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March 22, 2023
A Pacific elder and former secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum says Pacific leaders need to sit up and pay closer attention to AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific strategy and China’s response to them. Speaking from Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, Dame Meg Taylor said Pacific leaders were being sidelined in major geopolitical decisions affecting ... <a title="Pacific needs to sit up and pay close attention to AUKUS, says Dame Meg Taylor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/pacific-needs-to-sit-up-and-pay-close-attention-to-aukus-says-dame-meg-taylor/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific needs to sit up and pay close attention to AUKUS, says Dame Meg Taylor">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2021
Asia Pacific Report The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) has called on the Australian government to stop trying to keep Papua off the agenda at the Pacific Islands Forum and “strenuously support” Pacific leaders in urging Jakarta to allow a PIF fact-finding mission to the territory. Congratulating the PIF Secretary-General Meg Taylor on her statement ... <a title="Papua support group praises Meg Taylor for UN rights statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/06/papua-support-group-praises-meg-taylor-for-un-rights-statement/" aria-label="Read more about Papua support group praises Meg Taylor for UN rights statement">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
By RNZ Pacific The Speaker of Fiji’s Parliament has rejected calls from the opposition to debate the controversial deportation of the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Ratu Epeli Nailatikau ruled that an oral question from National Federation Party (NFP) leader Professor Biman Prasad, a former USP economics academic, and an adjournment ... <a title="Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/fiji-speaker-disallows-debate-on-usps-ahluwalia-deportation/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2020
I write this as a Papua New Guinean and a daughter of this nation. I believe in the rights of women. I believe that the Constitution of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, the Mama Lo, safeguards the place of women in our nation. I understand the strengths and limitations of our cultures and ... <a title="Dame Meg Taylor: We must act now over gender-based violence in PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/02/dame-meg-taylor-we-must-act-now-over-gender-based-violence-in-png/" aria-label="Read more about Dame Meg Taylor: We must act now over gender-based violence in PNG">Read more</a>
