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Month: August 2025

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Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?

August 24, 2025

COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant ever could: it has become the most dangerous country on earth — for its own people. Not because of rockets or boycotts, but because its government has decided that the ... <a title="Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/is-israel-becoming-the-nightmare-prophecy-it-was-meant-to-escape/" aria-label="Read more about Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?">Read more</a>

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Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla

August 24, 2025

Two New Zealand Palestinians, Rana Hamida and Youssef Sammour, left Auckland today to join the massive new Global Sumud Flotilla determined to break Israel’s starvation blockade of the besieged enclave. Here, two journalists report on the Asia-Pacific stake in the initiative. Ellie Aben in Manila and Sheany Yasuko Lai in Jakarta Asia-Pacific activists are preparing ... <a title="Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/asia-pacific-activists-ready-to-set-sail-with-largest-ever-gaza-aid-flotilla/" aria-label="Read more about Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla">Read more</a>

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FLNKS snubs Nouméa constitutional reform talks for New Caledonia

August 24, 2025

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A newly established “drafting committee” held its inaugural meeting in Nouméa this week, aiming to translate the Bougival agreement — signed by New Caledonian political parties in Paris last month — into a legal and constitutional form. However, the first sitting of the committee on Thursday ... <a title="FLNKS snubs Nouméa constitutional reform talks for New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/flnks-snubs-noumea-constitutional-reform-talks-for-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about FLNKS snubs Nouméa constitutional reform talks for New Caledonia">Read more</a>

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Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media

August 24, 2025

Pacific Media Watch Three media spokespeople addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality of news reporting about the world’s biggest genocide crisis this century. Speakers at other locations around the country also condemned what they said was biased media coverage. The critics said ... <a title="Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/rallies-across-nz-honour-gaza-strip-journalists-condemn-own-news-media/" aria-label="Read more about Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media">Read more</a>

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Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and West Bank

August 23, 2025

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Protesters in their thousands have been taking to the streets in Aotearoa New Zealand demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine and against genocide for the past 97 weeks. Yet rarely have the protests across the motu made headlines — or even the news for that matter — unlike the larger demonstrations ... <a title="Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and West Bank" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/23/facing-up-to-genocide-a-new-zealand-journalist-bears-witness-with-gaza-and-west-bank/" aria-label="Read more about Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and West Bank">Read more</a>

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When it comes to wellbeing, what are the pros and cons of working in an office vs from home?

August 22, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby (Elizabeth) Sander, MBA Director & Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University So your boss wants you in the office more? If this makes you anxious, you’re not alone. Return-to-work tensions aren’t simply resistance to change. They reflect deeper questions about how different ... <a title="When it comes to wellbeing, what are the pros and cons of working in an office vs from home?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/when-it-comes-to-wellbeing-what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-working-in-an-office-vs-from-home-263540/" aria-label="Read more about When it comes to wellbeing, what are the pros and cons of working in an office vs from home?">Read more</a>

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Australia will get a register to track educators and CCTV trial in centres – we still need more to keep kids safe

August 22, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Q. Jenkins, Lecturer, School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University This year Australia has seen a horrific string of reports and allegations about abuse and neglect in childcare centres. Families are desperate to ensure their kids are safe and political leaders have been rushing ... <a title="Australia will get a register to track educators and CCTV trial in centres – we still need more to keep kids safe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/australia-will-get-a-register-to-track-educators-and-cctv-trial-in-centres-we-still-need-more-to-keep-kids-safe-263641/" aria-label="Read more about Australia will get a register to track educators and CCTV trial in centres – we still need more to keep kids safe">Read more</a>

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The ancient Greeks invented democracy – and warned us how it could go horribly wrong

August 22, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia Athenians voted for Socrates to be put to death. Jacques Louis David, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931 The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said ... <a title="The ancient Greeks invented democracy – and warned us how it could go horribly wrong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/the-ancient-greeks-invented-democracy-and-warned-us-how-it-could-go-horribly-wrong-250058/" aria-label="Read more about The ancient Greeks invented democracy – and warned us how it could go horribly wrong">Read more</a>

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West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout

August 22, 2025

By Andrew Mathieson Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji — in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity — to hold the greater Pacific region to account and stand against Indonesia’s ongoing media blackout in addition to its human rights abuses. The leaders in their field which include two Papuans from Indonesia’s occupied provinces have ... <a title="West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/west-papuan-media-plea-for-melanesian-support-against-indonesian-media-blackout/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout">Read more</a>

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Ancient shells and pottery reveal the vast 3,200-years-old trade routes of Oceania’s Indigenous peoples

August 22, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bryce Barker, Professor in Archaeology, University of Southern Queensland Shutterstock New research conducted at Walufeni Cave, an important archaeological site in Papua New Guinea, reveals new evidence of long-distance interactions between Oceania’s Indigenous societies, as far back as 3,200 years ago. Our new study, published in the ... <a title="Ancient shells and pottery reveal the vast 3,200-years-old trade routes of Oceania’s Indigenous peoples" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/ancient-shells-and-pottery-reveal-the-vast-3-200-years-old-trade-routes-of-oceanias-indigenous-peoples-261950/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient shells and pottery reveal the vast 3,200-years-old trade routes of Oceania’s Indigenous peoples">Read more</a>