Freelancer. Fmr Head of News (Pacific) @RadioFreeAsia/@BenarNews. Industry fellow Griffith Uni. Fed delegate @withMEAA. Journalist trainer. RTs ≠ 👍🏼 or 👎🏼.
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Number #1. A new place to get your "best of the" Torres News from Zenadth Kes, as a quarterly insert in the @koorimailnews. Congrats Diat Alferink. Snap on frontpage pics with you (and thanks) Christine Howes. Awesome.
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Barring Pacific journalists from Australian PM Albanese's press conference at #PIFLM54 in Honiara has left quite an impression.
The Australian Government says Australia is part of the Pacific 'family.'
But at the recent Pacific Islands Forum, local journalists were shut out of the Australian PM's press conference.
You don't treat family like that.
#auspol
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The BBC, in association with Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, and Reuters, has launched a short film calling on the Israeli authorities to allow international journalists access to Gaza.
Read more: bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/s…
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"It is clear that much of the [Pacific Islands Forum] leaders’ time & energy was taken up with discussions on the Review of Regional Architecture, in particular the approach to current and prospective dialogue partners," say @TCNPacific & @StefArmbruster.
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Tensions after Pacific journalists were excluded from the PM’s presser.
#MediaWatch
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So why wasn’t the regions’ media, bar a single Aussie who writes for a Pacific masthead, allowed into the room?
#MediaWatch
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As the UN General Assembly votes 142 - 10 to adopt a resolution on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, six of the ten No votes are Pacific island states ( and Fiji and Samoa abstain).
#BREAKING
UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution endorsing the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution
Voting result
In favor: 142
Against: 10
Abstain: 12
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Like all Forum leaders Albo is pressed for time and prioritises contact with Aussie journalists to sell his message to voters. But if Australia is serious about the rhetoric (vuvale, family, partner of choice), how about a 2026 press conference for Pacific journalists as well?
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Wow, Pacific island journalists barred from attending Australian PM's presser. Can't say it's the first time this kind of treatment has happened, sadly.
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I contacted a colleague in Paris for information about the collapse of the French government, after French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou lost the confidence of the National Assembly in a 364-194 vote. I asked what's next, and here's his reply...
Thanks to Pacnews Pina for republishing this story from the Torres News on the Torres Strait's message to the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Honiara next week. Eso.
pina.com.fj/2025/09/05/stand…
@ForumSEC #PIFLM54 #PIF54 #auspol xitter.cf/StefArmbruster/status/…
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MEDIA STATEMENT: High Court decision is a vindication of the award winning journalism of MEAA members Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters and their colleagues at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
#MEAAmedia
Latest from me ahead of #PIF54 in Solomon Island with at Torres Strait perspective for the Torres News.
"Stand with us": Torres Strait to Pacific Island leaders
First full magazine cover and with the legendary Pacific current affairs publication @IBIupdate for the August issue.
Photo from recent APIBC Pacific Infrastructure conference in Brisbane. Thanks @NetaniRika for making me a contributor 📷
LINK: facebook.com/share/p/19dPY2g…
#Pacific
“We’re for you” 😂 @CourierMail (aka Broncos Newsletter) motto and Brisbane’s March for Palestine on page 9. Which is the better photo? 🤔
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#Australia🇦🇺: Journalists and @withmeaa members pay tribute to Palestinian journalists killed in #Gaza and demand Israel to stop killing media workers. The journalistic community stands up against attacks on journalism ✊🏿 Israel must stop this massacre! youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8OUw9…
