Phil Vine

Phil Vine has been a journo for more years than he cares to say. His top drawer is littered with used business cards from most of the current affairs shows in New Zealand, Sunday, Sixty Minutes, Fair Go and 3D investigates, among a bunch of awards certificates. He’s scribbled for the Guardian, NZ Herald and Listener. Held a microphone for ITV, BBC and CBC, reporting out of Pakistan, Iraq and Nicaragua, El Salvador to East Timor and the Solomons. He’s done time with the Red Cross in Indonesia and Geneva. Phil reviews books for Radio New Zealand. He’s presently working for Greenpeace. He is married to Sonja deFriez. Phil has three children Tash, Ruben and Sebastien.

When my friend held a handwritten sign at the cricket in Christchurch

13 March 202012 March 2020 by Phil Vine

She had a modest message about peace and solidarity to share, and then it was confiscated from her. Something perturbing happened to my friend at the cricket. It was, on the face of it, a minor act of censorship that went unnoticed by most. It might have been something and it might have been nothing. … Read more