Tag: Extremism
Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions
Pacific Media Watch
Australians are being urged to stay united following the horrific events in Sydney last week, reports the ABC's Saturday Extra programme.
Five women...
NZ elections 2023: Green Party, Te Pāti Māori call out ‘harmful...
RNZ News
Green Party co-leader James Shaw has compared the language of New Zealand First leader Winston Peters to former US president Donald Trump, saying...
The extremism visible at NZ’s Parliament protest has been growing for...
ANALYSIS: By Paul Spoonley, Massey University
It has been interesting to watch media and public commentators come to the realisation -- sometimes slowly -- that...
NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News reporter
New Zealand's Department of Corrections has revealed more details about the LynnMall terrorist's violent behaviour while he was remanded...
NZ police had no dedicated team to scan internet before mosque...
By Phil Pennington, RNZ News reporter
It took seven months for the New Zealand police to set up their first team for scanning the internet...
As Joe Biden becomes president, US still reels from deadly consequences...
ANALYSIS: By Jennifer S. Hunt, Australian National University
Every four years on January 20, the US exercises a key tenant of democratic government: the peaceful...
‘We all need to act on terror’ – PM says NZ,...
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that NZ and France will lead global efforts to try to end the use of social...
Christchurch mosque terror attacks: ‘Our gun laws will change’, says PM
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses the nation after yesterday's tragic mosque massacres in Christchurch. Video: RNZ
By RNZ
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she...
John Minto: Urewera 10 years on – recounting the lessons of...
On the 10th anniversary of the Urewera raids, we should recount the lessons – and we should remember.
Breathless police and media commentary about a...
Terror in Indonesia – the threat posed by returning Islamic State...
By Jewel Topsfield of The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta
Heru Kurnia, an Indonesian who joined Islamic State in Syria, is describing watching children kick...
CPJ condemns attack on Afghan state television — at least 6...
Al Jazeera's report on the attack on the National Radio Television of Afghanistan office in Jalalabad.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has strongly condemned the...
ASEAN lawmakers alarmed at ‘blasphemy’ conviction of Ahok
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Jakarta on the sentencing of Ahok to two years in prison for insulting the Quran.
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk
Parliamentarians...
AUT vice-chancellor gives ‘profoundly shocking’ message in wake of Orlando massacre
Vice-chancellor Derek McCormack of Auckland University of Technology has described the weekend massacre in Orlando, Florida, as "profoundly shocking" and he has extended the...