Michael Neilson
Michael Neilson is a New Zealand journalist who graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies (Journalism) from Auckland University of Technology. He worked with the AUT Pacific Media Centre in 2015 and was on an Asia New Zealand Foundation-funded internship with The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta, Indonesia, early in 2016. He is currently Māori affairs reporter of The New Zealand Herald.
Learning te reo Māori a pathway to Aotearoa’s culture and history
Eden created an online series for Te Karere voicing the political views of youth. Video: AUT
By Michael Neilson, Māori affairs reporter of the New...
Michael Neilson: Time for Pakeha to take politics out of te...
OPINION: By Michael Neilson of The Gisborne Herald
"Why would you want to learn it if you are not even Māori?” “You know it’s a...
Jakarta – many ‘spikes’ but it’s the city I grew to...
Journalist Michael Neilson spent six weeks earlier this year at The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta, Indonesia. He describes his time working for the paper...
Gays and lesbians feel heat of discrimination and prejudice in Indonesia
By Michael Neilson in Jakarta
On the University of Indonesia campus in Depok, south of Jakarta, there is a group that gets together twice a...
Rethinking the kaki lima: Australian and Indonesian students take on a...
By Michael Neilson in Jakarta
Walk down almost any street in Indonesia and you are bound to find street vendors, selling everything from fried tofu...
Indonesian tourist visa fee set to be scrapped for Australians
By Michael Neilson in Jakarta
The US$35 (A$49) visa fee Australian tourists must pay before entering Indonesia looks set to be finally scrapped after years...
Aceh citizens take legal action to protect Sumatran jungle
Report from The Sydney Morning Herald
By Michael Neilson in Jakarta
Activists are suing the Indonesian government in a bid to stop development they say will...
Push to ban transhipments in ‘out of control’ Pacific tuna fishery
Abuse at sea – “we were paid nothing at all”. One of a series of testimonials by abused fishermen. Video: Greenpeace
Report by Pacific Media...
Indonesian law outlawing presidential insults unlikely to pass, say analysts
Report by Pacific Media Centre
A draft Indonesian Criminal Code amendment, condemed by critics as undermining freedom of speech, is interpreted to mean that burning...
