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EDITORIAL: Media and free expression
When rumours abounded in December 1998 about the impending sale of Papua New Guinea's Post-Courier, arguably the best daily newspaper in the South Pacific, to a consortium headed by a crony Prime Minister Bill Skate the Port Moresby media world was in a
David Robie
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Non-governmental organizations and multi-sited marine conservation science: A case study [PDF]
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are now major players in the realm of environmental conservation. While many environmental NGOs started as national organizations focused around single-species protection, governmental advocacy, and preservation of
Hastings, Jesse
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Special report: Pacific media freedom 2011: A status report
Pacific media freedom has been under siege for more than a decade, particularly since an attempted coup in Fiji in May 2000, when a television station was attacked and ransacked, a foreign journalist was shot and wounded and a local journalist ended up ...
Alex Perrottet, David Robie
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Recently the Daily Post has been the favourite whipping boy of anyone who has anything to say about anything. We get blasted in Parliament, we get blasted by the Government, we get blasted by the Opposition, we get blasted in the newspaper, we get ...
Fiji Daily Post
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Pacific freedom of the press: Case studies in independent campus-based media models
South Pacific university-based journalism school publications were innovative newspaper publishers from 1975 onwards and among early pioneers of online publishing in the mid-1990s.
David Robie
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Private crime prevention expenditure in Fiji
Recently, the Prime Minister of Fiji and the Police Commissioner have made statements to the effect that criminal activity in Fiji has been declining and that the incidence of crime in Fiji is lower than in Australia and New Zealand.
Duncan, Ron, Sharma, Anupam
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Understanding Judicial Independence in Vanuatu [PDF]
This paper is intended to fill a gap in the literature concerning the Vanuatu judiciary, as this topic is rarely addressed other than in reports by international non-government organisations, such as Transparency International and its local chapter ...
Forsyth, Miranda
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‘Short views’ on Fiji coups fail to answer key media questions
The first premier of the People’s Republic of China, Zhou Enlai (1949-1976), when asked about the impact of the late eighteenth century French Revolution, supposedly responded that it was too early to tell. Apocryphal or not, his ‘long view’ always needs to be borne in mind when trying to evaluate recent events, including the 2006 coup in Fiji.
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Pacific media councils and cultural values: Safety valve or entrenched hegemony?
Two countries in the South Pacific, Fiji and Papua New Guinea, have adopted contrasting media council models to self-regulate the media amid growing political and cultural pressures on the news industry.
David Robie
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Marine Managed Areas: What, Why, and Where [PDF]
This paper, which focuses on ocean and coastal areas, explores the challenge of public participation by discussing the role of communities in IM. It draws on a decade of collaboration between academics and community partners to outline the community ...
Giselle Samonte-Tan +4 more
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