Reviews

December 24, 2020

Review: Wealth and New Zealand

NZ Presents Horror-thriller: “Before the Darkness”

New covid book exposes global media bias, racism and stigmatisation

Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives

Behind scenes probe of Bougainville struggle for independence tops PJR

October 4, 2021

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

June 20, 2016

Bowie reflections part 1: riding the tsunami

January 18, 2016

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

January 17, 2023

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

September 19, 2022

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

April 3, 2015

Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched

February 22, 2023

Review: New Zealand Opera Defines Tosca The Beguiling Tragedy

September 21, 2015

A Listener flashback: The sacking of an editor

May 9, 2020

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

September 28, 2015

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

July 11, 2020

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

July 22, 2020

How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior...

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December 6, 2024

Carolyn Skelton: The collaborative principle: computing with Ubuntu

September 10, 2015

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

January 28, 2018

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

January 27, 2023

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

June 10, 2022

Single Asian Female: A reflection

May 6, 2021

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

May 18, 2020

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

September 9, 2022

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

November 9, 2024

Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel

May 7, 2018

A timely climate media strategy to empower citizens

February 7, 2018

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

December 2, 2024

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

July 15, 2024

NZ Presents Horror-thriller: “Before the Darkness”

December 18, 2015

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

March 6, 2020

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

April 23, 2019

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

Endangered – the frontline journalism of outrage

January 15, 2017

Review: Ever the Land documentary

November 10, 2015

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

June 4, 2015

Sweeney Todd A Horror Story Then and Now – Not Quite...

September 21, 2016

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

November 25, 2023

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

April 18, 2024

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

January 1, 2023

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

April 16, 2019

Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

July 16, 2018

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