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Federal government’s crackdown on free speech affects all Australians


ANALYSIS: By Paul Gregoire
Australia’s two federal combating antisemitism bills, the New South Wales laws providing the means to shutdown street protests and move on stationary public assemblies, along with…

RSF condemns verdict in ‘fabricated’ case against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio

PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
The Paris-based global media freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the guilty verdict against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio whose case has been challenged…

One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on track to join world’s worst press freedom predators



REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS
After winning re-election in 2024, Donald Trump promised to be a dictator “on day one”.

When it comes to press freedom, he has kept his word…

Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation


Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the Republic…

Adelaide Writers' Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum




  • COMMENTARY: By Kim Wingerei and Michael West in Sydney
    Adelaide Writers’ Week, a core part of South Australia’s premier cultural event, the Adelaide Festival, has finally been cancelled in its…

Hot off the press - our first Pacific Media edition


ASIA PACIFIC MEDIA NETWORK
We are delighted to take delivery of the inaugural edition of Pacific Media, our new research journal.

Packed with cutting edge research from Australia, New…

New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure


PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News
Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their history, marked by governance issues, political instability, geopolitical…

‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on

TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo
The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81.

He was a passionate advocate for…

Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development, and democracy

Pacific Media
The Pacific Media journal has replaced the Pacific Journalism Review, which was founded by Professor David Robie at the University of Papua New Guinea and published for…

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett, University of Technology Sydney
Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25.

As…

Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists in the Gaza Strip as…

NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists

Asia Pacific Report
About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet ministers in an open letter