Tag: indigenous
Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood their homes and crops
ANALYSIS: By Merewalesi Yee, The University of Queensland; Annah Piggott-McKellar, Queensland University of Technology; Celia McMichael, The University of Melbourne, and Karen E McNamara,...
Showdown between two former coup leaders in fight for Fiji’s democracy
By Ravindra Singh Prasad in Suva
It is an ironic fact in Fiji, a multiethnic Pacific nation of under one million people, that coups don’t...
As Fiji prepares to vote, democracy could already be the loser
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
When Fijians elect a new Parliament on December 14, it is likely their votes will be counted fairly...
Yamin Kogoya: Happy West Papua Day – and the brutal truth about where we are now
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
On 30 June 2022, the Indonesian Parliament in Jakarta passed legislation to split West Papua into three more pieces.
The Papuan people’s...
Archive: Pacific media benchmark
REVIEW: By Murray Horton
It is a graphic illustration of corporate New Zealand's colonial mentality that our Eurocentric news media tell us all about the...
Archive: Fiji 1987: ‘Sit down everybody. This is a takeover!’
Fiji: Countdown to a coup
ANALYSIS: By David Robie in New Outlook
Sakeasi Butadroka fingers his trademark blood-red bow-tie and laughs: "This represents the blood of...