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Cinema Pasifika – Episode 5: Painim Aut
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...
Rousing, inspirational public challenge to ‘no way’ TPPA deal
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,...
An Australia Day flashback – Other People’s Wars
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...
‘Don’t forget crimes – end impunity’ Timor message for Jokowi
Report from Pacific Media Watch
Human rights advocates have appealed to President Joko Widodo to "end impunity and consolidate democracy" on the eve of his...
‘Clean up’ snap election upholds Vanuatu rule of law
Report from Pacific Media Watch
By Catherine Putz of The Diplomat
Of Vanuatu’s 270,000 people, an estimated 200,000 turned up to vote in last Friday's snap...
New French ex-Sevens flyer named for national rugby squad
Report from Planet Rugby
After French rugby union coach Guy Novès selected a Fiji-born Sevens flyer for the national squad, he has now also called...
Three Kalsakau brothers make Vanuatu political history – all elected
Report from Pacific Media Watch
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
For the first time in Vanuatu’s political history since 1980, three Kalsakau brothers from the...
New Asia Pacific Report website ready for take off
From the Pacific Media Centre
An enterprising new media collaboration between a journalism school and an independent news organisation will take off on Thursday evening...
Waihopai spy base protesters talk Pacific, ‘Five Eyes’ and democracy
Report from Pacific Media Watch
By Jennifer Eder in Blenheim
An annual New Zealand protest has drawn a colourful crowd to the South Island province of...
John Pilger: Australia’s day for secrets, flags and cowards
Report from Pacific Media Centre
This truth has no place in the Australian consciousness. Among settler nations with indigenous populations, apart from a facile “apology”...
Vanua’aku Pati political bloc confident of forming Vanuatu government
Report from Pacific Media Watch
The party that led Vanuatu at independence more than three decades ago is confident that it will emerge as part...
Popular Pacific historian soon to say ‘adios’ to USP
Report from Pacific Media Watch
Profile by Ivamere Nataro in Suva
If you're a person who loves history and values culture then you would certainly want...
Fiji media monopoly: Why the silence of the institutional lambs?
Report from Pacific Media Watch
Opinion by Professor Wadan Narsey in Suva
There should have been institutional protests a few weeks ago when the Bainimarama government...
Vanuatu snap election polling ends, early trends show ministers losing seats
Report from Loop Vanuatu
Joshua Lafoai and Harold Obed in Port Vila
Voting in Vanuatu’s snap election has ended and last night unofficial results were showing...
Indonesia’s death penalty lies in wait in spite of diplomatic blowback
Report from SBS
Indonesia's attorney-general has the funds and the will to wield the death penalty again, even though last year's record 14 executions failed...
Strangers in the snow with dark secrets and deadly intentions
The Hateful Eight movie trailer: Roadshow
Report from The Conversation
By Liam Burke
Quentin Tarantino has secured his place in popular culture by reaching into neglected corners...
Vanuatu snap election candidates told to ‘uphold rule of law’
Report from Pacific Media Watch
By Glenda Willie in Port Vila
Transparency International Vanuatu has called on all candidates in today's snap election to act with...
Indonesian people smuggler cash scandal – jail for ‘paid-off’ boat crew
Report from Pacific Media Centre
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa on Rote Island, Indonesia
The captain of an asylum seeker boat who said he was paid...
US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017
Report from Pacific Media Watch in Suva
The decision by the United States to withdraw from the 30-year Tuna Treaty with Pacific Island countries will...
Fijian flyer Vakatawa – a rugby gamble France need to take
Report from Pacific Media Watch
By Paul Eddison in Caen, France
The call-up of Sevens star Virimi Vakatawa to France's Six Nations squad was a calculated...
Choose majority rule instead of ‘mockery’, warns Vanuatu chief
Report from Pacific Media Watch in Port Vila
By Godwin Ligo of the Vanuatu Daily Post
Port Vila-based Ambrym chief Worwor Issac says he has observed...
Novès picks star Fijian Sevens wing in new-look France rugby squad
Video spotlight on Vakatawa's brilliance - 6 tries in the 2015 Wellington Sevens
Report from Pacific Media Watch in Paris
France head rugby union coach Guy...