Sunday, February 19, 2012
Afghanistan's mineral wealth has long been seen as a potential source of income that could sustain the troubled nation after US-led international forces withdraw in 2014. Afghanistan has massive bills to pay...
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Mark Pearson: ANALYSIS: The international media freedom group Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF – Reporters Without Borders) has released its 2011-12 World Press Freedom Index and Australia has slipped 12...
Friday, February 10, 2012
Graham Davis: Most countries have laws that prevent religious and racial vilification. Most responsible media outlets – including those on the internet – excise comments designed to inflame religious and...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Ben Bohane ANALYSIS: Papua New Guinea’s power struggle appears locked in political combat, with an old Sepik strongman trying to claw back power from a new generation Highlander who made a pre-emptive raid on...
Monday, February 6, 2012
Clive Hamilton ANALYSIS: If Gina Rinehart succeeds in getting a controlling interest in Fairfax Media, the only competition to the Murdoch stable of newspapers in Australia - and the largest media group in New Zealand,...
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Peter Thompson: ANALYSIS: Christmas may be over, but the commercial humbug surrounding the future of public broadcasting has continued unabated. Policymakers and the mainstream media have been Scrooge-like in their...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
By the PMC news desk
A renegade retired colonel who claimed to have seized control of Papua New Guinea’s military today in a bid to restore court-ordered Sir Michael Somare’s prime ministership has...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
David Robie: Fiji needs all the support it can get after the devastating floods that have hit the western parts of the main island of Viti Levu.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Linda Clark ANALYSIS: Opening the first public session of the inquiry into the culture and ethics of the British press, Lord Justice Leveson said that at the inquiry's heart was one simple question: "Who guards...
Friday, January 20, 2012
Simon Scott and Naing Ko Ko
ANALYSIS: For a long time, it was easy for us to hold an opinion on Burma. It fitted neatly into the classic dichotomy of good and evil. The regime – made up of cruel, despotic...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Nigel Moffiet: ANALYSIS: Reported incidents of human rights abuses inflicted on the West Papuan people at the mercy of the Indonesian military includes widespread violence, killings, torture, disappearance, rape, sexual...
Monday, January 16, 2012
JAKARTA: A survey jointly conducted by two Indonesian non-government organisations – the Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan) and the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) – has found that torture is a common...
Monday, January 2, 2012
Jason Brown: Kia orana M. President, Fourteen years ago today [15 December 2011], a journalist named JPK disappeared from the island of Tahiti.
Monday, January 2, 2012
David Robie: Curious how much of our media privileges the elite sources, yet attempts to marginalise independent media groups that are providing critical news and analysis on the stories left out of the mainstream news...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Thaku Ranjit Singh OPINION: On 15 December 2011, I graduated with a Masters in Communication Studies (MCS) from Auckland University of Technology. My thesis was based on research into George Speight’s coup of 2000...
