24 Jul 2023
Opportunity lost with the Commonwealth Games
With alternative cities jumping at the chance to host the orphaned Games, has Victoria scored an own goal?
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21 Dec 2022
Seeking independence: three books to read this summer
From Timorese history and Bougainville’s dreams to Australia’s regional stories, catch up on essential background. -
3 Aug 2021
Keeping PNG connected by investing in radio
Australia could quickly make a critical – and relatively cheap – neighbourly investment in democracy. -
10 Dec 2019
Favourites of 2019: ABC primetime returns to the Pacific
Friction between the panel and audience and Australia’s climate change policies was on display – and plenty more, too. -
20 Nov 2019
China, media freedom in the Pacific, and the great Australian silence
Media freedom issues bedevil the region, but it’s the dwindling number of Pacific-based journalists that carries a cost. -
24 Oct 2019
ABC: Australia’s waning soft-power star
The public broadcaster alone cannot be responsible for Australia’s international voice, so more need to be heard. -
18 Oct 2019
Papua New Guinea’s untold media freedom challenge
Cuts by foreign news agencies, poor resourcing and cultural hurdles for local journalists are obstacles to overcome. -
23 Apr 2019
Simplistic and wrong to say the ABC is missing from Pacific coverage
So often the ABC asks questions to provide answers other media outlets run with. -
10 Jan 2019
International broadcasting: the ABC vs the wisdom of the crowd
An incoming Australian government should review and rethink the purpose of state-funded international broadcasting. -
23 Nov 2018
Time we heard the Pacific’s take on the Pacific
Should we really lament the passing of the old-fashioned foreign correspondent, or take a chance for something new? -
23 Nov 2018
Morrison and the Pacific: the good, the gaffe, and the omission
The rediscovery of the Pacific covers important ground but raising Australia’s broadcast voice is a chance to do better. -
14 Nov 2018
International broadcasting: raising Australia’s Pacific voice
The solution isn’t to simply transmit, or worse, dump Australian content on unsuspecting regional audiences. -
12 Oct 2018
See the difference: CGTN’s Australian gambit
<p>China’s broadcasters are spruiking, but overseas propaganda is more to benefit bosses back in Beijing.</p> -
28 Sep 2018
Not just a pretty place: Australia’s soft power
<p>Australia's soft power review should focus on diaspora and international audiences, not indices.</p> -
14 Aug 2018
Diplomacy in the post-broadcasting era
Projecting Australia’s interests now demands a very different suite of approaches from those of days gone by. -
6 Aug 2018
International broadcasting: not so simple as ABC
Australia’s future international public broadcasting should be placed in the hands of a new independent body. -
1 Feb 2017
Radio Australia: The soft power tool eroded by neglect
Suggesting digital content can fully replace shortwave services points to a worrying ignorance by ABC management of PNG and Pacific audiences. -
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