USP students, staff call on council to drop ‘harassment’ of Ahluwalia
By Soli Wilson in Apia
A power struggle at the University of the South Pacific is continuing despite students and staff warning that it now...
Southern Cross: Buyout offer saves AAP and gives Pacific a breather
Pacific Media Watch
A reprieve for the newsagency Australian Associated Press (AAP) is featured today on Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross segment on Radio 95bFM.
An...
NZ hits 95% chance of eliminating covid – but new cases...
By Michael Plank of the University of Canterbury; Alex James of the University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Nicholas...
Pacific media react with relief over proposed sale reprieve for AAP
By Jade Bradford in Perth
News that Australian Associated Press has been saved is being welcomed by media outlets in socially and culturally complex Pacific...
In publishing Tom Cotton, The New York Times has made a...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne
When a newspaper with the authority of The New York Times chooses to publish a party-political...
Thousands rally across Australia to protest against Indigenous deaths
By RNZ News
Thousands of people were protesting across Australia today to oppose the deaths of Indigenous people in police custody.
It comes as Black Lives...
PNG police investigate cellphone death threats against Lae city chief
By Jeremy Mogi in Lae
Papua New Guinea police are investigating death threats against Lae City Authorit chief executive Neil Ellery.
The threats were sent by...
‘#PapuanLivesMatter’: George Floyd’s death exposes double standards
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta
As the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while being arrested in the United States, sparks a...
Toxic US politics, a brutal killing and the messengers become the...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie
Three cartoonists had especially poignant takes on the tragic and toxic political aftermath of martyr George Floyd’s brutal killing...
TAPOL condemns prosecutor push for heavy sentences for ‘uprising activists’
Human rights watchdog TAPOL has condemned the demand by Indonesian prosecutors seeking 17 and five years imprisonment for West Papuan activists Buchtar Tabuni and...
Airport security force Vanuatu journo to delete repatriation photos
Pacific Media Watch
A Vanuatu Daily Post journalist was forced to delete all photos of a repatriation aircraft’s arrival in Port Vila from New Zealand,...
Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules
By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie in Jakarta
A panel of judges at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by civil...
Governor Bird condemns PNG police brutality, calls for local covid data
Pacific Media Centre
A Papua New Guinea provincial governor has defending his actions for speaking up in Parliament yesterday on the government’s mooted proposal to...
Police rule out legal action against NZ black solidarity protest organisers
By RNZ News
The organisers of Black Lives Matter protests in several main centres will not be prosecuted.
On Monday, thousands gathered at several events around...
Social media ‘third party’ defamation ruling warning for Pacific nations
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
The New South Wales Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal which sought to challenge a...
Black Lives Matter dilemma: How to protest in a covid pandemic
ANALYSIS: By Philip Russo of Monash University
The death of African-American man George Floyd at the hands of police has sparked protests across the United...
Covid, cyclone force Vanuatu to postpone Pacific Islands Forum
Pacific Media Centre
The Vanuatu Council of Ministers has agreed at its meeting held in Luganville, Santo, to postpone the hosting of the Pacific...
RSF condemns attacks on US protest journalists fueled by Trump slurs
Pacific Media Watch
Protests in at least 30 cities across the US following the police killing of George Floyd have resulted in violent attacks from...
Thousands march in NZ solidarity rallies with Black Lives Matter
By RNZ News
Thousands of New Zealanders have joined large numbers of Americans in protesting following the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd.
In Auckland, Aotea...
Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape...
ANALYSIS: By Danielle K. Kilgo of Indiana University
A teenager held her phone steady enough to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life...