Articles

Fiji’s Constitution Commission: No ‘push over’ but a tough challenge

Monday, May 14, 2012

ANALYSIS: It’s a pity the Pacific Islands Forum foreign ministers visited Fiji when they did. Had they waited two weeks until after the arrival of Professor Yash Ghai they would have been far more positive...

Café Pacific: Why development or peace journalism? The real issue is independent Pacific journalism

Saturday, May 12, 2012

David Robie: It is astounding how misinformed and shallow the thinking of many journalists around the Pacific has been when faced with a quickfire debate on such terms as “development journalism” and “...

Tonga struggles down long road to democracy

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Kalafi Moala OPINION: As Crown Prince and Minister of Foreign Affairs before his elevation to the Throne, King George V was asked for his thoughts about Tonga becoming a democracy.

Letters to the editor

Monday, May 7, 2012

Open letter to Dr Wadan Narsey and the blog Coup 4.5 gatekeepers: Response to Dr Narsey's article Fiji's cancerous conspiracies of silence.

Media has vital role as Papua New Guinea democracy guardian

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Peter Aitsi OPINION: The Constitution of Papua New Guinea under Section 46 Subsection 2 Item b reads:

'Edge of reality' - the PINA media summit exposed

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Graham Davis OPINION: Sometimes in a long career in journalism – and Grubsheet has been a scribe for nigh on 40 years – one reads or hears an account of an event at which one was present that bears so little...

Pacific tilting west to PNG – and Super Power rivalry

Friday, April 27, 2012

Wadan Narsey COMMENTARY: If this was a news release by a geologist, alarm bells would be ringing around the Pacific and international scientific community.

Pacific media 'at peace' after bitter infighting over Fiji

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Graham Davis OPINION: The South Pacific media has been wracked by deep division over how journalists should respond to the 2006 Fiji coup and Frank Bainimarama’s continuing hold on power.

Lack of quality media hinders democratic development, says Tongan author

Monday, April 23, 2012

Anthony Haas REVIEW: An Auckland-based Tongan academic’s reporting and analysis of contemporary Tongan provides an agenda for media, opposition and others who should operate the kingdom’s democratic process.

Getting away with murder

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Committee to Protect Journalists: ANALYSIS: Deadly, unpunished violence against the press rose sharply in Pakistan and Mexico, continuing a dark, years-long trend in both nations, the Committee to Protect Journalists...

Huge electoral mismatch in Queensland elections - but no military coup

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Wadan Narsey: ANALYSIS: The state of Queensland has gone through an astonishing elections result last month: the Australian Labor Party (ALP) crashed from 49 seats out of 89, to a mere 7 seats.

The cold, hard new world of NZ's digital communications divide

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

David Beatson COMMENTARY: New Zealand is entering the multimedia digital age. Are we ready for this? I don’t think so.

Not perfect, but an important and overdue account of NZ journalism

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Alan Samson BOOK REVIEW: Scooped can be appreciated for what it is: a thorough academic, sometimes theoretical canvas of many aspects of New Zealand journalism. It is not a perfect account, but it is an important...

Café Pacific: Peacemaker Moala helps bury the hatchet over PINA tensions

Monday, April 2, 2012

David Robie: Whether it was the 21st birthday (as celebrated by the cake at a gala dinner) or 40th anniversary (as flagged by a former president in the opening speech notes), the Fiji milestones for the Pacific Islands...