Tag: Books

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk An Iranian asylum-seeker detained in Papua New Guinea under Australian asylum laws has won Australia's most valuable literary prize for a...

BOOK REVIEW: By Bambang Muryanto in Yogyakarta A Dutch freelance journalist, Rohan (a pen name), had been interested in the political turmoil in Papua...

REVIEW: By Dr Wayne Hope It can’t have been easy for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and their political leaders to deny the results...

By Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson The Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Tim Keating presented the NZ Defence Force response to the book Hit &...

Professor Welby Ings ... talking "disobedient thinking" at TedxAuckland in 2013, some of the ideas underpinning his new book. Video: TedxTalks Despite being expelled from...

By Pacific Media Watch editor Kendall Hutt Bookstore owners, writers, authors, family, friends and a group hopeful of West Papuan independence squeezed into the...

Ahead of the launch of her debut novel The Earth Cries Out, author Bonnie Etherington talks with Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Kendall Hutt...

By David Robie on Aneityum, Vanuatu She had the most enchanting smile, even though she had lost her baby teeth. Her toothless grin turned out...

REVIEW: By Erica George of Amnesty International NZ "Mainstream journalism has failed to communicate not only peace, but also human rights in ways that have...

By TJ Aumua of Pacific Media Watch A research report about Pacific media outlets in New Zealand was launched today at Auckland University of Technology...

Behind the Blockade, by Veronica Hatutasi. Boroko, Papua New Guinea: Word Publishing Company. 233 pages hardcover. ISBN 978-9980-89-024-5. Reviewed by Anna Solomon Behind the Blockade, by...

Veronica Hatutasi on difficulties facing authors in Papua New Guinea in an EMTV interview. By Adam Elliott Journalist Veronica Hatutasi has recently launched her new book...

On September 18, 2013, two Greenpeace International activists were arrested during a peaceful protest at a Gazprom oil platform in the Russian Arctic. A...

Report from Pacific Media Watch Profile by Ivamere Nataro in Suva If you're a person who loves history and values culture then you would certainly want...

A rich account of the events surrounding the Rainbow Warrior affair three decades ago. Interview: With Dr David Robie Interviewer: Selwyn Manning Date: July 8, 2015 Subject: 30...

Report by Pacific Media Centre Father Francis X. Hezel reviews a new book on climate change corruption and development in the Pacific. And the message...