Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update A simple explanation of this week’s military and political developments in the Pacific
Trouble in New Caledonia This week violent rioting broke out in Noumea, the capital of France’s Pacific colony, New Caledonia. …
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Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update – A simple explanation of this week’s military and political developments in the Pacific
South China Sea, a multi-national response to Chinese aggression On 7 April, Australia, Japan and the United States started a…
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PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024
Pacific Journalism Review, the Pacific and New Zealand’s only specialist media research journal, is celebrating 30 years of publishing this year — and it will mark the occasion at the Pacific Media International Conference in Fiji in July.
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Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update
NATO countries plan more exercises in the Pacific In mid-2024, German, Spanish and French aircraft will participate in a series…
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How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO freeze
Pushed into the background by the relentless sad statistics and pandemic doomsday stories around the globe are some other stories in the Pacific that normally struggle to get an airing in mainstream media.
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Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic
While the Pacific infection rates are still relatively low, many governments have been responding with panic, paranoia and creeping authoritarianism, especially in relation to freedom of information, media independence and constructive and accurate communication, so vital in these critical times.
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Rappler challenges Duterte’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back
As well as attacks on Rappler, President Duterte has also recently targeted the country’s main local TV station, ABS-CBN, and the Philippine Daily Inquirer with threats and punitive red tape in response to criticism of his autocratic leadership style.
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Why the PNG election is heading the country towards ‘dictatorship’
“We are inching closer towards dictatorship and the ensuing bloodshed and violence that must come from the hostility towards it. But, like lemmings and sheep, we are led to that reality with little resistance at all. Is this the Papua New Guinea we all believed in once upon a time?” — Oro Governor Gary Juffa
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Rave hospitality, but Indonesia fails West Papua with media freedom hypocrisy
“Indonesian hospitality was given a rave notice this week for hosting World Press Freedom Day 2017, but it was also given a huge black mark for its ‘gagging’ of free discussion over West Papua violations.” The author was one of just two New Zealanders among 1300 media people at WPFD2017.
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – Change in the air for West Papua? Melanesia leads the way.
It is great to watch the Solomon Islands establishing itself as a champion of human rights for West Papua.