MIL-OSI Australia: Art + Film: We Don’t Need a Map
Source: City of Sydney What’s On Screening of a documentary, exploring the cultural roots of the most famous constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. Warwick Thornton’s 2017 documentary, We Don’t Need a Map considers the cultural roots of the most famous constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. He deconstructs both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian’s often contentious relationship […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Angore landowners set LNG machinery on fire in more PNG unrest
Charred machinery at the PD8 LPG development site in Hela province, PNG Highlands. Image: Michael Passingan/PNG News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk In a show of frustration over the nonpayment of a business development grant, Angore landowners in Hela province have set fire to the massive Hides development LNG machinery on PDL 8 site as unrest […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Mendi community leaders welcome emergency state in PNG ‘wake up call’
Southern Highlands community leaders talk about the post-election crisis in their province. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Community leaders from the troubled Southern Highlands province have welcomed the Papua New government’s decision to declare a State of Emergency and plans to suspend the provincial government. Speaking in Port Moresby, they urged political leaders […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: ‘We cannot footnote our way to freedom’
The Pacific Media Centre’s Dr Sylvia C. Frain talks to human rights lawyer Julian Aguon, who recently won a landmark case in the Guam Supreme Court upholding the separation of powers doctrine, on issues ranging from law school and social justice to indigenous peoples and the right of self-determination in Guam, West Papua and beyond. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI New Zealand: ‘We cannot footnote our way to freedom’
Source: Pacific Media Centre Analysis published with permission of PMC The Pacific Media Centre’s Dr Sylvia C. Frain talks to human rights lawyer Julian Aguon, who recently won a landmark case in the Guam Supreme Court upholding the separation of powers doctrine, on issues ranging from law school and social justice to indigenous peoples and […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Reportage: ‘We cannot footnote our way to freedom’
Source: Pacific Media Centre Analysis published with permission of PMC The Pacific Media Centre’s Dr Sylvia C. Frain talks to human rights lawyer Julian Aguon, who recently won a landmark case in the Guam Supreme Court upholding the separation of powers doctrine, on issues ranging from law school and social justice to indigenous peoples and […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Frustrated PNG tribesmen capture 2 policemen – seize vehicles, weapons
Southern Highlands tribesmen show off seized police vehicle and assault rifles. Image: EMTV News Facebook Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Two Papua New Guinean police vehicles travelling from Hagen to Hela in the Highlands after servicing were fired on today in a Highlands attack, with one vehicle being seized and two policemen taken captive, report local […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: Three Brothers exhibition
Source: City of Sydney What’s On Members of the last lost tribe Warlimpirrnga, Walala and Thomas Tjapaltjarri and their family led a completely nomadic life until they emerged from the desert in Kiwirrkurra in 1984.Members of the lost tribe, the 3 brothers have continued to stun the world when walking out of the desert those […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: New military counter-terrorism unit arrests 5 West Papuans, says Jubi
The Joint Special Operations Command (Koopssusgab), a joint military counter-terrorism unit, was reportedly involved n the arrests. Graphic: Tabloid Jubi By Victor Mambor in Jayapura Five civilians in Timika have reportedly been arrested by the newly reactivated military counter-terrorism unit for “aspiring” to West Papuan independence. “At 10pm on Saturday June 9, Orpa Wanjomal (40) […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Activists fear Indian proposal for coal reserves in Indonesian-ruled Papua
By Febriana Firdaus in Jakarta As it seeks to diversify its sources of fuel, India is looking to get in on the ground floor of coal mining in previously unexploited deposits in Indonesian-ruled Papua. In exchange for technical support and financing for geological surveys, officials say India is pushing for special privileges, including no-bid contracts […]
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