Pacific Media Centre's Kendall Hutt speaks with host of The Wire Amanda Jane Robinson about West Papua, media freedom, and climate change in the Pacific.
This week on the Southern Cross, bFM reporter Amanda Jane Robinson spoke to AUT Pacific Media Centre Director David Robie about the Centre's new Asia Pacific report and some of the news stories the PMC has been covering this week.
Southern Cross is continuing this week, and Sherry talks to Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi. They will be talking about the latest happenings in the Asia Pacific region, particularly with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. They discuss questions around ‘essential workers’ in the media, levels of anxiety, stress and panic buying, an update on COVID-19 in the pacific and levels of support, and the flow of information around the virus in Papua New Guinea. We also spoke briefly about domestic violence today - the are you ok help line is 0800 456 450, and ring 111 if in an emergency.