Tag: Espionage
Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reid
The Enemy Within, by Maire Leadbeater is many things. It is:
• A family history
• A social history
• A history of the...
Indonesian human rights groups seek independent probe of NZ pilot’s death...
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura and Pizaro Gozali Idrus in Jakarta
Indonesian human rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of...
Te Kuaka calls for urgent law change on spy agency, warns...
Asia Pacific Report
Te Kuaka, an independent foreign policy advocacy group with a strong focus on the Pacific, has called for urgent changes to the...
JERAA urges US to drop spy charges – return Assange to...
Pacific Media Watch
The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has joined media freedom groups supporting Julian Assange, an Australian citizen whose unjust...
Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
The release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) this week is the...
Micronesia’s president Panuelo claims spying and bribery by China
By Barbara Dreaver, 1News Pacific correspondent
The President of the Federated States of Micronesia has made a series of disturbing claims against China, including alleging...
Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched
REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls
Peacemonger is a collection of essays about the much travelled Aotearoa peace activist and researcher Owen Wilkes, who died in May...
‘Lots of information isn’t secret, it’s just hard to find’ –...
BOOK CHAPTER: By Nicky Hager
Whistleblower Owen Wilkes was a tireless and formidable researcher for the Pacific, peace and disarmament. Before the internet, he combed...
Journalists risk prosecution under Australia’s ‘foreign interference’ law
UQ News
Journalists may face decades in prison for "foreign interference" offences unless urgent changes are made to Australia’s national security laws, according to a...
Step up efforts to free Assange after 3 years in jail,...
Pacific Media Watch newdesk
Australia must step up diplomatic efforts to encourage the US government to drop its bid to extradite Julian Assange who has...
Universities must act to prevent espionage and foreign interference, but national...
ANALYSIS: By Sarah Kendall, The University of Queensland
This week, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security released its much anticipated report on national...
Oil companies get caught spying on NZ children and the story...
COMMENT: By Martyn Bradbury
Less than 24 hours after New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager’s latest extraordinary story of how oil companies have been spying...
Murray Horton: Reflections on Owen Wilkes, iconic peace researcher, adventurer and...
COMMENTARY: By Murray Horton in Christchurch
Owen Wilkes, an internationally renowned peace researcher and Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) founder, died in 2005,...
Assange’s UK detention violates international law – Australia must intervene
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange, a film by Juan Passarelli @jlpassarelli
By Simon Floth in Armidale, NSW
Julian Assange is scheduled to...
National MP Jian Yang, who admitted training Chinese spies, quits politics
By RNZ News
Opposition National list MP Dr Jian Yang has announced his retirement from New Zealand politics and says he will not stand in...
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...
CPJ protests over China’s arrest of Australian blogger Yang Hengjun
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Chinese authorities should immediately release Australian writer Yang Hengjun and drop all charges against him, says the New York-based Committee to...
RSF condemns Australian police raid on journalist’s home as ‘intimidation’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has unreservedly condemned the Australian federal police raid yesterday on a News Corp journalist’s home in the...
MEAA protests over police raid on Canberra journalist’s home
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The raid by Australian Federal Police on the home of award-winning Canberra Press Gallery journalist today has been condemned by the...
Prabowo camp to ‘report US journalist’ over Indonesian poll strategy exposé
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The party backing a presidential challenger in today's Indonesian general election claims it is reporting an independent US journalist to police...
Strip medals from French Rainbow Warrior saboteurs, says Star-Times
Pacific Media Centre's Alistar Kata profiles the legacy of activism from the 1985 Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Video:...
Selwyn Manning: More intrusive spy laws loom for NZ
Evening Report editorial by Selwyn Manning
The New Zealand government is considering the recommendations of a former deputy prime minister and lawyer as it embarks...