Tag: Kanaky
New Caledonia’s timeline of injustice to independence?
Key dates in New Caledonia's colonial history:
1774: James Cook “discovers” Grande Terre island for Europe and renames it New Caledonia because the landscapes remind...
New Caledonia vote stirs painful memories – and a hopeful future
David Robie, who reported from New Caledonia during the 1980s for Islands Business magazine, The Australian, New Zealand Times and other media, returned to...
Gallery: Global media cover historic New Caledonia independence referendum
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 100 journalists covered the historic New Caledonian independence referendum last weekend, with media from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and...
MSG backing Kanak independence ‘on the quiet’, says campaigner
By RNZ Pacific
A leading New Caledonian pro-independence politician, Victor Tutugoro, says governments of Melanesian countries have quietly supported the New Caledonian independence cause.
Tutugoro, second...
New Caledonia blockade tension fails to mar French PM’s talks on...
By David Robie in Nouméa
French security forces moved in today to clean up the main road near an indigenous Kanak tribal area after a...
French human rights body warns over ‘colonial reality’ before key Pacific...
Caledonia TV's report on the recent indigenous Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) conference on a "post-independence" future for New Caledonia. Video: NCI TV...
New Caledonia: Does the French public actually want to ‘set it...
Things may be coming to a head over the coming New Caledonia referendum, the independence struggle in New Zealand’s own region, but there is...
New Caledonian independence ‘in their hearts’, but also a ‘scary’ future
Kanaks and long-time New Caledonian settlers get to vote on their future on November 4. But, as Michael Andrew of Asia Pacific Journalism points...
Reconciling New Caledonia: A vote to clear the air on independence?
In the final instalment of a three-part series, Dr Lee Duffield in Noumea assesses some of the options and omens.
It looks like a simple...
Decolonisation in New Caledonia – who decides the future?
In this second of three articles from Noumea, Dr Lee Duffield learns about multicultural Kanaky/New Caledonia and the events that led to their referendum...
New Caledonia celebrates Bastille Day and thinks about independence
IN-DEPTH: By Dr Lee Duffield, recently in Kanaky/New Caledonia
The Quatorze Juillet (14 July) events in Noumea this month, as in any small French city,...
Blood in the Pacific: 30 years on from the Ouvéa Island...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Max Uechtritz
On Saturday, 30 years ago in 1988, I smelled death for the first time – literally.
A sickening, almost suffocating, stench...
Macron visits Ouvéa on anniversary of defining 1988 hostage crisis
FLASHBACK: The controversial docudrama Rebellion, screened at the 2012 NZ International Film Festival by director Mathieu Kassovitz and featuring some Kanak relatives of the...
Vanuatu PM Salwai seeks UN probe on West Papua human rights...
UN video sourced from the West Papua Liberation Organisation.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas has expressed his country’s concern about the...
