Tag: Colonialism

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk More leading Indonesian figures have made racial slurs against Natalius Pigai, former chair of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM)...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A new Fiji magazine published by a New Zealand-based media collective made its debut this weekend to mark Fiji's 50th Independence...

COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis At precisely 10am 50 years ago today, Fiji gained its independence from Britain when HRH, the Prince of Wales, handed our...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Alliance of Indonesian NGOs has denounced the UAE-Israel normalisation deal, saying it harms the Palestinian cause and is a "robbery"...

By Mong Palatino of Global Voices A book excerpt published by The Guardian narrates the survival of six shipwrecked Tongan boys on an island...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Pacific Media Centre's Del Abcede joined the Ihumātao "protectors" protest at the weekend to soak up the atmosphere of guardianship...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand police have pepper-sprayed two dogs and arrested three more people at the site of a controversial land dispute in...

Trailer for the 2013 redux version of the 1983 film Utu produced for the Cannes Film Festival. Video: Utu OBITUARY: By Matthew Theunissen of RNZ...

By RNZ Pacific An indigenous activist on Chile's Rapa Nui says new rules restricting internal migration to the island need to be rigorously enforced. Non-Rapa...

By Lalu Rahadian in Jakarta Conflicts in Papua province will not be resolved until the Indonesian government provides the Papuan people with an opportunity to...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk One of New Zealand's best-selling and most-respected historians and social commentators, Professor Paul Moon, has been acknowledged for his contributions as...

By Bob Makin in Port Vila Prime Minister Charlot Salwai paid a moving tribute to the late Father Walter Lini’s leadership of Vanuatu at the...

Kimiora Kaire-Melbourne and Wikitōria Day reporting for Māori Television from Waitangi. Māori Television’s Rereātea brings you the latest news on New Zealand’s Waitangi Day 2017. Today Kimiora Kaire-Melbourne and Wikitōria Day take you...

By Mark Bowling Allegations of recent military and police intimidation, beatings and torture, kidnapping and murder in West Papua, have been documented in a new...

Report from Pacific Media Centre This truth has no place in the Australian consciousness. Among settler nations with indigenous populations, apart from a facile “apology”...