Stefan Armbruster

Number #1. A new place to get your "best of the" Torres News from Zenadth Kes, as a quarterly insert in the @koorimailnews. Congrats Diat Alferink. Snap on frontpage pics with you (and thanks) Christine Howes. Awesome. Available here: pocketmags.com/au/koori-mail-…

Barring Pacific journalists from Australian PM Albanese's press conference at #PIFLM54 in Honiara has left quite an impression.

BBC, Reuters, AFP and AP launch film calling for Gaza access

The BBC, in association with Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, and Reuters, has launched a short film calling on the Israeli authorities to allow international journalists access to Gaza. Read more: bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

"It is clear that much of the [Pacific Islands Forum] leaders’ time & energy was taken up with discussions on the Review of Regional Architecture, in particular the approach to current and prospective dialogue partners," say @TCNPacific & @StefArmbruster. devpolicy.org/piflm54-slow-b…

Tensions after Pacific journalists were excluded from the PM’s presser. #MediaWatch

So why wasn’t the regions’ media, bar a single Aussie who writes for a Pacific masthead, allowed into the room? #MediaWatch

As the UN General Assembly votes 142 - 10 to adopt a resolution on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, six of the ten No votes are Pacific island states ( and Fiji and Samoa abstain).

Like all Forum leaders Albo is pressed for time and prioritises contact with Aussie journalists to sell his message to voters. But if Australia is serious about the rhetoric (vuvale, family, partner of choice), how about a 2026 press conference for Pacific journalists as well?

Wow, Pacific island journalists barred from attending Australian PM's presser. Can't say it's the first time this kind of treatment has happened, sadly. facebook.com/1390343767/pos…

A security pact was signed in the Pacific today, just not the one the “overseas” media were so focussed on. Great visuals in Honiara at this PIF side event. Thanks Fiji and Solomons journalists for the inside running. #PIFLM54 #Vanuatu #auspol

I contacted a colleague in Paris for information about the collapse of the French government, after French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou lost the confidence of the National Assembly in a 364-194 vote. I asked what's next, and here's his reply...

Thanks to @PACNEWS2 for republishing this story from the Torres News on the Torres Strait's message to the Australian government Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Honiara next week. Eso. pina.com.fj/2025/09/05/sta… @ForumSEC #PIFLM54 #PIF54 #auspol

Thanks to Pacnews Pina for republishing this story from the Torres News on the Torres Strait's message to the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Honiara next week. Eso. pina.com.fj/2025/09/05/sta… @ForumSEC #PIFLM54 #PIF54 #auspol pic.twitter.com/oyxMz80tgN

MEDIA STATEMENT: High Court decision is a vindication of the award winning journalism of MEAA members Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters and their colleagues at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. #MEAAmedia

Latest from me ahead of #PIF54 in Solomon Island with at Torres Strait perspective for the Torres News. "Stand with us": Torres Strait to Pacific Island leaders

First full magazine cover and with the legendary Pacific current affairs publication @IBIupdate for the August issue. Photo from recent APIBC Pacific Infrastructure conference in Brisbane. Thanks @NetaniRika for making me a contributor 📷 LINK: facebook.com/share/p/19dPY2… #Pacific

“We’re for you” 😂 @CourierMail (aka Broncos Newsletter) motto and Brisbane’s March for Palestine on page 9. Which is the better photo? 🤔

@ahawatson @Starlink @anudpa @ANUasiapacific @ANUBellSchool @newsroom_the @broadcasing @ForumSEC Before or after the 50th 🤔

The court case about @Starlink's licence in #PapuaNewGuinea has been deferred to September. For its status in #Pacific nations, see this piece by me and a colleague: theconversation.com/starlink-is-tr… #tech #PNG @anudpa @ANUasiapacific @ANUBellSchool @newsroom_the @broadcasing @ForumSEC