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

Today's Auckland protesters caught the ferry to Devonport and broadcast the majority New Zealand civil society's opinion against NZ becoming a proxy for Netanyahu's "Greater Israel" wars on Iran, Syria and Lebanon. https://asiapacificreport.nz/
Protesters staged a "die-in" on the street in front of the consulate to mark the cruel and targeted slaughter of 168 children at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in the southeastern Iranian city of Minab by US bombs. This tragedy took place on February 28, the opening day of the illegal and unprovoked US-Israel war on the Islamic Republic. Images: Asia Pacific Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s press conference on the first day of the Iran ceasefire on 8 April 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Image: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty/Common Dreams
Little Island Press: https://littleisland.nz/books/eyes-fire
Iranian women hold photos of children who were killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people, during a demonstration in Tehran last week. Image: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/CommonDreams
Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff in Mondoweiss in 2019 - what has changed. @LatuffCartoons
New Zealand Herald 8 January 2026
Congratulations to the University of the South Pacific, Shailendra Singh, Amit Sarwal, Del Abcede and all those who contributed to this first edition. APMN members' copies will be in the mail soon and also more news coming up about edition 2 of Pacific Media with editor Khairiah A Rahman. Images: Asia Pacific Report
Picket for Palestine (The Warehouse AGM) Friday, 28 November 2025.