Sylvia Frain
Dr Sylvia C. Frain is an AUT Strategic Research Investment Fund 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow attached to the Pacific Media Centre in Auckland University of Technology's School of Communication Studies. Dr Frain’s research is part of an ongoing collaboration of artists, activists, and academics who explore (de)colonisation and (de)militarisation efforts and resistance and solidarity (fluidarity) across Oceania through a gendered and visual lens.
Waste colonialism and plastic pollution targeted in NZ ‘pure’ campaign
By Sylvia C. Frain in Auckland
Aotearoa/New Zealand’s status as a “wasteful country” is one of the targets of the PURE 2018 tour launched in...
Pacific knowledge, smart media used to tackle mosquito-borne diseases
By Dr Sylvia C. Frain of the Pacific Media Centre
An international TechCamp event, funded by the US Embassy in New Zealand and organised by...
Mariana Islands community groups to sue US Navy over at risk...
By Sylvia C. Frain in Saipan
Eight groups plan to file a lawsuit against the US Department of the Navy and the US Fish and...
!["That anyone in the White House took this plan seriously, let alone acted on it, is a genuinely staggering notion. But the proposition that [former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] could retake the reins of power in Iran is possibly the least preposterous part of the scheme](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-WikiP-680wide-100x70.png "Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof")
