Tag: ABC
SIBC journos gear up for the Pacific Games the MoJo way...
By Robert Iroga, editor of Solomon Business Magazine Online
Australia’s support for the Solomon Islands media sector is long-standing and is now providing support for...
Fiji’s media veterans recount intimidation under FijiFirst government – eye on...
Pacific Media Watch
Radio Australia's Pacific Beat reports today on how Fiji has fared under the draconian Media Act that has restricted media freedom over...
Mediawatch: NZ public media merger meets growing resistance as clock ticks
MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s hints this week that reforms will be pared back in 2023 -- and an...
Papuan students, churches, NGOs and others plead over embattled governor’s health
By Laurens Ikinia
Many organisations, NGOs, churches and student leaders have called on the Indonesian government in Jakarta to consider Papua Governor Lukas Enembe’s health...
The ABC’s role in Australia’s Pacific reset – valued and highly...
ANALYSIS: By Claire M. Gorman
The Australian government is moving fast to reset relations with Australia’s Pacific partners, including a larger Pacific role for the...
AUT apologises to Australian MP over sexual harassment complaint inquiry
RNZ News
Auckland University of Technology has unreservedly apologised to a former academic turned Australian MP for its botched handling of her complaint regarding sexual...
Censoring SIBC an ‘assault on media freedom’ in Solomons, says IFJ
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the censoring of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) as an "assault...
Canberra must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in...
Policy failure over the last eight years -- including a massive cut to the ABC’s international funding -- has weakened Australia’s voice in the...
Good news for Pacific regional broadcasting – bad news for locals
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jason Brown
Good news -- an Australian parliamentary review recommends a more “expansive” media presence in the Pacific.
Bad news -- little of...
Journalists are not going to stop tweeting. But should media outlets...
By Rodney Tiffen, University of Sydney
“Not a great week for journalism at the ABC”, News Corp’s Sharri Markson tweeted earlier this month, when the...
Inside Indonesia’s Secret War for West Papua – Foreign Correspondent
The 30-minute Foreign Correspondent report by ABC.
By ABC News Indepth
Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence fighters and...
ABC warrant case shows ‘system is broken’ – change law, says...
Pacific Media Watch
The ABC’s decision today to end the appeal process against the warrant used to raid its offices demonstrates that the system is...
Australian court ruling another threat to whistleblower protection, says RSF
Pacific Media Watch
An Australian federal court decision upholding the legality of the police raid on the Sydney headquarters of the national public broadcaster ABC...
Port Moresby evicts West Papuan refugees from city settlement
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 250 West Papuans have been served notices of eviction to leave their settlement in Port Moresby, reports The National.
National Capital...
Keith Jackson: Act now over grave threat facing Australian press freedom
OPEN LETTER: By Keith Jackson
I joined the Australian Journalists Association (now the MEAA - Media Alliance) in, I think, 1971, when I still lived...
Press freedom under police attack – Democracy Now! probes ABC raid
Press freedom groups are sounding the alarm over a pair of police raids on journalists in Australia. Video: Democracy Now!
By Democracy Now!
Press freedom groups...
Police raids on ABC: The day news theory became reality
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Menzies of UTS Central News in Sydney
As I stood out the front of the ABC's Sydney headquarters on Wednesday morning (June...
MEAA blasts ‘disturbing assaults’ on press freedom after new ABC raid
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Two raids by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on journalists and media organisations within the last 24 hours represent a disturbing...
Mary-Louise O’Callaghan: Time we heard the Pacific’s take on the Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Mary-Louise O'Callaghan
It is both apt and overdue that veteran ABC correspondent Sean Dorney was last night awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Journalism...
‘Rethink’ say ABC friends condemning Canberra’s Pacific media plan
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A public broadcasting advocacy group has condemned Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s plan to commercialise Pacific broadcasting as not being able...
Next ABC chief must be advocate for public broadcasting, says MEAA
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The next managing director of the ABC must be prepared to fight for better funding and independence, and to champion public...
Nauru media ban on ABC targets Australian detention centre gag
There has been much wringing of hands over Nauru’s ban on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for next month’s Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ summit. But,...