Pacific Media Centre
The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology also collaborates with other Asia-Pacific media centres engaged in research and cultural production and develops cultural and research publications, building on the success of the peer-reviewed publication Pacific Journalism Review, media freedom project Pacific Media Watch and current affairs website Asia Pacific Report.
Undecided ‘up for grabs’ and decisive for Fiji election, says academic
By Nasik Swami in Suva
Fiji's 2018 General Election is going to be a close contest between the ruling FijiFirst and the opposition parties, according...
Palestinian rally in Auckland supports ‘Day of Rage’ for free Jerusalem
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....
Natuman makes dig at US big business in historic West Papuan...
By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post
“We are all Melanesian,” says Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Joe Natuman. “We are family. We...
Activists from Puerto Rico to Pacific demand climate compo, no fossil...
Democracy Now!'s video on the Bonn protests demanding an end to fossil fuel extraction.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the German...
Jakarta power plants could cause premature deaths, says Greenpeace
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Jakarta will be surrounded by more than 10 coal-fired power plants (PLTU) within a 100km radius, which could lead to premature...
PNG journalist death sparks anger over violence against women
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop sought a court order to stop the burial of a journalist until...
Six couples married in mass wedding in new trend in PNG
The mass wedding in Port Moresby today. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A mass wedding ceremony was conducted for six couples in the...
Top award for Māori, Treaty and colonial historian with new focus
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
One of New Zealand's best-selling and most-respected historians and social commentators, Professor Paul Moon, has been acknowledged for his contributions as...
Indigenous advocacy group calls on Jokowi to revoke forests decree
By Dames Alexander Sinaga in Jakarta
A civil society group has urged the Indonesian government to revoke a presidential decree on the indigenous resettlement schemes...
Ambae’s volcano still smoking, rumbling but now ‘normal’
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
The frequent volcano rumblings felt on Ambae and surface events seen from neighboring islands of Maewo, Pentecost and even...
Jakarta third most polluted city – and its air quality is...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Anyone who wants to live a healthy life may have to consider moving out of Jakarta, as the city continues to...
Vanuatu President seeks calm, PM says ‘we’re not ready for disasters’
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Vanuatu sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and though it is accustomed to being hit by cyclones and...
PMC’s David Robie and Gadjah Mada team in Indonesian academic exchange
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Professor David Robie, director of the Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, and seven academics from Indonesia’s Universitas Gadjah Mada...
Australia’s ‘dirty’ coal hypocrisy threatens Pacific climate security
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
As Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prepares to meet with his island counterparts this week in Apia, Samoa, Pacific civil society...
Jane Kelsey: Labour and the TPPA – time to come clean...
ANALYSIS: By Professor Jane Kelsey
It is now certain that any decisions on the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the US will...
Naashon Zalk: Why are New Zealand’s waters so polluted?
Al Jazeera's People & Power programme investigates disturbing claims that New Zealand’s rivers and lakes are among the most polluted in the developed world....
‘Take action’ over West Papua plea to Pacific Forum leaders
Alistar Kata's video report on the campaign for a fact-finding mission to West Papua produced before the 2015 Pacific Islands Forum. Video: Pacific Media...
British swimmers cross Lake Geneva with West Papua petition
A live clip from the Swim for West Papua crew early in the venture bound for Geneva.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A British team was today...
Gary Juffa: The myth of PNG’s ‘Middle Bench’ – don’t be...
OPINION: By Gary Juffa
My advice for Papua New Guinea's new MPs and their staff, minions, hangers on and supporters ...
Some words about the middle...
Stop unlawful jailings of indigenous Papuans, AHRC warns Jakarta
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned the unlawful deprivation of liberty of Papuans which has has been happening frequently...
US, Chinese companies linked to PNG land theft, deforestation, says report
Landowner-turned activist Paul Pavol talks about the widespread land theft and deforestation occurring in Papua New Guinea at the hands of foreign companies. Video:...
Keith Jackson: From cusp of defeat, O’Neill’s stunning attempt to ‘steal’...
ANALYSIS: By Keith Jackson
The headlines variously read "O'Neill 'invited' to form government", "O'Neill gets tap to form government" and "People's National Congress invited to...
