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Post-Courier: 27 November 1997 *Graphic By Oseah Philemon Prime Minister Bill Skate is alleged to have authorised K27,000 in bribes to be paid to four of his ministers and 12 backbenchers, according to videotapes broadcast on ABC Television. |
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Asia-Pacific Network: 11 September 1997 *Graphic By David Robie Greenpeace has gained publicity over a rural solar-powered telephone system among anti-logging communities and calls for a new commission of inquiry into the timber industry. But a former PNG campaigner has condemned it over its alternative energy policies |
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Asia-Pacific Network: 22 July 1997 *Graphic By David Robie Bill Skate is the first ethic Papuan to be elected Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. But although he has promised to reopen the inquiry into the Sandline mercenary affair, the composition of his coalition government is already under fire. |
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Asia-Pacific Network: 12 July 1997 By David Robie Just four days before the declaration of official results of the Papua New Guinea's 1997 general election, former military commander Jerry Singirok has been quietly dumped from the armed forces. And new military chief Brigadier-General Leo Nuia is again under fire. |
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Uni Tavur: 18 April 1997 *Graphic Report by Amnesty International While the Papua New Guinean and international news media have focused on the mercenary affair and Sandline inquiry, the catalyst - Bougainville's tragedy - has been sidelined. Here is an extract from an Amnesty International report on human rights which received little publicity in PNG. |
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Asia-Pacific Network: 22 March 1997 *Graphic By David Robie Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan has bowed to pressure and "stood down". The Sandline contract has been suspended and the mercenaries - except for their leader - have left Papua New Guinea. But sacked Brigadier-General Jerry Singirok has opened the pandora's box of national corruption. |
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Asia-Pacific Network: 17 March 1997 *Graphic By David Robie Papua New Guinea's military commander, Brigadier-General Jerry Singirok, rebels against his government over the controversial mercenary force and gives Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan an ultimatum on talkback radio to resign within 48 hours.
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Asia-Pacific Network: 28 January 1997 *Photograph By David Robie Regulation moves by Papua New Guinea's Constitutional Review Committee and in Fiji have put the region's news media under siege as never before. An analysis of the state of play presented to the Commonwealth Journalists' Association in Hongkong in January 1997 as draft laws are about to go before Parliament. |
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Sunday Observer: 14 December 1969 Photographs by Ronald Haeberle The Melbourne Sunday Observer.-- the original paper of that name which campaigned against Australian involvement as a US surrogate in the Vietnam War -- published photographs of the My Lai massacre. It was prosecuted for "obscenity" but the charge was dropped before reaching court. |
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Asia-Pacific Network: 7 October 1996 By David Robie Media commentators see the jailings of two journalists and an MP whistleblower in Tonga as the most serious threat to media freedom in the South Pacific since the Fiji coups in 1987. But coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka, now Fiji's elected prime minister, sees the harsh move as a lesson for journalists. |
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*Photo & graphics Asia-Pacific Network: 28 October 1996 By Michael Kessler Reflecting the diversity of Pacific Islands community, Pacific Wave festival will splash its way all over Sydney for two weeks in November, hosting a variety of both traditional and contemporary events at a range of venues such as the Performance Space, The Casula Powerhouse and Bondi Pavilion. |
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Pacific Journalism Review: Vol 3 No 2 November 1996 By Eyal Press West Papuan tribesmen take on the operations of Freeport McMoran, the company that runs the world's largest goldmine and third-largest copper mine. The lessons for Papua New Guinea's resource developers are sobering. |
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Asia-Pacific Network and Pacific Journalism Review: 13 November 1996 By Ian Stuart Aotearoa/New Zealand is divided between the mainstream news media and the fast-gowing Maori media with contrasting perspectives. New Zealand journalism graduates need to be taught different media systems and news values. |
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Pacific Journalism Review: Vol 2 No 1 November 1995 By David Robie President Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. A journalist on board the original environmental campaign ship Rainbow Warrior -- bombed by French secret agents a decade ago -- recalls the events. He was later arrested by the French military. |
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Sunday Observer: 14 December 1969 Photographs by Ronald Haeberle The Melbourne Sunday Observer.-- the original paper of that name which campaigned against Australian involvement as a US surrogate in the Vietnam War -- published photographs of the My Lai massacre. It was prosecuted for "obscenity" but the charge was dropped before reaching court. |
Asia-Pacific Network provides independent journalism on social, political, environmental and development issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The following is a selection of some of the articles. Seek permission from the editor before republication. 
9 August 1998.