Pacific Media Watch

Pacific Media Watch After the 2014 Lindt cafe bombing in Sydney, the social media hashtag #illridewithyou went viral in solidarity. At the same time, three women...

NEWS REVIEW: By Robert Baird The Australian lawyer who helped uncover the Timor-Leste bugging scandal says Australia had direct, advanced knowledge of the threat that...

By Rappler in Manila Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is among Time's "100 Women of the Year", the news magazine has revealed ahead of International Women's...

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand is providing NZ$1 million to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Suva, Fiji, to support its Pacific Action Plan for...

By Praneeta Prakash in Suva Four people have been isolated by Fiji health officials and are being monitored for suspected Covid-19 coronavirus infection. The Health Ministry...

By Alexandra Wake of RMIT University Australia’s news landscape, and the ability of citizens to access quality journalism, has been dealt a major blow by...

Pacific Media Watch Citizens, journalists, lawyers and international media personalities have joined together in an international open letter to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, calling...

Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre's weekly radio programme Southern Cross made its 2020 debut today featuring Sri Krishnamurthi talking to 95bFM presenter Sherry...

OPINION: SunStar editorial in Cebu So it goes. Nineteen senators in the Philippines Senate have approved on the third and final reading of Senate Bill...

By Colin Peacock of RNZ Mediawatch Authorities and the media alike knew it was just a matter of time before New Zealand had its first...

By RSF in London During the first week of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing in London, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was concerned by...

Pacific Media Watch The ABC’s decision today to end the appeal process against the warrant used to raid its offices demonstrates that the system is...

Andy Ayamiseba died a few days ago. While the West Papuan was loved, admired and supported in Vanuatu, he fought tirelessly to win a...

Pacific Media Watch An Australian federal court decision upholding the legality of the police raid on the Sydney headquarters of the national public broadcaster ABC...

Pacific Media Watch The Philippines top state lawyer has filed a lawsuit against the country’s key television broadcaster with “guns blazing” but he ought to...

President Rodrigo Duterte takes legal action to shut down the biggest broadcaster in the Philippines in what is being described as the most severe...

By Devina Halim in Jakarta Lawyer and human rights activist Veronica Koman says Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs Mahfud MD "garbage" comment...

Pacific Media Watch Pacific human rights activists have personally handed Indonesian President Joko Widodo a protest letter which includes a list of deaths and political...

Pacific Media Watch The World Health Organisation has pledged to "hit hard" against the deadly coronavirus while saying there is hope and "we are not defenceless". WHO...

By RNZ Pacific The French nuclear compensation commission, CIVEN, says it will soon report on how to respond to last month's Supreme Court reinstatement of...

By Elaine Pearson Indonesian President Joko Widodo (known as Jokowi) addressed Australia’s Parliament yesterday. Indonesia is often referred to as the democratic success story of Southeast...

Pacific Media Watch The Australian government should break its silence and raise human rights violations in West Papua with visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo today,...