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
Thursday, October 8, 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
    • ABC Media Watch
      Analysis

      ‘Flying High Dubai’ – Michael West Media responds to ABC Media…

      Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo (from left), PNG Prime Minister James Marape, Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr, and Tonga Prime Minister Lord Fatafehi Fakafanua
      Climate

      ‘Let’s rally behind them’ – PNG commits to help Tuvalu at…

      A Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland on 3 Oct 2026
      Asia Report

      Palestine – We remember. We resist. We remain. We will not…

      French Polynesia territorial President Moetai Brotherson
      Decolonisation

      French Polynesia proposes ‘pathway to independence’ process at UN

      Aseri Radrodro (from left), Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, and NFP's Professor Biman Prasad
      Democracy

      ‘Respect the people’ – Fiji coalition clash over Rabuka’s fast-tracked constitutional…

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

Reviews

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

Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River

Pacific Media Watch -
July 19, 2017
Curse of Gold
Reviews

Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

Lilo Ema Siopevideo
Reviews

Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka voyaging

Reviews

‘Paying it forward’ – a new dance concept with Ia Manuia

Peace Action cover detail
Reviews

Lessons from peace activists – and action is up to the readers

video
Reviews

Timely strategic research spotlights killings of journalists

David Robie -
September 1, 2017
0
Reviews

Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance

David Robie -
January 9, 2016
3
Pilot and author Silva McLeod
Reviews

Fantasy like Moana? ‘No, I just wanted to tell my story,’...

Sri Krishnamurthi -
May 10, 2023
0
video
Reviews

Rainbow Warrior … launch of the new ‘last voyage’ and bombing...

David Robie -
August 6, 2015
0
1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
Reviews

Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific

APR editor -
March 12, 2026
0
Reviews

Putting state terrorism in context – the Rainbow Warrior follies

APR editor -
March 1, 2016
1
video
Reviews

Disney’s Moana: First Pacific movie princess the real deal

APR editor -
December 14, 2016
0
The Sunday Graphic's 1953 Royal Tour Picture Album
Reviews

Late Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 Pacific royal tour teaches us much about...

APR editor -
September 9, 2022
0
Owen Wilkes speaking at a protest at the US base at Christchurch Airport
Reviews

‘Lots of information isn’t secret, it’s just hard to find’ –...

Pacific Media Watch -
January 1, 2023
0
Curse of Gold
Reviews

Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

APR editor -
March 10, 2026
0
Reviews

The Opposition: Paga Hill’s villagers fight for justice in PNG

Pacific Media Watch -
February 10, 2018
0
Investigative journalist Nicky Hager
Reviews

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

Pacific Media Watch -
September 27, 2026
0
NZ Listener June 1972
Reviews

A Listener flashback: The sacking of an editor

APR editor -
May 9, 2020
0
video
Reviews

Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

Pacific Media Watch -
February 19, 2019
0
Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast
Reviews

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...

APR editor -
March 8, 2026
0
A protest over a controversial and widely condemned series of heavily armed nationwide Te Urewera raids
Reviews

An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia...

APR editor -
January 8, 2025
0
Reviews

The bloody 1965-66 slaughter – behind Indonesia’s mass killings secrecy

APR editor -
August 9, 2019
0
Reviews

Behind the Blockade : A ‘prisoner’ mother’s struggle to remove barriers

APR editor -
February 29, 2016
2
Auli'i Cravalho is still great as Moana
Reviews

Moana 2: The magic is missing in this half-baked Pacific sequel

Pacific Media Watch -
December 2, 2024
0
Gaza devastation as the result of the relentless Israeli bombardment
Reviews

Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from...

David Robie -
November 24, 2023
0
Margaret Mills
Reviews

Pioneering saga of early Otago horse whisperer author’s dream come true

APR editor -
December 24, 2020
0
Reviews

A timely climate media strategy to empower citizens

David Robie -
February 7, 2018
0
1234Page 1 of 4

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

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

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

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
Reviews

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...

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

ABC Media Watch
Analysis

‘Flying High Dubai’ – Michael West Media responds to ABC Media...

Human rights lawyer Muhammad Dahleh
Asia Report

Palestinian-led parties in Israel face ‘institutional discrimination’, says lawyer

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national coordinator John Minto and another protester at the New Zealand aerospace summit
Asia Report

Police arrest two as protesters accused of blocking NZ aerospace summit

SCO's Nurlan Yermekbayev
Analysis

Eugene Doyle: The quiet general – and the fast growing Eurasian...

EDITOR'S PICKS

ABC Media Watch
Analysis

‘Flying High Dubai’ – Michael West Media responds to ABC Media...

Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo (from left), PNG Prime Minister James Marape, Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr, and Tonga Prime Minister Lord Fatafehi Fakafanua
Climate

‘Let’s rally behind them’ – PNG commits to help Tuvalu at...

A Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland on 3 Oct 2026
Asia Report

Palestine – We remember. We resist. We remain. We will not...

French Polynesia territorial President Moetai Brotherson
Decolonisation

French Polynesia proposes ‘pathway to independence’ process at UN

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

ABC Media Watch
Analysis

‘Flying High Dubai’ – Michael West Media responds to ABC Media...

Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo (from left), PNG Prime Minister James Marape, Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr, and Tonga Prime Minister Lord Fatafehi Fakafanua
Climate

‘Let’s rally behind them’ – PNG commits to help Tuvalu at...

A Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland on 3 Oct 2026
Asia Report

Palestine – We remember. We resist. We remain. We will not...

French Polynesia territorial President Moetai Brotherson
Decolonisation

French Polynesia proposes ‘pathway to independence’ process at UN

Editor's Picks

ABC Media Watch

‘Flying High Dubai’ – Michael West Media responds to ABC Media...

October 7, 2026
Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo (from left), PNG Prime Minister James Marape, Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr, and Tonga Prime Minister Lord Fatafehi Fakafanua

‘Let’s rally behind them’ – PNG commits to help Tuvalu at...

October 7, 2026
A Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland on 3 Oct 2026

Palestine – We remember. We resist. We remain. We will not...

October 7, 2026
French Polynesia territorial President Moetai Brotherson

French Polynesia proposes ‘pathway to independence’ process at UN

October 7, 2026
Aseri Radrodro (from left), Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, and NFP's Professor Biman Prasad

‘Respect the people’ – Fiji coalition clash over Rabuka’s fast-tracked constitutional...

October 7, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Aseri Radrodro (from left), Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, and NFP's Professor Biman Prasad

‘Respect the people’ – Fiji coalition clash over Rabuka’s fast-tracked constitutional...

October 7, 2026
Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

Media demand answers after Samoan PM’s security reportedly deletes journalist’s photos

October 3, 2026
Pro-France New Caledonian politician Nicolas Metzdorf, a deputy in the French National Assembly

‘We are not a French province’ – Vanuatu slams pro-France lawmaker’s...

October 5, 2026
Palestinian journalists work with cameras, laptops and limited equipment from makeshift press areas

Palestinian researcher exposes Israel’s list of so-called ‘terrorist’ journalists slain in...

October 5, 2026
A pro-Palestinian rally on the 156th consecutive week of protest

Palestine solidarity protesters in NZ to kick off ‘global action’ day...

October 6, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8641
  • Politics6474
  • Human Rights5071
  • Syndicate5002
  • Global4397
  • New Zealand3784
  • Indigenous3268
  • RNZ Pacific2756
  • Media2456
  • Pacific Media Watch2309
  • Asia Report2259
  • Democracy2211
  • Security2058
  • Military2001
  • Justice1973
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