Tag: self-determination
‘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,...
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...
PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua
Pacific Media Watch in Brisbane
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their “deafening silence”...
Putting state terrorism in context – the Rainbow Warrior follies
By Jeremy Agar of CAFCA
Eyes of Fire is an updated version of the account of the 1985 sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, first published...
Tu Galala: Social Change in the Pacific (1992)
Edited by David Robie
"The Pacific is in upheaval -- growing poverty, nuclear testing, independence struggles, militarisation and massive social dislocation are pressing, often intractable...
Archive: Éloi Machoro knew his days were numbered
By David Robie in the New Zealand Times
Éloi Machoro was a marked man. Almost any day for the last few weeks could have been...