David Robie

[2] In 1985, Robie sailed on board the Greenpeace eco-navy flagship Rainbow Warrior for 10 weeks until it was bombed by French secret agents in New Zealand’s Auckland harbour.

[6] In 1993-1997, Robie headed the University of Papua New Guinea journalism programme and in 1998-2002 became coordinator of the University of the South Pacific journalism school where his students covered the 2000 George Speight coup d'état in Fiji.

[7][8] According to the NZ Listener, an assistant minister in Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's government in 1998 threatened to close Robie's media and politics website - Café Pacific - and revoke his work permit as a media educator in "what was seen as the first test of the 1997 Constitution's freedom of expression clause".

[10] He is founding editor of Pacific Journalism Review, launched at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994.

[18] In the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours, Robie was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to journalism and Asia-Pacific media education.