Better Pacific media freedom record … but let’s get real
MIL OSI – Analysis by David Robie – Published with permission of Café Pacific IT’S GREAT to get some bouquets on media freedom issues instead of brickbacks in the Pacific for a change. But let’s not...
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From a Coconet Spy Tempest to TPPA Secrecy
By David Robie – Café Pacific. The “TPPA – no way” rally at the weekend in Auckland – one of more than a score of New Zealand cities hosting protests against the controversial proposed free trade...
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Climate change, environmental journalism and better media ethics
By David Robie – Café Pacific Headline: Climate change, environmental journalism and better media ethics Pacific Media Watch editor Alistar Kata interviewing Kiribati Independent editor Taberannang...
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David Robie on New Dawn FM and the Bougainville mining lobby machine
By David Robie – Café Pacific PNG: Panguna Mine. PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH’S Alistar Kata has just filed an interesting report about the virtual “shut out” of no-mining critics in Bougainville in the lead-up...
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Time to end West Papua atrocities, isolation – and back its Pacific claims
The “Free West Papua” item on TVNZ’s independent programme Tagata Pasifika. West Papuan membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group is now critical. By DAVID ROBIE Cafe Pacific. THE TIME is long...
View ArticleFiji needs independent watchdog to watch MIDA for future elections
MIL OSI – Source: Dr David Robie – Café Pacific – Analysis published with permission of Café Pacific WHILE the Multinational Observer Group’s final report on the first post-coup Fiji general election...
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World Press Freedom Day: Fiji’s media still struggling to regain ‘free and fair’
Analysis by David Robie, Pacific Media Centre. A soldier votes in last year’s election restoring civilian rule in Fiji, where the media are still struggling to achieve freedom of the press. Image: Mads...
View ArticleRainbow Warrior reflections – new Eyes of Fire on way
MIL OSI Analysis – Source: Dr David Robie – Café Pacific – Rainbow Warrior reflections – new Eyes of Fire on way CAFÉ PACIFIC offers a bit of nostalgia. In just over a couple of months, New Zealand and...
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Real media freedom or MSG ‘brownie points’ over West Papua?
By David Robie – Café Pacific – Analysis-Reportage: Freed West Papuan political prisoner Numbungga Telenggen (left) is hugged by a supporterin Jayapura at the weekend. Image: HRW/AFP. MEDIA freedom in...
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David Robie on Fiji, PNG lead betrayal, but still West Papuans triumph
Article by David Robie. This item was also published on Café Pacific. THE Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders’ summit in Honiara this week must go down as the most shameful since the organisation was...
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Rainbow Warrior redux: How French nuclear terrorism changed the Pacific
Eyes of Fire (fifth edition) launched Friday July 10, 2015. Opinion piece by Professor David Robie of AUT’s School of Communication Studies – David travelled on board the Rainbow Warrior for 10 weeks...
View ArticleZinedine Zidane scores wonder try for France legends against Toulon
This article was first published on Café Pacific Zinedine’s wonder try. By Jack Gaughan for MailOnline FRANCE 98 victors have taken on European rugby union champions Toulon in a charity match – with...
View ArticleThe ‘sanitised narrative’ of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing
This article was first published on Café Pacific By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of BBC News The United States has always insisted that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to...
View ArticleRainbow Warrior … launch of the new ‘last voyage’ and bombing book
This article was first published on Café Pacific DELAYED video of last month’s launch of David Robie’s new Eyes of Fire edition about the last voyage and the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior,...
View Article‘TPPA – walk away’ rally welcomes West Papuan leader Octo Mote
Analysis by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific WHILE New Zealand protesters were giving an emphatic thumbs down to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership corporate slap in...
View ArticleDavid Robie on Rainbows, warriors and ship naming
Analysis by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific WHEN the 30th anniversary edition of my book Eyes of Fire (Little Island Press) was published on the day last month marking the...
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Rainbow Warrior bombing ‘should have led to French Watergate’, says saboteur
This article was first published on Café Pacific ANALYSIS By David Robie THE unmasked French bomber who sank the Rainbow Warrior 30 years ago had some revealing comments during his interviews with the...
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‘World Without War’– and a conference to help make it happen?
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific MORE than 40 people with wide-ranging expertise will pool their knowledge and ideas and propose an action plan for peace at a...
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Bikini bombs lawsuit inspires support at NZ peace conference
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific BEFORE Parisian engineer Louis Réard named the sexy two-piece swimsuit a “bikini” in 1946, it was the name of an obscure Pacific...
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From ‘reality’ TV to the reality of documentary making – the new civic impulse
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific THE RISE of popular factual television has threatened the key claim on “reality” of documentary practice but there is hope on the...
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