Home Analysis

Analysis

Random

Israeli colonialism . . . the Nakba

Analysis

Why is the West dancing to Israel’s tune? What’s leading us to disaster

Pacific Media Watch -

March 28, 2026

Philippines academic freedom

Analysis

Don’t touch academic freedom – why the Philippine military action is so intrusive and gross

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

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

"No to neocolonialism" say Christian Tein of the protest group CCAT and thousands of Kanak protesters

Analysis

Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots

Analysis

New Zealand PM’s diplomatic debacle and geopolitical hypocrisy over Fiji

Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Hossam Shabat reporting from Gaza

Analysis

With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list

Pacific Media Watch -

April 5, 2025

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Analysis

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 5, 2026

Analysis

NZ Herald launches premium paywall – how will it impact on...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 1, 2019

BDS focuses on the actions of Israel as a colonial, occupying power

Analysis

Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of...

January 9, 2025

Palestinians perform prayer next to the rubble of a mosque that was destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces during the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Trump’s ‘annexation ban’ is a ploy to push Israeli normalisation

October 30, 2025

Papua's Tom Beanal

Analysis

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

May 18, 2026

Press freedom Index

Analysis

Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom

April 23, 2020

Suspended Papua Governor Lukas Enembe in court in Jakarta

Analysis

Court rejects Papua governor Enembe’s objections but suspends proceedings over his...

July 5, 2023

Kabul Airport suicide bombing wounded

Analysis

Who speaks for Afghans? Climate realities with the Taliban takeover

August 28, 2021

Author Eugene Doyle with Special Envoy Francesca Albanese

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Silencing Francesca Albanese – ‘Not in our name’ Gaza...

February 17, 2026

So now this modern American Nero struggles to convince us that he "won"

Analysis

How Trump’s White House demands as prerequisites for stopping bombings bit...

April 8, 2026

"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland

Analysis

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...

May 15, 2026

Analysis

Kanak independence struggle gains Maohi support as vote looms

October 25, 2018

Analysis

NZ journalists arrested in Fiji now free but no new era...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 10, 2019

University of Papua New Guinea students protest against the US-PNG defence pact

Analysis

Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific

May 22, 2023

PNG Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare's state funeral in 2021

Analysis

The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea...

January 3, 2022

Philip Jacobson

Analysis

Andreas Harsono: Indonesia’s harmful restrictions on foreign journalists, academics

Pacific Media Watch -

August 28, 2020

Australian author Antony Loewenstein

Analysis

‘Who is the superpower? The US or Israel?’ Al Jazeera on...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 14, 2024

Climate action

Analysis

New Biden era heralds global climate politics switch with US rejoining...

November 9, 2020

Five Palestinian journalists from Gaza imprisoned in Israeli jails

Analysis

Palestinian journalists from Gaza ‘treated inhumanely’ by Israeli army and Shin...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 29, 2026

China's BeiDou communications satellite

Analysis

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

July 28, 2025

Analysis

Fijian flyer Vakatawa – a rugby gamble France need to take

January 21, 2016

12 3...47 Page 1 of 47

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

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

BEARING WITNESS

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...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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

A mini banner inspired and dedicated to Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network and the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre protests

Arts

Fijians for Palestine – an antidote to ‘Suva sycophancy’ over Israel

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

Asia Report

Mark Naglazas: Blaming immigrants when we need to look inside for...

An Iran-China freight train

Analysis

The train that changes everything – the Silk Road railway beats...

Author May Pik

Analysis

May Pik: Waking up from a Zionist nightmare, let’s carry the...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The lack of proportionality is the key

Asia Report

They’re saying the attack on Iran was proportional – here are...

China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

Civil Society

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Asia Report

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

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

China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

Civil Society

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Asia Report

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

World Cup BDS graphic

Asia Report

Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’...