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7 Aug

NZ: 'We shouldn't rest on our laurels', warn nuclear free activists

13 Jun

Flashback to NZ’s nuclear-free law 1987: Challenging Goliath

11 Jun

PNG: Police chief stands down expat security contractor over ‘illegals’

18 May

Time for independence from a crumbling US empire

17 Apr

NZ: Military chief’s Op Burnham account highlights key Afghan legal concerns

3 Apr

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26 Mar

NZ: SAS soldier backs up Afghan raid claims – Herald calls for inquiry

24 Mar

NZ: Authors of new book call for full inquiry into SAS 'betrayal' allegations

22 Mar

TIMOR-LESTE: Brother seeks answers from Australia over NZ death at Balibo

18 Dec

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Pacific Media Watch article

25 May

NZ: Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher restores NZ ownership for $1

AUCKLAND (RNZ News/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Centre): Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1 to return the media company to New Zealand ownership.

The sale is expected to be completed by May 31.

“Our plan is to transition the ownership of Stuff to give staff a direct stake in the business as shareholders,” Boucher said in a statement.

Pacific Media Watch article

23 May

WEST PAPUA: Sing the pandemic away – Papuan rapper, police chief join in virus fight

JAYAPURA (The Jakarta Post/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Centre): In a bid to advise people to follow health instructions to contain the spread of the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in the West Papua region capital of Jayapura, Papuan rapper Epo D’fenomeno has collaborated with Jayapura police chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Gustav R. Urbinas.

To avoid making his song sound just like another PSA song or jingle, Epo said he wrapped the song in a love theme so that youngsters could relate to it.

Publication

17 Feb

Pacific Media Centre Annual Review 2019

The Pacific Media Centre (PMC) had another busy and productive year publishing, researching and providing advocacy on several Asia-Pacific issues.

Publication

31 Jul

Toktok No 39 / Winter 2019

PMC UNVEILS CREATIVE SHOWCASE

Event

Amnesty On Campus: Human rights and Southeast Asia

6pm - 8 pm, Wednesday, March 18
Pat Hanan Room, Arts 2, University of Auckland

CANCELLED AS A PUBLIC HEALTH PRECAUTION

AMNESTY ON CAMPUS UoA: HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Speakers:
Media freedom and Southeast Human Rights: Focus on the Philippines - Professor David Robie, director, Pacific Media Centre
West Papua - Author Maire Leadbeater
Violations against the Rohingya - Kyaw

Event

Melanesian Media Freedom Forum 2019

MELANESIAN MEDIA FREEDOM FORUM 2019 - November 11-13
The Melanesian Media Freedom Forum was developed to respond to increasing media repression in Melanesia and to future-proof press freedom, though trans-national regional co-operation and knowledge-sharing among Melanesian journalists, editors, publishers, press-freedom advocates and journalism scholars.