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 13, 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
    • Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis
      Analysis

      Journalist Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby – and courage…

      Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao
      Disasters

      Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

      Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025
      Asia Report

      Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

      NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters
      Democracy

      ‘Treasury can write what it likes’, says Peters defending Pacific Islands…

      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
      Asia Report

      Caitlin Johnstone: Three major revelations about the Gaza holocaust in the…

  • 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
Margaret Mills
Reviews

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

APR editor -
December 24, 2020
video
Reviews

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

Waves of Change co-authors Associate Professor Shailendra Singh (from left), Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad and Dr Amit Sarwal
Reviews

Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in Fiji

Reviews

An important book exposing problems immigrants – especially Muslims – face in New Zealand

The case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Reviews

A new book argues Julian Assange is being tortured. Will Australia’s new PM do anything about it?

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
Reviews

Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

David Robie -
July 16, 2018
1
video
Reviews

‘They get up in the morning, sing their dreams’ – PNG...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 4, 2017
0
Owen Wilkes
Reviews

Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched

APR editor -
February 21, 2023
0
Martyred women in the Philippines
Reviews

Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw...

David Robie -
September 18, 2022
0
Reviews

Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River

Pacific Media Watch -
July 19, 2017
0
Military Nduga
Reviews

West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of destruction not...

David Robie -
May 18, 2020
1
Reviews

Putting state terrorism in context – the Rainbow Warrior follies

APR editor -
March 1, 2016
1
Covid-19 and hate
Reviews

New covid book exposes global media bias, racism and stigmatisation

APR editor -
August 30, 2021
0
Reviews

Post-coup Rabuka crackdown as seen from Fiji Times editor’s ‘hot seat’

Shailendra Singh -
April 23, 2017
1
Activist author Maire Leadbeater
Reviews

Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’

APR editor -
November 9, 2024
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
Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Reviews

Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must...

APR editor -
August 19, 2025
0
Owen Wilkes speaking at a protest at the US base at Christchurch Airport
Reviews

Owen Wilkes, the intellect behind New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance

APR editor -
January 17, 2023
0
Margaret Mills
Reviews

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

APR editor -
December 24, 2020
0
Papua's Tom Beanal
Reviews

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

APR editor -
May 18, 2026
0
video
Reviews

Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

Pacific Media Watch -
February 19, 2019
0
Reviews

An important book exposing problems immigrants – especially Muslims – face...

APR editor -
March 3, 2023
0
Scotty Morrison
Reviews

In search of our Hawaiki origins – behind the myths and...

Sri Krishnamurthi -
October 7, 2020
0
New Marshall Islands fisheries book
Reviews

How extraordinary Marshall Islands fisheries story grew … and grew

APR editor -
October 2, 2021
0
Reviews

A timely climate media strategy to empower citizens

David Robie -
February 7, 2018
0
video
Reviews

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

David Robie -
August 6, 2015
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

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...

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

West Papuan activist Paula Makabory (centre, holding banner) at a protest in Auckland in 2011
Asia Report

West Papua activist calls on Pacific leaders to pressure Indonesia over...

TSIMA reporting from Palau - today's story in the Torres News
Australia

Australia snubs Torres Strait in Melanesian Spearhead Group bid

Pacific Islands Forum member country flags
Analysis

West Papua: The Pacific’s new test of Indonesia’s sovereignty narrative

Stanford Daily editor-in-chief George Porteous
Analysis

Student newspaper wins lawsuit against Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestine speech

EDITOR'S PICKS

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis
Analysis

Journalist Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby – and courage...

Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao
Disasters

Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025
Asia Report

Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters
Democracy

‘Treasury can write what it likes’, says Peters defending Pacific Islands...

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

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis
Analysis

Journalist Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby – and courage...

Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao
Disasters

Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025
Asia Report

Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters
Democracy

‘Treasury can write what it likes’, says Peters defending Pacific Islands...

Editor's Picks

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis

Journalist Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby – and courage...

September 12, 2026
Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao

Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

September 12, 2026
Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025

Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

September 12, 2026
NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters

‘Treasury can write what it likes’, says Peters defending Pacific Islands...

September 11, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Caitlin Johnstone: Three major revelations about the Gaza holocaust in the...

September 11, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Islanders in outrigger canoes selling tropical fruits off Dobu in the Solomon Sea

Debt in the Pacific – systemic and current threats to regional...

September 8, 2026
Maltese authorities must implement the long overdue measures protecting journalists and media freedom

RSF slams ‘outrageous’ failure to bring justice 9 years after killing...

September 9, 2026
Thai protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok condemn the behaviour of Israeli tourists

‘Take Thailand Back’ – Thais protest against ‘disrespectful’ Israeli tourists in...

September 11, 2026
NZ Labour leader Chris Hipkins

Labour would prioritise recognition of Palestine, sanctions on Israel

September 9, 2026
PNG's Women in Media founder Belinda Kora

Social media misinformation ‘biggest hurdle’ for journalists, says MCPNG’s Belinda Kora

September 7, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8573
  • Politics6401
  • Human Rights5008
  • Syndicate4928
  • Global4328
  • New Zealand3752
  • Indigenous3212
  • RNZ Pacific2727
  • Media2424
  • Pacific Media Watch2262
  • Asia Report2225
  • Democracy2170
  • Security2032
  • Military1974
  • Justice1927
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