Friday, July 15, 2011 - 17:53
Brother Number One, a New Zealand documentary about the torture and murder of yachtsman Kerry Hamill by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1978, has been launched at international film festivals in New...
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Alex Perrottet and David Robie: This research report covers the period 1 July 2010-30 June 2011 and examines the trends in the Pacific region. In addition to Pacific Islands Forum member nations, it...
Friday, April 6, 2012
Jo Chandler and AAP SYDNEY (Sydney Morning Herald / AAP /Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea's government yesterday voted to defer mid-year national elections for six months.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
AUCKLAND (New Zealand Herald/Pacific Media Watch): It should not have taken the police more than three months to decide no charges should be laid in the so-called "teapot tapes"...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
JAYAPURA (Human Rights Watch / AFP / Pacific Media Watch): The Indonesian government should drop the politically motivated treason charges against five Papuan activists who have been convicted...
Friday, March 16, 2012
Rodney Tiffen
OPINION: Wild claims that the Finkelstein report recommendations on media regulation increase the threat of government censorship are wrong.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Mark Pearson ANALYSIS: The Finkelstein (and Ricketson) Independent Media Inquiry report released in Australia is a substantial and well researched document with a dangerously flawed core...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
NZ Law Commission: Who are the news media and how should they be regulated? OPINION: This rather ambitious question encapsulates the first two limbs of the terms of reference given to us by the...
Monday, February 27, 2012
Philippa McDonald: After almost three years the censors have left Fiji's newsrooms. But has it made much of a difference - is it really making freedom of speech?
Monday, February 20, 2012
Former Philippines President Fidel V. Ramos
OPINION: MANILA (Manila Bulletin / Pacific Media Watch): It is time again to commemorate our EDSA People Power Revolution. We mark its 26th...
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Rachna Lal
SUVA (Fiji Sun / Pacific Media Watch): The New Zealand government is blocking the national Fiji Broadcasting Corporation TV service from showing Television New Zealand news and...
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Timoci Vula
SUVA (The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch): Ordinary citizens have to be mindful of the Media Decree and the Public Order Amendment Decree when they make any opposing statement...
Saturday, February 18, 2012
SYDNEY (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): A leading researcher on West Papua says the trial of five Papuan leaders for treason has hallmarks of being another public relations disaster...
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Serelisoni Moceica
SUVA (The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch): The Citizens Constitutional Forum and Fiji Media Watch have come out strongly against the State Proceedings Amendment Decree....
Thursday, February 16, 2012
SUVA (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): The editor-in-chief of the Fiji Times, Fred Wesley, says self-censorship remains the biggest danger for Fiji’s media.
He says his paper...
