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David Robie
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Aotearoa New Zealand author, journalist, media academic, media freedom defender, stirrer, and publisher of Asia Pacific Report and Café Pacific. https://muckrack.com/david-robie-4/portfolio
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Evening star rising: Girlhood in the Aeta heartlands of the Philippines #asiapacificreport #keearaofren #Philippines #Indigenous #Aeta #HumanRights
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January 16, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Eugene Doyle: Iran in the vortex – what’s really going on and the ‘invisible hand’ of Israel? #asiapacificreport #EugeneDoyle #commentary @solidaritynetwork.bsky.social #IranRevoIution2026 #IranProtests #USregimechange #Israel #Mossad
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Eugene Doyle: Iran in the vortex – what’s really going on and the ‘invisible hand’ of Israel? | Asia Pacific Report
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January 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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FLNKS sends in late request to join Paris talks on New Caledonia remotely #asiapacificreport #rnzpacific #kanaky #newcaledonia #FranceinPacific #decolonisation @kanakyxxxxiv.bsky.social @kanaky.bsky.social @westpapuamedia.bsky.social
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FLNKS sends in late request to join Paris talks on New Caledonia remotely | Asia Pacific Report
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January 15, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Benny Wenda #BennyWenda @westpapuamedia.bsky.social
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#Indonesia is currently overseeing the world’s biggest ever deforestation project in #WestPapua, while new research shows the extent of the UK’s involvement in an occupation that has been described as a ‘slow #genocide’.
Who's profiting from plunder in West Papua?
Indonesia is currently overseeing the world’s biggest ever deforestation project in West Papua, while new research shows the extent of the UK’s involvement in an occupation that has been described as ...
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January 15, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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Ian Powell: Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective #asiapacificreport @otaihanga.bsky.social #bondiattack #GazaGenocide‌ #HumanRightsViolations
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Ian Powell: Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective | Asia Pacific Report
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January 15, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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"...If the officer acted lawfully, an investigation would prove it. If policy was followed, evidence would confirm it. Investigations don’t presume guilt; they protect legitimacy. Only those afraid of the truth try to prevent anyone from looking..."
#DOJCorruption
When Justice Walks Away
When career prosecutors resign in protest, ICE acts without oversight, and Trump preempts the facts, the country sees justice abandoned, accountability erased, and power protected above all else.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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GOP congress is entirely responsible for EVERYTHING awful that happens. THey could stop this madness in a day. Yet, they chose not to. How is this not treason??
January 14, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Mixed reactions to shock axing of All Blacks coach Scott Robertson #asiapacificreport #rnznews #sport #Rugby #coaches #AllBlacks #RugbyWorldCup
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Mixed reactions to shock axing of All Blacks coach Scott Robertson | Asia Pacific Report
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January 15, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent playbook #asiapacificreport #mondoweiss #GazaGenocide‌ #Minneapolisprotests #HumanRightsViolations
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From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent playbook | Asia Pacific Report
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January 15, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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#CaitlinJohnstone: "No other power ... has spent the 21st century slaughtering people by the millions in wars of aggression around the world, attacking civilian populations with deadly #starvation sanctions, staging #coups, instigating proxy conflicts ..."
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Caitlin Johnstone: On 'leftists' and 'anarchists' who cheer for regime change in Iran - Café Pacific | David Robie
By Caitlin Johnstone: Is there anything more undignified than “leftists” and “anarchists” who cheer on the fall of empire-targeted governments even as the empire moves war machinery into place?
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January 15, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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China matches US contribution to Pacific environmental body a week after Trump pulls out #asiapacificreport #rnzpacific #USAID #DonaldTrump #SPREP #Chinarescue #climate #environment
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China matches US contribution to Pacific environmental body a week after Trump pulls out | Asia Pacific Report
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January 15, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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Iran protests – why this upheaval is fundamentally different from 1979 #asiapacificreport #IranMassacre #IranProtests #IranianRevolution #analysis
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Iran protests – why this upheaval is fundamentally different from 1979 | Asia Pacific Report
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January 14, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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FLNKS boycotts Macron-convened Paris talks over future this week #asiapacificreport #rnzpacific #Kanaky #NewCaledonia #Macrontalks #FLNKSboycott @kanakyxxxxiv.bsky.social @kanaky.bsky.social @westpapuamedia.bsky.social #FLNKS
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FLNKS boycotts Macron-convened Paris talks over future this week | Asia Pacific Report
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January 14, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Indonesia accused of being ‘unfit’ for UN rights council presidency #asiapacificreport #UnitedNations #UNHumanRights #indonesia #WestPapua #BennyWenda @westpapuamedia.bsky.social #KanakyTribe #westpapuanews #kanakynews
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Indonesia accused of being ‘unfit’ for UN rights council presidency | Asia Pacific Report
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January 13, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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Adelaide Writers' Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum #asiapacificreport #michaelwestmedia @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social #freedomofspeech #culture #writers #AdelaideWritersWeek
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Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum | Asia Pacific Report
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January 13, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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Trump's ICE as seen by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff. @carloslatuff.bsky.social @mintpressnews.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror #asiapacificreport #thechrishedgesreport #democracy #stateterrorism #HumanRightsViolations #GazaGenocide #venezuelacrisis #MaduroKidnap #globalterror #dictatorship
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Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror | Asia Pacific Report
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January 13, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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MEAA support for Australian journalist and former SBS news anchor Mary Kostakidis - she was the "face of SBS" for two decades - in her battle to defend free speech."
petercronau.bsky.social Peter Cronau @petercronau.bsky.social · Sep 24
The MEAA has released a strong statement of support for Mary Kostakidis in her battle to defend free speech.

Well done to the union for making such an unequivocal stand against attempts to censor media reporting & commentary on the acknowledged Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Statement from the National Media Section of MEAA
The Media Entertainment Arts Alliance has long fought for media freedoms, rebuking censorship and calling for access to information. Since October 7, MEAA has seen a rise in threats, harassment, and i...
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January 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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"Selling out Australia's sovereignty."
petercronau.bsky.social Peter Cronau @petercronau.bsky.social · Dec 2
New from DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA

Australia’s F-35 fighter jet ‘parts’ may be whisked off the shelves at RAAF Williamtown Air Base in NSW — on the whim of a foreign state, to be exported to a foreign country, in a distant war zone.

‘SELLING OUT OUR SOVEREIGNTY’

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SELLING OUT OUR SOVEREIGNTY - Declassified Australia
Revelations of secret F-35 fighter jet parts shipments to Israel have exposed a yawning hole in Australia’s sovereign national defence.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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No one has the balls to tell Shitler that his ideas stink as much as he does... They aren't financially viable and makes no good common sense. I guess that's why he's been through bankruptcy so many times.
January 12, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Looks like the regime has put JD in charge of bullshit.
January 11, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the Republic, writes Laurens Ikinia. #cafepacific #westpapua @westpapuamedia.bsky.social
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Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation - Café Pacific | David Robie
By Laurens Ikinia: Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the Republic.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Adelaide Writers’ Week has been decimated by a mass boycott in support of disinvited Palestinian academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. Here’s the list of boycotting participants.
Jacinda Ardern quits Adelaide Festival's Writers Week in wake of growing boycott
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January 12, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Looks like Trump is doing a little resume-building.

Submitted without a comment to his Truth Social a little after 8 PM ET on Sunday night, the president posted a screen grab of what looks like his Wikipedia page, but directly under his official photo is the title, “Acting President of Venezuela.”
January 12, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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This should be more obvious to everyone, but we cannot let the people comfortable with the mass slaughter of children further shape our culture, our democracies, our future as a species. It's the path to a depraved fascistic hellhole.
January 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM