The Southern Cross

Today  Professor David Robie, director of the Pacific Media Centre, tells us about  the Timor-Leste elections on Saturday, the independence movement in Bougainville and the Pacific Media Summit in Tonga.

Postgraduate student journalist from the PMC’s Asia-Pacific Report, Rahul Bhattarai, tells us about the Israeli occupation protests in Auckland at Silo park yesterday.

Manager of the NZ Institute for Pacific Research, Dr. Evelyn Masters, Sri Krishnamurthi from the Pacific Media Centre and Professor David Robie, director of the PMC, join us in studio today.

Evelyn and Sri tell us about the The Pacific Research Institute at The University of Auckland.

David gives us the rundown on this weeks Pacific news. We learn about the annual RSD World Press Freedom Index and the accusations that Facebook have been censoring a photograph by a leading photojournalist.

We had Professor David Robie, director of the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology on the show today.

David speaks about various upheavals around the Pacific in the past week including the alleged Chinese military base plans for Vanuatu, Nauru abolishing its Appeal Court in Australia, and a huge diabetes health bill blowout in Fiji.

AUT Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie and Pacific Media Watch editor Jean Bell joins us in studio to discuss West Papua and the failure of visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo to front up to the media while in New Zealand.

We also chat about the wave of protests sweeping Indonesia due to a new law that criminalises criticism of lawmakers and the Tonga Minister of Education, Penisimani Fifita moving to ban girls from rugby or boxing.