Reviews

September 21, 2016

Review: New Zealand Opera Defines Tosca The Beguiling Tragedy

A cultural treasure: James K Baxter – of time and timelessness

Review: New Zealand Opera’s performance of Cinderella is the real deal

Carolyn Skelton: The collaborative principle: computing with Ubuntu

Review: The Magic Flute – It Felt Like Mozart Was There

June 20, 2016

Bowie reflections part 2: rocking revolutions?

January 20, 2016

“Roots” (2016): persistence of power… and the enduring spirit of resistance

August 10, 2016

Fear & the ‘fool’: “The Great American Scream”

September 28, 2015

Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

February 19, 2019

How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace

April 23, 2019

Bowie reflections part 1: riding the tsunami

January 18, 2016

Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka...

July 22, 2020

Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

July 16, 2018

An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia...

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January 8, 2025

A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest...

April 18, 2024

“Roots” (2016): enslavement and the politics of naming

August 9, 2016

NZ Presents Horror-thriller: “Before the Darkness”

December 18, 2015

Endangered – the frontline journalism of outrage

January 15, 2017

Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’

January 28, 2018

Review: Ever the Land documentary

November 10, 2015

West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of development or...

May 18, 2020

The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...

July 3, 2025

Review: Wealth and New Zealand

December 8, 2015

A tribute to a Pacific visionary – remembering Epeli Hau’ofa

March 18, 2024

Single Asian Female: A reflection

May 6, 2021

Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel

May 7, 2018

Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched

February 22, 2023

Late Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 Pacific royal tour teaches us much about...

September 9, 2022

Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author

July 11, 2020

A Listener flashback: The sacking of an editor

May 9, 2020

A timely climate media strategy to empower citizens

February 7, 2018

Indonesia’s political system has ‘failed’ its minorities – like West Papuans

April 16, 2019

Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from...

November 25, 2023

Pioneering saga of early Otago horse whisperer author’s dream come true

December 24, 2020

Dame Valerie Adams sets record straight in a new documentary

October 22, 2022

Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in...

July 15, 2024

Murdered journalists a ‘hurdle’ for Jakarta in concealing Timor invasion

March 6, 2020

Owen Wilkes, the intellect behind New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance

January 17, 2023

Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’

November 9, 2024

A new book argues Julian Assange is being tortured. Will Australia’s...

June 10, 2022

Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw...

September 19, 2022

‘Lots of information isn’t secret, it’s just hard to find’ –...

January 1, 2023

Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement

January 27, 2023

Moana 2: The magic is missing in this half-baked Pacific sequel