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David Robie
PROFILE: By Mong Palatino Global Voices has interviewed veteran Aotearoa New Zealand writer and educator David Robie who discussed the state of Pacific media, journalism education, and the role of the press in addressing decolonisation and the climate crisis. Professor Robie was among the 2024 New Zealand Order of Merit awardees and on the inaugural…
COMMENTARY: By Saige England Being passive must come after being passionate and active. Some know this. Some don’t. So many people still don’t know this. I keep hoping they will learn, know, care and do something. I recall a line about journalism many years ago, that good journalists write the truth about social issues so…
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle Something significant and revelatory just happened in the New Zealand Parliament. I was present at today’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee meeting when things kicked off between the Foreign Minister and humanitarian aid activist Hāhona Ormsby, one of the New Zealanders who survived kidnapping and beatings by Israeli forces in May.…
It isn’t Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran — one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of…
By Antony Phillips in The Vertical For this edition of Kāpū Tī with Antony, I sit down with journalist and academic, Dr David Robie. A professor of journalism who has worked in Aotearoa and abroad, David is a Central Aucklander and regular visitor who is highly engaged in the City Centre. We sit down for…
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle There was only one moment when I was interviewing him last week that Mousa Taher broke down and cried. It was a surprising, pivotal moment in the interview. He had just made it back to Aotearoa New Zealand from Israeli detention. Of course, we covered the ordeal — the beatings, the…
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – As World Press Freedom Day rapidly approaches and Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Israeli government for its massacre of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine, New Zealand journalist David Robie reflects in a speech at Auckland’s Te Komititanga Square today. MEDIA FREEDOM: By David Robie In ... <a title="Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/israels-diabolical-killing-machine-and-how-it-targets-journalists-2/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists">Read more</a>
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Updated research has shown up lingering headaches over the impacts of decades-long nuclear testing in the Pacific islands and interventions of outside powers, amid growing threats from climate change, writes Dr Lee Duffield for the Independent Australia. REVIEW: By Lee Duffield The journalist, professor and peace ... <a title="Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/nuclear-now-climate-change-new-book-on-how-great-powers-have-plagued-the-pacific-2/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific">Read more</a>
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – OBITUARY: By Aubrey Belford, Australia and South Pacific regional editor of OCCRP The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Dan McGarry, the organisation’s Pacific editor, who died yesterday in Brisbane, Australia, at the age of 62. A ... <a title="Corruption reporting project mourns the loss of Dan McGarry, pioneering Pacific editor and investigative journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/corruption-reporting-project-mourns-the-loss-of-dan-mcgarry-pioneering-pacific-editor-and-investigative-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Corruption reporting project mourns the loss of Dan McGarry, pioneering Pacific editor and investigative journalist">Read more</a>
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact on the whole world. Israel has bombed the world’s largest natural gas field in ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Iran is forcing the world to care about US-Israeli warmongering" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/21/caitlin-johnstone-iran-is-forcing-the-world-to-care-about-us-israeli-warmongering/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Iran is forcing the world to care about US-Israeli warmongering">Read more</a>
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Asia Pacific Report A new documentary film on the devastating “ecocide” happening in West Papua will be screened as a world premiere at a weekend solidarity forum in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau this weekend. The 90min feature film, Pesta Babi (“Pig Feast”) — Colonialism In Our Time, ... <a title="Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/06/devastating-new-ecocide-film-to-premiere-at-west-papua-solidarity-forum/" aria-label="Read more about Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum">Read more</a>
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle When I heard the terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than 165 children this week in an elementary school in Minab in Southern Iran it took me back to a wonderful day I spent in Isfahan in 2018. ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/03/eugene-doyle-minab-school-massacre-hands-off-the-children-of-iran-donald-trump/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald Trump">Read more</a>