What Outsiders Can Usefully Say

https://asiapacificreport.nz/2018/11/24/mary-louise-ocallaghan-time-we-heard-the-pacifics-take-on-the-pacific/

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Comments from  long-time Australian journalist Mary-Louise O'Callaghan on the passing of foreign journalists who lived and worked in the Pacific and the opportunity now to  hear from Pacific journalists with analyses from their perspective came as a little surprise.

Where has she been for the last few decades? Or by "Pacific" is she  thinking only of  PNG and perhaps Western Melanesia?   In  the wider Pacific local journalists have long been presenting news that reflects their perspectives and their agendas, though they do tend to be swamped in our media by our journalists who see the Pacific from New Zealand perspectives.  It's a rare Kiwi voice such as Prof David Robie who identifies with and usually reflects Pacific news priorities.

But it was her next statement when she wrote of  an "insight only an indigenous member of an indigenous society can have" that caused me to pause and reflect a little longer,