Yearly Archives: 2016

From Vanuatu Daily Post By Jane Joshua and Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila Virgin Australia, has temporarily suspended its flights to Vanuatu over runway safety concerns...

From Pacific Media Centre Pasifika Renaissance, an NGO dedicated to Pacific oral histories, has appealed to groups documenting traditional knowledge to upload stories to their...

From Evening Report By New Zealand-based security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan Last week Fiji took delivery of a shipment of Russian weapons that were “donated” by...

Vanuatu Daily Post editorial today in response to the Vanuatu government attack over the newspaper exposing Port Vila's international airport safety issue. THE PRICE OF...

Pacific Media Centre By Losalini Bolatagici in Suva Fiji and other Pacific Island nations have been warned about the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The Secretariat of the Pacific...

From Pacific Media Watch Vanuatu’s caretaker government has attacked the Vanuatu Daily Post for an outspoken editorial in Wednesday’s edition, entitled “The price of politics”,...

From Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders has unveiled its new video campaign, War Reporters. Its release coincides with the publication of RSF’s 50th book...

From Pacific Media Watch By Leanne Jorari in Port Moresby After almost a year of negotiations, paired with several road bumps along the way, Media Niugini...

From Sputnik News The Russian Foreign Ministry has denied media reports alleging supplies of firearms and ammunition to the Pacific nation of Fiji were "secret",...

From Popular Resistance By Jason MacLeod This testimony was written in collaboration with Mama Tineke and Daniel Rayer, two West Papuan activists who survived the 1998...

From Indepth News By Shailendra Singh in Suva Discussions about the concept of "Global Citizenship" are gaining momentum in various international forums, but remain largely unexplored...

From Vanuatu Daily Post The president of the Graon mo Jastis Pati (GJP), Ralph Regenvanu, has called on local and foreign media organisations to be...

By Denise Yeo AUT’s Pacific Media Centre and Evening Report editor Selwyn Manning have teamed up to launch Asia Pacific Report, a news website that...

From Amnesty International Two members of Timor-Leste’s security forces visited the office of the human rights NGO Yayasan HAK this week and the police have...

From the Pacific Media Centre A short documentary by Alistar Kata In 2009, a short video was made by AUT television students John Pulu and Sophie...

From Vanuatu Daily Post By Len Garae in Port Vila Provisional successful candidate for North Ambae Alickson Vira has kept his promise in the Vanuatu snap...

From Human Rights Watch By Phelim Kine Time is running out for the beleaguered Ahmadiyah community on Bangka Island in Indonesia. Bangka Island’s top elected official, Tarmizi...

Report from Cinema Pasifika Cinema Pasifika is a new series of programmes showcasing short films from the Pacific Islands region being screened by Australia Plus...

Report from Evening Report By Selwyn Manning in Auckland New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay yesterday released the National Interest Analysis (NIA), a document tasked to...

Report from Pacific Media Watch A leading critic of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement last night showed off "Tim the dead rat" to rousing cheers,...

A 1988 John Pilger documentary, The Last Dream: Other People's Wars, looks at the complicated relationship that Australians have with war. A 2015 YouTube viewer's...

Refugees ... and Baltimore?