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
Wednesday, September 30, 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
    • A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler
      Opinion

      From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of…

      The new president of PINA, PNG's Neville Choi
      AI

      New PINA president pledges to strengthen Pacific newsrooms

      Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale
      Asia Report

      Pacific leaders urge Jakarta to allow UN rights visit to West…

      Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation
      Editor’s Picks

      Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

      Investigative journalist Nicky Hager
      Opinion

      Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s…

  • 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
The Pacific Newsroom
Opinion

Social media ‘bullshit’ threatens coping with covid-19 outbreak in PNG

APR editor -
March 23, 2021
Author and human rights advocate Jim Aubrey
Opinion

Open letter: Canberra must call on UN to ‘rectify breaches’ over West Papuan decolonisation

Iranians hold posters of late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head Hossein Salami (left), and late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri (right), who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent days
Opinion

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you cannot assassinate your way to peace

Armed Constabulary at Parihaka.
Opinion

Crosbie Walsh: Parihaka, a Stuff apology to Māori and seeking truth

"Isn’t it time we woke from our deep slumber?"
Opinion

Is genocide the new normal? Could Israel and the US destroy Iran?

Sydney journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory
Opinion

Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists

Pacific Media Watch -
August 27, 2025
0
Pacific Islands climate justice protesters among those demonstrating at The Hague
Opinion

Deep freeze: Pacific ‘alarm’ as Trump leaves US diplomats with little...

APR editor -
January 29, 2025
0
US President Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House
Opinion

Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only...

APR editor -
March 12, 2026
0
NZH editorial
Opinion

NZ’s coronavirus reality check a ‘timely wake-up call’, says Herald

Pacific Media Watch -
June 22, 2020
0
Opinion

Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners

PMC Reporter -
May 30, 2019
0
Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad
Opinion

Dark political clouds forming in Fiji – expect more lightning strikes...

APR editor -
October 28, 2025
0
Opinion

Wadan Narsey: Silent censorship denies Fiji public ‘alternative voices’

Pacific Media Watch -
April 20, 2016
1
Indonesian military helicopters firing indiscriminately at civilian villages
Opinion

Indonesia: Civilian supremacy, or civilian inferiority?

APR editor -
February 9, 2016
0
video
Opinion

Another year over, and a new one just begun

APR editor -
January 11, 2016
0
News Corp, has long criticised university journalism education
Opinion

Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business...

APR editor -
February 4, 2022
0
Opinion

Scott Waide reinstated – ‘thank you’ message from EMTV journalist

Pacific Media Watch -
November 26, 2018
0
Honouring Hisoshima Day and the International Day for the World's Indigenous Peoples this month
Opinion

Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum

APR editor -
August 16, 2024
0
Breaking news - Capitol stormed
Opinion

‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’ – behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming...

APR editor -
January 7, 2021
0
Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre
Opinion

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

APR editor -
April 29, 2026
0
ABC organiser Murray Horton
Opinion

Murray Horton: Get tough on Israel – we’ve done it before...

APR editor -
April 23, 2024
0
Opinion

Fiji media monopoly: Why the silence of the institutional lambs?

APR editor -
January 24, 2016
0
Opinion

End sexism and ‘invisibility’ of women in the media

APR editor -
December 4, 2015
0
News outlets around the world carried reports of the Hīkoi
Opinion

Cynical politics reported on world stage damage NZ’s reputation

Pacific Media Watch -
November 27, 2024
0
West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group
Opinion

MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for...

David Robie -
August 26, 2023
1
Opinion

USP saga lesson for Pacific future: No more looking the other...

APR editor -
June 26, 2020
0
The New Zealand government and the mainstream media have gone ballistic
Opinion

Will New Zealand ‘invade’ the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously

APR editor -
February 13, 2025
0
Kerema open air market
Opinion

Rebecca Kuku: PNG’s Gulf Province, ignored for too long but now...

Scott Waide -
December 31, 2020
0
123...64Page 1 of 64

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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
Opinion

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Opinion

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
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...

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

Fijian Media Association general secretary Stanley Simpson (right) greets Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka at the 8th Pacific Media Summit in Savusavu
Cook Islands

Rabuka urges Pacific media to verify facts, warns over rise of...

Te Ao With Moana
Asia Report

Māori delegates defend controversial ‘Indigenous’ trips to Israel

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape and the Solomon Islands leader Matthew Wale
Asia Report

‘Stop empty promises’ – Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands leaders demand...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuk
Democracy

Pacific media must bring remote communities into the conversation, says Rabuka

EDITOR'S PICKS

A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler
Opinion

From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of...

The new president of PINA, PNG's Neville Choi
AI

New PINA president pledges to strengthen Pacific newsrooms

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale
Asia Report

Pacific leaders urge Jakarta to allow UN rights visit to West...

Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation
Editor's Picks

Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

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

A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler
Opinion

From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of...

The new president of PINA, PNG's Neville Choi
AI

New PINA president pledges to strengthen Pacific newsrooms

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale
Asia Report

Pacific leaders urge Jakarta to allow UN rights visit to West...

Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation
Editor's Picks

Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

Editor's Picks

A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler

From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of...

September 29, 2026
The new president of PINA, PNG's Neville Choi

New PINA president pledges to strengthen Pacific newsrooms

September 29, 2026
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Pacific leaders urge Jakarta to allow UN rights visit to West...

September 29, 2026
Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation

Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

September 28, 2026
Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

September 27, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

The Al Jazeera Media Network has repeatedly and vehemently condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli military - and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech

September 26, 2026
The new president of PINA, PNG's Neville Choi

New PINA president pledges to strengthen Pacific newsrooms

September 29, 2026
Fijian Media Association general secretary Stanley Simpson (right) greets Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka at the 8th Pacific Media Summit in Savusavu

Rabuka urges Pacific media to verify facts, warns over rise of...

September 24, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits...

September 25, 2026
Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

‘Not set a date’ – Rabuka says Fiji election timing depends...

September 24, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8623
  • Politics6453
  • Human Rights5056
  • Syndicate4983
  • Global4376
  • New Zealand3778
  • Indigenous3250
  • RNZ Pacific2745
  • Media2450
  • Pacific Media Watch2298
  • Asia Report2250
  • Democracy2200
  • Security2054
  • Military1996
  • Justice1961
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