Legal Issues

REGION: Australia gags secret atrocity papers, protest over repression in West Papua and 'hate speech' ruling on Fiji TV

5 Apr

Pacific Scoop: Australia wins legal battle to suppress secret papers on East Timor atrocities

5 Apr

Café Pacific: MIDA’s chair finds Fiji TV guilty of ‘hate speech’ and blasts bloggers

4 Apr

FIJI: New electoral decree fair but with concerns, says academic

29 Mar

FIJI: MIDA plans new political monitoring of election reporting

27 Mar

NZ: Press Council to offer membership to blogs in digital revamp

24 Mar

Australia turns blind eye to disruption of rule of law on Nauru thanks to asylum seeker politics

22 Mar

Book launch: Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific

WEST PAPUA: 76 political prisoners behind bars, says new report

13 Mar

Draft Samoan media bill provides 'public interest' protection for journalists' sources

10 Mar

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Pacific Media Watch article

1 Dec

REGION: Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges ahead

AUCKLAND (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Pacific journalism and media researchers have gathered “live” in Auckland and “virtually” from Australia, Indonesia, and the region to showcase their projects and initiatives – and they spoke of the key challenges ahead.

Pacific Media Watch article

1 Dec

NZ: Academics, journalists, students raise West Papuan flag in NZ ‘solidarity’ gesture

AUCKLAND (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Academics, journalists and students today raised the West Papuan flag – an act banned in Indonesia and punishable by up to 15 years in jail – at a Pacific Media Centre-hosted symposium in Auckland today.

The protest marked the 59th anniversary of the day West Papuans first raised their flag of independence, known as the Morning Star, on 1 December 1961.

Publication

15 Feb

Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific

Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific
by David Robie

Publication

16 Oct

Toktok 40/ Spring 2020

COURAGEOUS WOMEN FEATURED IN PJR'S MELANESIAN MEDIA FREEDOM EDITION

Event

ACMC2021 - Change, Adaptation and Innovation: Media, Communication and Culture

ACMC2021 CONFERENCE RATIONALE - November 25-27

Event

Pacific Media Centre 2020 and Beyond: Highlights and New Horizons

Join us for a roller-coaster ride with the Pacific Media Centre : Te Amokura research and publication student and staff team for an end-of-year showcase – how we faced the coronavirus challenges with some lively outputs on our environmental, human rights and social justice programme. Plus, plans for the future.

December 1, 2020, 9am-12noon, WG224A