For the final instalment of Southern Cross this year, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Michael Andrew talks to the Wire team about the Australian 60 Minutes crew detained in Kiribati, the Melanesian Media Freedom Forum and the New Zealand media crisis.
This week on the Southern Cross, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Michael Andrew talks to the Wire team about Papua New Guinea police issuing a warrant for their former Prime Minister's arrest, the University of the South Pacific investigation, Professor David Robie's research in Iran, and a film about a great waka builder and sailor.
This week on the Southern Cross, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Michael Andrew talks to the Wire team about the United Nations reactions to West Papuan conflict, a human rights lawyer helping the West Papuan issue and the Australian Attorney General granting limited protection to embattled journalists in Australia.
This week on the Southern Cross, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Michael Andrew talks to the Wire team about further fatal protests and clamp downs on journalists in West Papua. They also discuss the need for ethics to be incorporated into the teaching of computer science.
This week on the Southern Cross, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Michael Andrew talks to the Wire team about the death of the Tongan Pime Minister, fake media accounts spreading misinfomation to undermine West papua, and a report on allegations made against the University of the South Pacific.
The Souther Cross is back, this week discussing the ongoing situation in West Papua, new human rights mesasures in the Pacific, and an investigation into the University of the South Pacific.
Andrew from the Pacific Media Centre joins us this week to discuss the ongoing protests and internet blackout in Papua New Guinea, the 20th Anniversary of Timor-Leste's independence and a possible assault by the Fijian Prime Minister.
Southern Cross is back and Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Michael Andrew speaks to the Wire team about the latest in Pacific news. They talk West Papuan demonstrations spreading across Indonesia and a leading broadcaster in Papua New Guinea being sacked and reinstated under contentious circumstances.