Tag: history
Decolonisation tensions rise in New Caledonia as Kanaks accuse France of opposing ‘wind of history’
By Walter Zweifel
New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party has been told that France is “panicking” and afraid of losing New Caledonia.
The head of the Caledonian...
Crimes NZ: David Robie on the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
From RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
New Zealand established its credentials as an independent small nation after the fatal bombing of Greenpeace ship the Rainbow...
Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’
REVIEWS: David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review
When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe Bainimarama staged Fiji’s fourth “coup...
Conflict, Custom & Conscience: Photojournalism and the Pacific Media Centre (2017)
Edited by Jim Marbrook, Del Abcede, Natalie Robertson and David Robie
A group of Melanesian women march behind an anti-mining "NO BCL, NO MINING" banner,...
The insecurity legacy of the Rainbow Warrior Affair: A human rights transition from nuclear to climate-change refugees
By David Robie
State-backed terrorism as exemplified by the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the Amsterdam-registered flagship of the Greenpeace environmental movement, on 10 July...
The PMC project: independent journalism
Reported and presented by Alistar Kata
Alistar Kata, an award-winning journalist with Tagata Pasifika, made a 15 minute mini-documentary about the work of the Pacific...