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
Tuesday, June 16, 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
    • "You blow up a girls' school."
      Opinion

      Tucker Carlson: Facing up to the Iran war irony – who…

      Political commentator appointed The Post chief editor Matthew Hooton
      Opinion

      Stuff stuns with ‘bold’ call on new Post editor

      An educational in-depth view of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monumen
      Business

      Trump’s fishing decision threatens Pacific communities, NGO warns

      Wellington writer Eugene Doyle
      Opinion

      Eugene Doyle: Why I’ll be marching for global peace on June…

      Norwegian physician Dr Mads Gilbert
      Asia Report

      Doctor Israel banned after 40 years in Gaza’s hospitals speaks out

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

Opinion

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

West Papua: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children

Pacific Media Watch -
January 21, 2020
Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum
Opinion

Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either

Anti-vaxxer protesters try to break through a police barrier on New Zealand's Parliament grounds
Opinion

Lynley Tulloch: The irony of the Parliament protest: Peace and love – and ‘executions’

Artificial intelligence
Opinion

Will AI decide one day humans are messing up the world and take over?

Celebrating the launch of USP's SCORI on 22May23
Opinion

Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea of Islands’?

Opinion

Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

APR editor -
March 22, 2026
0
Opinion

Kanaky independence campaign rolls on … encouraged by ballot result

David Robie -
November 8, 2018
0
The Al Jazeera Six journalists
Opinion

Israel kills the journalists. Western media kills the truth of genocide...

Pacific Media Watch -
November 4, 2024
0
Italy pandemic
Opinion

Confusion behind PNG’s first Covid-19 case – flawed state communications

Pacific Media Watch -
March 21, 2020
0
Opinion

A broken body and mind, but not a shattered spirit

Sri Krishnamurthi -
February 25, 2020
0
Palestinian demonstrators protesting in Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank against Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas in the aftermath of the death of activist Nizar Banat
Opinion

‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on...

APR editor -
September 17, 2023
0
Opinion

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

Pacific Media Watch -
June 22, 2016
0
East Sepik Governor Allan Bird
Opinion

East Sepik governor Allan Bird on how to ‘change the trajectory’...

APR editor -
March 7, 2024
0
The alleged assault on an elderly protester at the Otāutahi Palestine solidarity rally
Opinion

Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police

APR editor -
August 17, 2025
0
Jacinda Ardern
Opinion

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

APR editor -
June 29, 2020
15
Opinion

Bryan Kramer: Who was culprit behind O’Neill government revenge on Waide?

Pacific Media Watch -
November 26, 2018
0
Antigua and Barbuda on oceans
Opinion

Graham Davis: A COP26 slap in the face for Fiji’s ‘oceans...

APR editor -
November 10, 2021
0
Opinion

‘Hurricane’ Winston – we’re lucky catastrophe didn’t strike Suva

Pacific Media Watch -
March 7, 2016
1
Opinion

Keith Jackson on Turnbull in PNG — media snubs, refugee jitters...

Pacific Media Watch -
April 12, 2017
0
Opinion

Elizabeth Cox: Bring back a revitalised Radio Australia to all rural...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 4, 2018
0
These dramatic changes that have been foisted upon the country’s public square have been central to a broad campaign that the Zionist lobby
Opinion

Federal government’s crackdown on free speech affects all Australians

APR editor -
January 23, 2026
0
Theo Hesegem
Opinion

Dear President Widodo, be honest with Papua about the military...

APR editor -
March 16, 2021
0
video
Opinion

Walden Bello: When we defied China over the Spratlys

APR editor -
April 17, 2017
1
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters gave the game away
Opinion

NZ and Gaza – Peters appearing to do something, when doing...

Pacific Media Watch -
June 11, 2025
0
President Trump removes mask
Opinion

Bryan Bruce: On trolls, haters, conspiracy theorists and health stupidity

Pacific Media Centre -
October 7, 2020
0
Community members in Iowa protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran
Opinion

New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa

APR editor -
March 4, 2026
0
Several transport groups staged a strike yesterday in support of a better deal for jeepney owners and drivers as part of the Philippines government's modernisation programme
Opinion

Days are numbered for iconic Filipino jeepneys – ‘kings of the...

APR editor -
March 8, 2023
0
123...59Page 1 of 59

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
Opinion

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

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

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
Opinion

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"
Opinion

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

"You blow up a girls' school."
Opinion

Tucker Carlson: Facing up to the Iran war irony – who...

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

Trillionaire Elon Musk (right) hobnobbing with billionaires
Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: The world’s first trillionaire is not your friend

Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel
Culture

Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

EDITOR'S PICKS

"You blow up a girls' school."
Opinion

Tucker Carlson: Facing up to the Iran war irony – who...

Political commentator appointed The Post chief editor Matthew Hooton
Opinion

Stuff stuns with ‘bold’ call on new Post editor

An educational in-depth view of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monumen
Business

Trump’s fishing decision threatens Pacific communities, NGO warns

Wellington writer Eugene Doyle
Opinion

Eugene Doyle: Why I’ll be marching for global peace on June...

Load more

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

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

Jacinda Ardern
Opinion

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
Opinion

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

"You blow up a girls' school."
Opinion

Tucker Carlson: Facing up to the Iran war irony – who...

The whistleblowing soldiers of 1967 admitted their job was not to “fight the enemy” – or “eradicate the terrorists”, as Israeli leaders now term it. It was to kill and terrorise Palestinian civilians
Opinion

Jonathan Cook: How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago

Political commentator appointed The Post chief editor Matthew Hooton
Opinion

Stuff stuns with ‘bold’ call on new Post editor

An educational in-depth view of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monumen
Business

Trump’s fishing decision threatens Pacific communities, NGO warns

Editor's Picks

"You blow up a girls' school."

Tucker Carlson: Facing up to the Iran war irony – who...

June 16, 2026
Political commentator appointed The Post chief editor Matthew Hooton

Stuff stuns with ‘bold’ call on new Post editor

June 15, 2026
An educational in-depth view of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monumen

Trump’s fishing decision threatens Pacific communities, NGO warns

June 15, 2026
Wellington writer Eugene Doyle

Eugene Doyle: Why I’ll be marching for global peace on June...

June 14, 2026
Norwegian physician Dr Mads Gilbert

Doctor Israel banned after 40 years in Gaza’s hospitals speaks out

June 14, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Wellington writer Eugene Doyle

Eugene Doyle: Why I’ll be marching for global peace on June...

June 14, 2026
Charges dropped for FLNKS president Christian Téin

Latest Paris court ruling triggers polarised reactions in New Caledonia

June 10, 2026
"You blow up a girls' school."

Tucker Carlson: Facing up to the Iran war irony – who...

June 16, 2026
Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

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

June 12, 2026
Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

June 12, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8327
  • Politics6127
  • Human Rights4778
  • Syndicate4647
  • Global4059
  • New Zealand3599
  • Indigenous3006
  • RNZ Pacific2603
  • Media2324
  • Pacific Media Watch2068
  • Asia Report2051
  • Democracy1983
  • Security1934
  • Military1807
  • Justice1744
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