Reviews

December 24, 2020

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

New covid book exposes global media bias, racism and stigmatisation

Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

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

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

September 19, 2022

Review: New Zealand Opera Defines Tosca The Beguiling Tragedy

September 21, 2015

Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

July 16, 2018

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

June 20, 2016

Review: Ever the Land documentary

November 10, 2015

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

August 10, 2016

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

April 23, 2019

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

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

April 3, 2015

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

January 28, 2018

Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched

February 22, 2023

New covid book exposes global media bias, racism and stigmatisation

August 30, 2021

Carolyn Skelton: The collaborative principle: computing with Ubuntu

September 10, 2015

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

September 9, 2022

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

March 6, 2020

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

March 18, 2024

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

January 27, 2023

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

November 25, 2023

Endangered – the frontline journalism of outrage

January 15, 2017

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

Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel

May 7, 2018

Single Asian Female: A reflection

May 6, 2021

A Listener flashback: The sacking of an editor

May 9, 2020

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

December 24, 2020

A timely climate media strategy to empower citizens

February 7, 2018

Bowie reflections part 2: rocking revolutions?

January 20, 2016

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

January 1, 2023

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

January 17, 2023

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

September 28, 2015

Behind scenes probe of Bougainville struggle for independence tops PJR

October 4, 2021

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

April 18, 2024

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

November 9, 2024

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

April 16, 2019

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

July 22, 2020

Review: Wealth and New Zealand

December 8, 2015

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

June 10, 2022

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

August 9, 2016

NZ Presents Horror-thriller: “Before the Darkness”