CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Sunday, September 20, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • Protesters march down Auckland's Queen St
      Climate

      Greenpeace protests Conservation Amendment Bill in downtown Auckland

      Author Naomi Klein . . . "Either you bunker - either you just protect you and yours - or . . .
      Analysis

      ‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor on billionaires, bunkers,…

      Fiji's HIV crisis
      Editor’s Picks

      ‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should…

      TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"
      Asia Report

      Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead…

      "Put the greens last"
      Analysis

      Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Home Analysis

Analysis

Random
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Analysis

‘TPPA – walk away’ rally welcomes West Papuan leader Octo Mote

David Robie -
August 17, 2015
Thousands of Papuan protesters
Analysis

Yamin Kogoya: Fatal disconnect between Jakarta and West Papua worsens settler-colonial occupation

Fiji - freedom of the press
Analysis

Ajay Bhai Amrit: Freedom of the press – Fiji’s ranking a national shame

The Pacific 2025 year ahead
Analysis

Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year

Fiji vaccine rollout
Analysis

PNG and Fiji were both facing covid catastrophes. Why has one vaccine rollout surged and the other stalled?

Analysis

Nuclear free: Do you know who this ni-Vanuatu girl is?

David Robie -
October 21, 2015
0
President Prabowo Subianto
Analysis

Prabowo’s presidency sparks fear and faint hope in Indonesia’s contested Papua

APR editor -
October 23, 2024
0
"I watched women weep for loved ones, denied the chance to mourn them"
Analysis

The murderous, absurd ‘feminism’ of the US-Israeli war on Iran

APR editor -
March 26, 2026
0
Emotions are running high among Kanak independence supporters
Analysis

Violence erupts in New Caledonia as independence supporters oppose legislation in...

APR editor -
May 15, 2024
0
The Democrat voters chose Dr Abdul El-Sayed because he’s a fighter
Analysis

El-Sayed’s Michigan primary win against tyranny a good omen for a...

APR editor -
August 7, 2026
0
NZ feminist Kate Sheppard
Analysis

On the money: Kate Sheppard and the making of a NZ...

APR editor -
September 19, 2021
0
The lone building left standing from the US nuclear bomb attack on 3 August 1945 that later became the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Analysis

Hiroshima 80 years on – why AUKUS is imperial madness and...

APR editor -
August 3, 2025
0
"Affirmed, noted, endorsed" at the 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders summit media conference in Koror
Analysis

Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Koror – heavy on reaffirming but...

APR editor -
September 11, 2026
0
And now there are 10 in BRICS, the alternative to the G7 bloc
Analysis

Indonesia joins BRICS: What now for West Papuan goal of independence?

APR editor -
January 14, 2025
0
The Daily Blog publisher Martyn Bradbury & a nespaper
Analysis

Martyn Bradbury’s 17 editorial ‘no go’ zones for the NZ media

Pacific Media Watch -
January 5, 2023
0
China's BeiDou communications satellite
Analysis

Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is more about a looming new...

APR editor -
July 28, 2025
0
Analysis

Pillagers of the Pacific – tuna fishing out of control

Pacific Media Centre -
August 4, 2015
0
PNG Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko
Analysis

Yamin Kogoya: While West Papuans face an ‘existential threat’ under Indonesia,...

APR editor -
December 15, 2022
0
Australian protesters condemn the torture of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails at a demonstration in Adelaide, South Australia, in December 2025
Analysis

US-built ‘torture ship’ and US funding played role in kidnapping, torture...

APR editor -
May 27, 2026
0
Analysis

Indonesia next on the buyer list for French submarines?

APR editor -
May 30, 2016
0
Analysis

China plans ‘greener, cleaner’ industry but faces complex challenges

Jihee Junn -
June 20, 2016
0
Australia's National Press Club sponsors include the world’s two biggest weapons makers
Analysis

Weaponising media – National Press Club and its arms industry sponsors

APR editor -
November 1, 2025
0
PNG Jackson Kiakari
Analysis

Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise...

APR editor -
April 3, 2021
1
Matariki
Analysis

Matariki falls during a quiet retail season – but NZ businesses...

APR editor -
June 23, 2022
0
"Bread and bullets" by Mr Fish
Analysis

Chris Hedges: Requiem for America on the Fourth of July

APR editor -
July 4, 2026
0
Trump and Netanyahu claim the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed
Analysis

Trump starts major ‘regime-change’ war with Iran, serving neoconservatism and Israel

APR editor -
March 1, 2026
0
This screenshot from a video broadcast on Israeli channel Now 14 shows an officer and four soldiers of Israel’s Givati Brigade standing next to Palestinian detainees
Analysis

Israel has ‘unleashed hell and destruction’ in Gaza genocide, says Amnesty...

APR editor -
December 6, 2024
0
123...51Page 1 of 51

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm
Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Load more

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate
Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

Load more

BEARING WITNESS

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

"Put the greens last"
Analysis

Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

Palestinian media political prisoners
Asia Report

37 Palestinian journalists imprisoned in Israeli jails, says prisoner rights group

Author Naomi Klein . . . "Either you bunker - either you just protect you and yours - or . . .
Analysis

‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor on billionaires, bunkers,...

About 12,000 people are now believed to be living with HIV in Fiji
Development

‘Horrendously high’ number of HIV infections in Fiji babies, says health...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Protesters march down Auckland's Queen St
Climate

Greenpeace protests Conservation Amendment Bill in downtown Auckland

Author Naomi Klein . . . "Either you bunker - either you just protect you and yours - or . . .
Analysis

‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor on billionaires, bunkers,...

Fiji's HIV crisis
Editor's Picks

‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should...

TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"
Asia Report

Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

Load more

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern
Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva
Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Civil Society

Gallery: ‘Save our land – sell Luxon instead’ message at NZ...

Fiji's 2013 Constitution
Democracy

Fiji targets new constitution by Christmas Eve as watchdog warns of...

Fiji's HIV crisis
Editor's Picks

‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should...

TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"
Asia Report

Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

Editor's Picks

Protesters march down Auckland's Queen St

Greenpeace protests Conservation Amendment Bill in downtown Auckland

September 19, 2026
Author Naomi Klein . . . "Either you bunker - either you just protect you and yours - or . . .

‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor on billionaires, bunkers,...

September 18, 2026
Fiji's HIV crisis

‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should...

September 18, 2026
TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

September 18, 2026
"Put the greens last"

Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

September 17, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Labour's Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni

Labour promises visa-free travel for Pacific as overstayer rates rise

September 17, 2026
The Panguna mine arson attack

Mining company’s equipment targeted in Panguna arson attack

September 13, 2026
About 12,000 people are now believed to be living with HIV in Fiji

‘Horrendously high’ number of HIV infections in Fiji babies, says health...

September 14, 2026
Fiji Health Minister Dr Atonio Lalabalavu's HIV warning

Fiji declares HIV emergency as 1 in 60 Fijian adults live...

September 16, 2026
TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

September 18, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8593
  • Politics6420
  • Human Rights5022
  • Syndicate4949
  • Global4346
  • New Zealand3763
  • Indigenous3222
  • RNZ Pacific2734
  • Media2429
  • Pacific Media Watch2272
  • Asia Report2234
  • Democracy2177
  • Security2040
  • Military1982
  • Justice1938
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz