Journalist reports on USP payments scandal as campus backs reform VC
Pacific Media Watch
After three days of protests by hundreds of students and staff at the regional University of the South Pacific over the treatment...
Albert Schram: University governance, academic freedom and institutional autonomy in the...
ANALYSIS: By Albert Schram
This article attempts to put the current governance crisis at the Fiji-based University of the South Pacific (USP), one of only...
NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the...
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
After Australia’s misguided attempts at handing over $17.1 of Australian-made television content to the Pacific region last month...
Fiji police raid opposition party headquarters in social media blitz
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji police have raided the headquarters of Fiji's National Federation Party, apparently in search of information related to social media posts.
In a...
NZ’s independence from Five Eyes has slipped, says former PM Clark
INDEPTH: By Guyon Espiner, RNZ News investigative reporter, with contributor John Daniell
New Zealand has lost some of its independence within the Five Eyes intelligence...
Nauru president accuses Fiji group of ‘hijacking’ USP in vendetta
Pacific Media Watch
Nauru President Lionel Aingimea has accused a "small group" of Fiji officials of "hijacking" the 12-country regional University of the South Pacific...
Staff, students back USP academic chief amid tension over allegations
By Wansolwara staff
A "fight for justice and good governance" at the University of the South Pacific has continued as staff and students have echoed...
NZ police scrapping Armed Response Teams after trial, says commissioner
By RNZ News
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster announced today that Armed Response Teams will not be part of the New Zealand policing model in the...
Ramos-Horta slams criminal libel plan – threat to rights in Timor-Leste
By Antonio Sampaio in Dili
Former East Timorese President José Ramos-Horta says it is not opportune for the government to be debating the possible criminalisation...
Bryan Bruce: Why I have run out of words – and...
COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce
Every time I wrote a sentence to describe the slow motion collision of social, economic and political forces that are simultaneously...
Mong Palatino: Cyber trolling targets opposition against Duterte’s Terror Bill
COMMENT: By Mong Palatino in Manila
The proliferation of fake Facebook accounts in the Philippines is meant to derail the growing public opposition against the...
New Zealand relaxes covid restrictions after ‘remarkable’ virus fight
By RNZ News
"Covid-free" New Zealand has moved early today to its lowest restrictions - alert level 1.
The change happened at midnight after New Zealanders...
USP vice-chancellor told to ‘step aside’, committee member resigns in protest
By Edwin Nand in Suva
The University of the South Pacific's vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, a Canadian, has been told to step down to allow...
Vanuatu media group condemns ‘intimidation’ of woman journalist
By RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu's media advocacy group Media Association blong Vanuatu (MAV) has condemned what it calls intimidation of a local journalist by airport security...
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...









































