Erin Harris: Nauru appeal court move denies justice for refugees
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Erin Harris: Nauru appeal court move denies justice for refugees The Australian High Court building in Canberra. Image: Bentley Smith/Flickr/The Interpreter BRIEFING: By Erin Harris The decision to terminate a long-standing arrangement that saw the Australian High Court act as a partial appellate court for […]
Read More →OP-ED: The Meaning of Operation Olive Branch – Turkey Minister of Foreign Affairs
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: OP-ED: The Meaning of Operation Olive Branch – Turkey Minister of Foreign Affairs EDITOR’S NOTE: This opinion article is written by Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, by H.E. Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. It was first published in Foreign Policy on April 5 2018 Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkey’s […]
Read More →Tributes flow for NZ’s Arab Spring journalist Yasmine Ryan
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Tributes flow for NZ’s Arab Spring journalist Yasmine Ryan Yasmine Ryan … a “global” freelance journalist who died tragically in Turkey last month. Image: PMW Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk New Zealand journalist Yasmine Ryan, credited with being the first reporter writing in English about the […]
Read More →NZ urgently needs to take more Rohingya refugees
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: NZ urgently needs to take more Rohingya refugees Protests against the Rohingya “genocide” have spread globally. With more than 1 million Ronhinga refugees in Bangladash, the authors argue that New Zealand needs to act now and take in more. Image: Clickittefaq OPINION: By Sharon Harvey […]
Read More →Chris Trotter: Catastrophic loss of trust over Canberra’s Manus provocation
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Chris Trotter: Catastrophic loss of trust over Canberra’s Manus provocation OPINION: By Chris Trotter You have to go a long way to find anything remotely resembling Australia’s current treatment of New Zealand. For a supposedly friendly government to deliberately inject inflammatory disinformation into the political […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Time to act on refugee crisis
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Time to act on refugee crisis Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Time to act on refugee crisis Dr Bryce Edwards. The Prime Minister’s current strategy over the Manus Island refugees is probably not sustainable. Jacinda Ardern’s preferred tactic is to continue with […]
Read More →Murray Horton: Root causes of ‘Pacific’ refugee crisis need to be sorted
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Murray Horton: Root causes of ‘Pacific’ refugee crisis need to be sorted Papua New Guinea immigration officials last week started dismantling parts of a prison camp housing hundreds of defiant refugees as an evacuation deadline loomed yesterday. Video: Al Jazeera OPINION: By Murray Horton of […]
Read More →NZ protesters lock gates of Australian High Commission in Manus protest
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: NZ protesters lock gates of Australian High Commission in Manus protest The squalor faced by Manus Island refugees in Papua New Guinea. TRT video Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand activists have chained themselves to the gates of the Australian High Commission in Wellington while […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Has Jacinda Ardern failed her first international test of leadership?
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Has Jacinda Ardern failed her first international test of leadership? Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Has Jacinda Ardern failed her first international test of leadership? Dr Bryce Edwards. Is our new government doing enough about the Manus refugee crisis? Well, it’s hardly […]
Read More →PNG immigration officials whisk Iranian refugee away from media
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: PNG immigration officials whisk Iranian refugee away from media Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby The deported Iranian refugee who arrived in Port Moresby today from Fiji, Loghman Sawari, was whisked away by heavy handed immigration officers in a getaway vehicle at […]
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