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August 4, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Rarotonga The Cook Islands Secretary of Culture Emile Kairua says people in his country are getting complacent about the use of Māori. Cook Islands Māori Language Week started on Sunday in New Zealand and will run until Saturday. Kairua said the language is at risk at the source. ... <a title="‘People have stopped using it’: Culture secretary warns of complacency over Cook Islands Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/people-have-stopped-using-it-culture-secretary-warns-of-complacency-over-cook-islands-maori/" aria-label="Read more about ‘People have stopped using it’: Culture secretary warns of complacency over Cook Islands Māori">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says that as far as Fiji is concerned, Fijians of Indian descent are Fijian. While Fiji is part of the Pacific, Indo-Fijians are not classified as Pacific peoples in New Zealand; instead, they are listed under Indian and Asian on the Stats NZ ... <a title="Indo-Fijian ‘listen to us’ plea to NZ over Pacific ethnicity classification" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/01/indo-fijian-listen-to-us-plea-to-nz-over-pacific-ethnicity-classification/" aria-label="Read more about Indo-Fijian ‘listen to us’ plea to NZ over Pacific ethnicity classification">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist National politicians and pastors are fuelling the tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea by supplying guns and ammunition, says Enga’s Provincial Administrator Sandis Tsaka. Tsaka’s brother was killed a fortnight ago when a tribe on a war raid passed through his clan. “[My brother] was at home with his ... <a title="PNG ‘politicians, pastors’ supply weapons to fuel deadly tribal fights, says Engan leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/25/png-politicians-pastors-supply-weapons-to-fuel-deadly-tribal-fights-says-engan-leader/" aria-label="Read more about PNG ‘politicians, pastors’ supply weapons to fuel deadly tribal fights, says Engan leader">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist National politicians and pastors are fuelling the tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea by supplying guns and ammunition, says Enga’s Provincial Administrator Sandis Tsaka. Tsaka’s brother was killed a fortnight ago when a tribe on a war raid passed through his clan. “[My brother] was at home with his ... <a title="PNG ‘politicians, pastors’ supply weapons to fuel deadly tribal fights, says Enga leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/png-politicians-pastors-supply-weapons-to-fuel-deadly-tribal-fights-says-enga-leader/" aria-label="Read more about PNG ‘politicians, pastors’ supply weapons to fuel deadly tribal fights, says Enga leader">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2023
TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau Last year Joelle Holland invested all of the money she had saved for a home deposit and put it into a baby product business called Hawaiiki Pēpi. The sole focus of Hawaiiki Pēpi is to teach Māori children to be proud of their culture and language. ... <a title="Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/15/baby-product-business-to-teach-maori-children-pride-in-culture/" aria-label="Read more about Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2023
By Alualumoana Luaitalo, Te Rito journalism cadet A new business initiative in Aotearoa New Zealand aims to open up conversations about the benefits of kava on mental health. Tongan entrepreneur ‘Anau Mesui-Henry and her photographer husband Todd Henry own Four Shells Kava Lounge in Auckland, creating a space for the community to use the Pacific ... <a title="Pasifika people using kava and talanoa to boost mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/19/pasifika-people-using-kava-and-talanoa-to-boost-mental-health/" aria-label="Read more about Pasifika people using kava and talanoa to boost mental health">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Sex Whoever would have predicted that the definition of ‘male’ and ‘female’ could ever become a matter of contention? My professional life has been in political economy, which includes social science and humanities: philosophy, economics, history, statistics, demography, and geography. Demography in particular, requires a biological definition. The objective science of ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Sex, Gender, Demography and Culture Wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/30/keith-rankin-analysis-sex-gender-demography-and-culture-wars/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Sex, Gender, Demography and Culture Wars">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2022
In this, the 21st episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning analyse the notion, and perhaps the reality, of Trumpism beyond Trump. And they do so through framing the results of Brazil's election; the approaching US midterm elections, and the coalition shifts toward the far right in the wake of Israel's elections.
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November 24, 2021
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will deep-dive into how Aotearoa New Zealand is in the cross-hairs of two distinct political powers – one has been around for awhile and applies influence operations aimed at elites; and the other uses cultural and ideological diffusion that is ... <a title="LIVE@MIDDAY: Why Bannonism-Trumpism Has Set Its Sights on Aotearoa New Zealand – Buchanan and Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/24/livemidday-why-bannonism-trumpism-has-set-its-sights-on-aotearoa-new-zealand-buchanan-and-manning/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE@MIDDAY: Why Bannonism-Trumpism Has Set Its Sights on Aotearoa New Zealand – Buchanan and Manning">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2021
By Yance Wenda in Jayapura A Papuan woman politician has warned Indonesian security forces against restricting women from selling noken — traditional string bags — and other accessories displaying the banned Morning Star flag design at the Papuan National Games (PON XX) venue in Jayapura. Orpa Nari, a Papuan People’s Assembly (MRP) member of the ... <a title="‘It’s our identity’, declare Papua’s defiant mamas over Morning Star" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/12/its-our-identity-declare-papuas-defiant-mamas-over-morning-star/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It’s our identity’, declare Papua’s defiant mamas over Morning Star">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Artist Dinar Candy has held a protest action over the extension of Indonesia’s Enforcement of Restrictions on Public Activities (PPKM) by wearing a bikini on the side of a road in Jakarta, reports CNN Indonesia. During the action, Candy also brought a banner with the message, “I’m stressed out because the ... <a title="Indonesian artist charged under ‘pornography’ law for bikini protest faces 10 years jail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/07/indonesian-artist-charged-under-pornography-law-for-bikini-protest-faces-10-years-jail/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian artist charged under ‘pornography’ law for bikini protest faces 10 years jail">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. We have this pretty fiction that the world is made up of approximately 200 politically autonomous nation-states. This in the entrenched ‘Wilsonian’ view of the political world that, in particular, was sort-of realised after World War One; a view that rendered the national empires (such as the British Empire) of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Fundamentalism in our Post-Globalisation Era" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/03/keith-rankin-essay-territorial-fundamentalism-in-our-post-globalisation-era/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Fundamentalism in our Post-Globalisation Era">Read more</a>
