From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific
David Robie also blogs at Café Pacific COMMENTARY: By David Robie, author of Eyes of Fire The legacy of nuclear…
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Helen Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of its independent foreign policy in the face of gathering global storm clouds.
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NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners back Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally
Moana activists, campaigners, scholars, researchers and Green MPs gathered last Sunday in a show of solidarity for Tahiti’s Ma’ohi Lives Matter rally at Auckland University of Technology and vowed to work towards independence for the French-occupied Pacific territory.
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From nuclear refugees to climate justice – the Rainbow Warrior legacy
FLASHBACK 35 YEARS: The bombed ship’s pioneering environmental work has since been carried on by Rainbow Warrior II and the state-of-the-art eco campaign ship Rainbow Warrior III. Today the focus is on climate refugees, the lack of adequate health compensation for the Polynesians who suffered radiation and failure to provide proper clean-up of the French nuclear testing zones that are still off-limits after almost a quarter century. Tests were carried out by balloon, derrick, in the lagoon and in a series of underground shafts which have threatened the stability of the 60 km long atoll, leaving it fractured “like Swiss cheese”.
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This week in history – the Rainbow Warrior bombing as told to ABC’s Nightlife
Pacific environmental and political journalist David Robie has recalled the bombing of the original Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior 33 years ago in an interview with host Sarah Macdonald on the ABC’s Nightlife “This Week in History” programme.
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Rendezvous with the ‘no nukes’ Vanuatu cover girl after 33 years
“No nukes”: A remarkable scene in Port Vila’s Independence Park in 1983 during the region’s second Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Movement conference revisited three decades on.