Writer with a passion for PNG and polo
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By Tom Breen
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CHRISTOPHER ASHTON: 1941 – 2021
Christopher Philip Mackenzie (Chris) Ashton (1941 – 2021) was an acclaimed Australian journalist, foreign correspondent, and travel writer. His death on Wednesday May 5 in Buenos Aires, aged 79, marked the end of more than five decades of thoughtful and adventuresome journalism. His foreign postings included Port Moresby (PNG) for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, when Chris reported on the lead up to and the proclamation of PNG independence in 1975, and later as a correspondent from Salisbury, Rhodesia through its tortuous road to independence.
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SOLOMONS AUTHORITIES UNDER FIRE OVER MEDIA GAG Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/09/1999 - 00:00
( See PMW items 2203, 2201, 2195, 2194. PIM website is at http://www.pim.com.fj)
SUVA, Fiji Islands (August 4, 1999 Â Pacific Media Watch/Pacific Islands Monthly/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire) -An international news agency reporter covering the recent Solomon Islands ethnic clashes has criticized the media gag and a severe personality clash among authorities as problems for journalists.
Writing in the August edition of the Suva-based Pacific Islands Monthly newsmagazine, Michael Field cited a gagging writ against the weekly Solomon Voice newspaper by police commissioner Frank Short over a critical letter.
The letter reportedly targeted the Englishman who has a background in South Africa s apartheid era police force.