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EDITORIAL: Millennium mayhem
Get PDFThe Pacific has entered the third millennium after a tempestuous time in the final year of the 20th Century. All the recent events have had an impact on the region's media.The fragile peace in Bougainville has continued to experience hiccups; the state of emergency in the Solomon Islands over ethnic unrest and even the historic change of government in the Fiji Islands with the country's first Indo-Fijian prime minister. have unleashed tensions. But the major upheaval, of course, has been East Timor's devastating transition to independence from Indonesia and in the resurgence of West Papua ( recently "renamed" Papua from Irian Jaya by Jakarta's colonial authorities) as a news story
Fairness, balance and the Pacific media: Oceania Press Councils 1
No full textSeveral Pacific papers were presented at the inaugural World Association of Press Council's Oceania regional conference in Brisbane in June. The first was an overview of the region
'Not in a pakeha court': Kastom and Pacific media
Get PDFLaws which most concern journalists, such as libel, have been framed entirely within a western context. This hinders and often disbars orindary people from seeking redress against the media in western-style courts. A personal look at ways orindary citizens might gain satisfaction. 
Public broadcasting and the intelligent butterfly
Get PDFIn reality the public broadcster has much in common with the butterfly motif used for the title of this article, by settling on the map of community happenings to interview and broadcast what "appears" to be news. But freedom from economic and political pressures and freedm to select what news will be the events of the day are prime elements. 
REVIEW: Unique flavour of Pacific public radio: Review by Patrick Craddock
No full textReview of Radio Happy Isles: Media and Politics at Play in the Pacific, by Robert Seward. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
It was a pleasure to open Robert Seward's Radio Happy Isles to find an excellent summation of some of the intricacies of radio media at work in the small island countries, both below and above the Equator. It also contains references to Australia and New Zealand, as both run a regular short-wave service with programmes aimed at audiences at the Pacific region. 
Blood on the cross: East Timor and West Papua 1
No full textAn ABC Four Corners team investigates allegations about the role of the International Red Cross and the British military in a massacre in the Southern Highlands of Irian Jaya during May 1996. The story of what happened has never been told before.
Caption: Australian journalist Mark Davis and Kelly Kwalik in West Papua (Irian Jaya). Image: ABC Four Corners
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Transparency and the Fiji news media: Chaudhry and the Fiji Media 4
No full text'Why was there no full text of the Prime Minister's speech published prior to the media starting to defend itself, in the name of media freedom? Why was the public left in the dark, with only snippets to guide it?
REVIEW: Sandline crisis thriller that fails to deliver: Review by Murray Horton
No full textReview of Enemies Within: Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Sandline crisis: The Inside Story, by Mary-Louise O'Callaghan. Sydney: Doubleday.
This book gives an extremely detailed account of those unprecedented events. According to this book, the worst thing about the detention of the Sandline commander, Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer, by the PNG military, was that he missed the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens. Bad Show! This book reads like a thriller
Gagging the Samoa Observer: Oceania Press Councils 5
No full text'But with a strong electronic media at its disposal, you wonder why the Government wants the private media under its control, as well. The reason is clear enough. The government does not want the private media to expose acts of corruption.' 
A genuinely free press?
Get PDFJournalists need look again at the conventions and practices which conceal their reliance on information subsides from their audiences. A genuinely free and open press can only exist where readers can recognise where the hand of the government has helped in writing the news they read and watch.