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June 7, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The community is up in arms over another local post office in Aotearoa New Zealand about to be closed down, this time in the iconic and historic Auckland inner city suburb of Ponsonby. A local author and founder of Greenstone Pictures, John Harris, has led a pushback against plans to close the ... <a title="Ponsonby community up in arms over impending post office closure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/07/ponsonby-community-up-in-arms-over-impending-post-office-closure/" aria-label="Read more about Ponsonby community up in arms over impending post office closure">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Mandy Henk When the US Embassy knocked on my door in late 2024, I was both pleased and more than a little suspicious. I’d worked with them before, but the organisation where I did that work, Tohatoha, had closed its doors. My new project, Dark Times Academy, was specifically an attempt to pull ... <a title="How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/27/how-to-fight-trumps-cyber-dystopia-with-community-self-determination-care-and-truth/" aria-label="Read more about How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and truth">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist Fa’anānā Efeso Collins is being remembered as a pillar of the Pacific community with a “big heart of service”, who loved being a husband and father. The 49-year-old Samoan-Tokelauan leader and Greens MP has been described as someone who embodied the Samoan proverb: “o le ala i le pule ... <a title="Pasifika leaders remember ‘stand-out community leader’ Fa’anānā Efeso Collins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/pasifika-leaders-remember-stand-out-community-leader-faanana-efeso-collins/" aria-label="Read more about Pasifika leaders remember ‘stand-out community leader’ Fa’anānā Efeso Collins">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
By Jonty Dine, RNZ News reporter The race for the Auckland mayoralty ends this weekend in the Aotearoa New Zealand local elections and polls indicate that either Pacific contender Fa’anānā Efeso Collins or Wayne Brown will claim the chains. RNZ News spoke to some prominent Aucklanders about who they believe should get the city’s top ... <a title="NZ local elections: A Pacific mayor possible for biggest city Auckland?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/nz-local-elections-a-pacific-mayor-possible-for-biggest-city-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about NZ local elections: A Pacific mayor possible for biggest city Auckland?">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2022
By Sri Krishnamurthi Rachael Mario isn’t just any woman, she is special in that she hails from the idyllic South Pacific island of Rotuma. And it is her love for social work which she hopes will propel her and her Roskill Community Voice and City Vision team onto the Mt Roskill board. It is also ... <a title="Love of social work propels Rotuma’s Rachael Mario into local elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/16/love-of-social-work-propels-rotumas-rachael-mario-into-local-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Love of social work propels Rotuma’s Rachael Mario into local elections">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Justice and peace advocates in New Zealand have strongly criticised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “horrific crackdown” on community leaders, activists, and educators. They have condemned in a statement published in Manila yesterday the arrest last September of Filipina educator and poet Lorena Sigua on a “trumped-up murder charge”. The advocates of ... <a title="NZ protesters slam arrest of Lumad cultural speaker and other Filipino political prisoners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/nz-protesters-slam-arrest-of-lumad-cultural-speaker-and-other-filipino-political-prisoners/" aria-label="Read more about NZ protesters slam arrest of Lumad cultural speaker and other Filipino political prisoners">Read more</a>
