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April 27, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla is ready to sail to Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. All the required paperwork has been submitted to the port authority, and the cargo has been loaded and prepared for the humanitarian trip to the besieged enclave. However, organisers received word of an “administrative roadblock” initiated by Israel in ... <a title="Israel delays Gaza Freedom Flotilla departure with bureaucratic ‘block’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/27/israel-delays-gaza-freedom-flotilla-departure-with-bureaucratic-block/" aria-label="Read more about Israel delays Gaza Freedom Flotilla departure with bureaucratic ‘block’">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda” backing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. About 50 protesters targeted the main entrance to the TVNZ building near Sky Tower and also picketed a side gate entrance for media workers ... <a title="Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/26/palestine-protesters-challenge-tvnz-over-israeli-ambassadors-propaganda/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2024
PNG Post-Courier In the early hours of ANZAC Day, aerial photographs captured an impressive gathering of Australians and Papua New Guineans at Isurava in the Northern (Oro) Province. The solemn dawn service yesterday was held at a site steeped in history, where some of the fiercest battles of World War II unfolded along the Kokoda ... <a title="Solemn ANZAC dawn service at PNG’s Isurava battle memorial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/26/solemn-anzac-dawn-service-at-pngs-isurava-battle-memorial/" aria-label="Read more about Solemn ANZAC dawn service at PNG’s Isurava battle memorial">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Chief Mandla Mandela, a member of the National Assembly of South Africa and Nelson Mandela’s grandson, has joined the Freedom Flotilla in istanbul as the ships prepare to sail for Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. Mandela is also the ambassador for the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine. When he met with ... <a title="Nelson Mandela’s grandson joins Gaza flotilla, slams ‘genocide complicit’ leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/nelson-mandelas-grandson-joins-gaza-flotilla-slams-genocide-complicit-leaders/" aria-label="Read more about Nelson Mandela’s grandson joins Gaza flotilla, slams ‘genocide complicit’ leaders">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the tally kept by RSF, 200 journalists have been subjected to threats and physical violence, including murder, in the past 10 years because they were working on stories linked to ... <a title="200 journalists ‘targeted’ over their environment reporting, warns RSF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/200-journalists-targeted-over-their-environment-reporting-warns-rsf/" aria-label="Read more about 200 journalists ‘targeted’ over their environment reporting, warns RSF">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and similar student-led protests in the United States. The camp was pitched as mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and the near-total destruction of infrastructure haunted Gaza with Israel’s ... <a title="Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks 200 days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/sydney-university-students-set-up-gaza-solidarity-camp-as-war-marks-200-days/" aria-label="Read more about Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks 200 days">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
RNZ News Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand’s coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability Issues portfolio in a reshuffle. Climate Change and Revenue Minister Simon Watts will take Lee’s spot in cabinet. Simmonds was a minister outside of cabinet. The changes came today five ... <a title="NZ’s Media Minister Melissa Lee demoted after Newshub crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/nzs-media-minister-melissa-lee-demoted-after-newshub-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Media Minister Melissa Lee demoted after Newshub crisis">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day 2024. Praising the courage and ... <a title="OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/opm-leaders-open-letter-condemns-australias-treachery-over-papua/" aria-label="Read more about OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he should be removed from his post. The tribunal’s report has just been tabled in the Kiribati Parliament and is due to be debated by MPs this week — the last ... <a title="Australia-born judge facing potential deportation from Kiribati" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/australia-born-judge-facing-potential-deportation-from-kiribati/" aria-label="Read more about Australia-born judge facing potential deportation from Kiribati">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Murray Horton New Zealand needs to get tough with Israel. It’s not as if we haven’t done so before. When NZ authorities busted a Mossad operation in Auckland 20 years ago, the government didn’t say: “Oh well, Israel has the right to defend itself.” No, it arrested, prosecuted, convicted, imprisoned and deported the ... <a title="Murray Horton: Get tough on Israel – we’ve done it before over spies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/murray-horton-get-tough-on-israel-weve-done-it-before-over-spies/" aria-label="Read more about Murray Horton: Get tough on Israel – we’ve done it before over spies">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
NEWSMAKERS: By Vijay Narayan, news director of FijiVillage Blessed to be part of the University of Fiji (UniFiji) faculty to continue to teach and mentor those who want to join our noble profession, and to stand for truth and justice for the people of the country. I was privileged to lecture a few units a ... <a title="Fiji journalism – starting with the people and ending with the people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/fiji-journalism-starting-with-the-people-and-ending-with-the-people/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji journalism – starting with the people and ending with the people">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived at Kokoda Station, Northern province, at the start of his state visit to Papua New Guinea. Both Albanese and Prime Minister James Marape will meet with the locals and the Northern Provincial government before they begin their walk along the historic 96km ... <a title="PNG’s PM Marape to ‘give hand to his bro’ Albanese on Kokoda Trail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/pngs-pm-marape-to-give-hand-to-his-bro-albanese-on-kokoda-trail/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s PM Marape to ‘give hand to his bro’ Albanese on Kokoda Trail">Read more</a>
