Radio Australia Pacific Beat
- Stainless steel pool a tech leap for Pacific Games 2011 September 7, 2010
- Location of NZ quakes on previously unknown fault September 7, 2010
- Peace monitoring teams find success in PNG highlands September 7, 2010
ABC News
- Iranian woman's stoning sentence suspended September 8, 2010
- Police officer shot during raid September 8, 2010
- Damaged Wangaratta levee poses flood risk September 8, 2010
BBC News
- Cuts 'must be resisted' says SF September 8, 2010
- Google unveils 'instant' searches September 8, 2010
- Vitamin B 'puts off Alzheimer's' September 8, 2010
Pacific Journalism
Elections! Solomon Islands vs Australia
Australians might think they are sophisticated when it comes to politics. But in recent weeks the small Pacific Island Nation of Solomon Islands has been showing their big brother how it is done. »
Fiji Times pulls out of Pacific Islands News Association
This story has just come out of Fiji. Major blow to media in the Pacific region The Fiji Times newspaper has withdrawn its membership of the Pacific Islands News Association, saying it is no longer appropriate to continue as member. In a letter to the PINA President Moses Stevens, Fiji Times editor Netani Rika says they... »
Fiji in coup season, and how I’m not related to Sir Elton
I recently did this for Correspondent’s Notebook on Radio Australia. “Excuse me sir, can I ask you a question?’ “Sure” I said. “What would like to know?” “Are you” she asked “By chance related to Sir Elton John?” It was not a question I was expecting, and the person asking, the cleaner at my hotel... »
The view from Fiji about censorship
With Fiji’s media still censored, and that censorship to continue under a restrictive new decree, Sophie Foster from the Fiji Times told World Press Freedom Day in Brisbane about the results of a survey of practioners there. Very interesting stuff. If you did not think censorship has an affect. Check this out. »
Tonga Updates
These links from Radio Australia’s “Pacific Beat”. If you want to hear the latest, and the best, about what is happening in the Pacific Island Kingdom, check out these sites. Bruce Hill’s interview with former Tongan AG John Cauchi The response from Tonga’s Government What Tonga’s opposition leader said. The legal opinion on Tonga’s Government’s machinations!!! »
What’s happening in Tonga?
Here are the links to the latest stories on Tonga and the resignation of the Attorney General. Here is where you find the latest Radio Australia stories Go to the Pacific Beat website for all the news »
Some sites worth checking out
If you like food and are close to Queensland in Australia, have a look at Sugar Snapped A good story by Bruce Hill on the resignation of Tonga’s Attorney. Keep watching here. More will come. »
Pacific perceptions in Australia
This opinion piece was written by my, and aired on Radio Australia’s Correspondent’s Notebook program Since the end of 2006 my job has been to report on issues and events > in the nations and territories spread across the Pacific. I’ve put a lot of effort into reporting headline events and issues. The coups, tsunamis.... »
Tonga watches with interest as Royal Commission wraps up hearings
This is a piece I’ve done for Radio Australia’s “Correspondent’s Notebook” on the Royal Commission of Inquiry in Tonga into last year’s ferry disaster. If you want to go to the audio, click here. This week the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika, began taking testimony from its final... »
The view from Swanvale in Samoa, Part 2
Jiust before leaving Samoa I filed this piece for ABC’s “Correspondent’s Notebook” and “Correspondent’s Report” If you want to listen to it, click here. Just over two years ago I’d traveled to the Western Province of Solomon Islands when it had been hit by an earthquake and tsunami. I felt, given that experience, I had a... »
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