to do more for its Pacific Island neighbours and stand up to nuclear powers,...
Phil Twyford: Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995
MP Phil Twyford's speech while opening the Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995 exhibition at the Ellen Melville Centre today.
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David Robie condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific
Asia Pacific Report
A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for its “callous” attack of an environmental...
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 key to defeating the Palestinian...
Ben Bohane: Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door
ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane
This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates...
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...