Tag: UK
No subs with nuclear arms for Fiji waters, says PM Rabuka
By Repeka Nasiko in Suva
Nuclear-armed submarines are not welcome in Fiji waters.
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said this as he stressed he did not support...
As Australia signs up for nuclear subs, NZ faces hard decisions...
ANALYSIS: By Nicholas Khoo, University of Otago
Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating’s recent strident criticism of the A$368 billion nuclear-powered submarine deal announced under...
NZ aid worker remains missing in Ukraine – the tragedy of...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
The humanitarian aid worker Andrew Bagshaw, who has dual New Zealand and British citizenship, has been missing in...
Gavin Ellis: News media face distrust by association with social media
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
A new study suggests that the news media’s tanking levels of public trust may be made worse merely by association with...
Fiji hosts US-led multinational military exercises on Pacific ‘threats’
RNZ Pacific
Mortar demonstrations involving military forces from five nations have taken place in Fiji.
The tactical field training exercise called Exercise Cartwheel was a US...
IFJ calls on Canberra to act against Assange extradition order to...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Following the United Kingdom’s decision to extradite Julian Assange to face trial in the United States, the International Federation of Journalists’...
Advocacy group calls on NZ to ‘end silence’ over Assange extradition
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A media freedom advocacy group has called on New Zealand to end its silence over the Julian Assange case in what...
Assange extradition order a ‘dangerous assault on international journalism’, says MEAA
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The UK government’s decision to uphold the application by the US Department of Justice to extradite Australian publisher Julian Assange imperils...
Assumptions vs facts – how the Julian Assange case confronts our...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Selwyn Manning in Auckland
The dilemma facing whistleblowers, journalists and publishers who risk it all to help the world’s people to become...
Samoa Observer: The fallacy of a nuclear submarine deal for peace
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
It perhaps wasn’t a remarkable coincidence that last month Samoa’s former Ambassador to the United Nations called on...
How corporations make money out of ‘feel-good’ feminism
ANALYSIS: By Catherine Rottenberg
A few days ago, I received a message from my son's secondary school announcing that it would be celebrating International Women's...
























