Monthly Archives: December 2017

OPINION: By Sister Barbara Cameron When I read last week of the detention of a young Palestinian teenage girl, 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi, dragged from her...

OPINION: By Murray Horton The Aotearoa Independence Movement (AIM) congratulates Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for explicitly defying President Trump's bullying in relation to New Zealand's...

By Aloysius Laukai in Buka The President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government, Chief Dr John Momis, has announced an indefinite moratorium on exploration and mining...

ANALYSIS: By Robyn J. Whitaker in Melbourne I might be about to ruin your Christmas. Sorry. But the reality is those nativity plays in which...

Al Jazeera's Priyanka Gupta explains how the background and history of Jerusalem have shaped the UN vote. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Australia and...

By Rieka Rahadiana and Yudith Ho in Jakarta Indonesia is set to lose its first and only female constitutional justice, whose term is up...

By Scott Waide in Lae In 2007 when Digicel entered the PNG market, Papua New Guineans realised how much in unnecessary charges they had been...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk West Papuan students have demonstrated to reject Indonesia’s occupation and were joined by an unprecedented wave of solidarity from people across...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Two journalists from Timor-Leste will benefit from the Balibo Five-Roger East Fellowship in 2018, an initiative of the Media, Entertainment and...

Al Jazeera's Neave Barker reports from London. Video: Al Jazeera/RSF Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Reporters Without Borders has documented the number of journalists killed or jailed...

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News ‘Akilisi Pōhiva, 76, has been elected by a majority of Members of Parliament to become Tonga’s Prime Minister for...

By Bambang Muryanto in Yogyakarta Indonesia's National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has demanded that state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I consider human...

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Independent filmmakers fear a slow erosion of Māori and Pacific content at Television New Zealand has begun. Their fears have emerged...

By Pia Ranada in Manila President Rodrigo Duterte says he will consider nationwide martial law if the New People's Army steps up attacks. When asked if...

By Walter Zweifel of RNZ Pacific It's 20 years today since French Polynesian journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud vanished. "JPK", as he was widely known, left no trace,...

By Dr Christina Ho in Sydney Half of all race-related opinion pieces in the Australian mainstream media are likely to contravene industry codes of conduct...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk New Zealand journalist Yasmine Ryan, credited with being the first reporter writing in English about the Arab Spring from her base...

French President Emmanuel Macron appeals to the world to do more on climate change. Video: Al Jazeera French President Emmanuel Macron has delivered a rallying...

By Ristu Hanafi in Yogyakarta Protesters and students from Indonesia's Alliance against the Kulon Progo Airport have again demonstrated in front of the PT Angkasa...

A NZ Institute for Pacific Research profile on researcher Dr Cath Conn and health development by Brandon Ulfsby and Hele Ikimotu of AUT. Pacific Media...

Oro Governor Gary Juffa on the PNG government’s taxation plan. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Oro Governor Gary Juffa has commended the Papua New...

As Palestinians protest against US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Democracy Now! profiles the issues....