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March 1, 2026
Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tamaki Makaurau today were highly critical of the erosion of New Zealand’s once proud nuclear-free and independent foreign policy. They also warned against being tied into a United States that is pivoting a hostile policy towards China, New Zealand’s major trading partner. Ironically, just ... <a title="NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/nz-rally-slams-five-eyes-intelligence-ties-hours-before-us-israel-attack-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mick Hall A leaked document has revealed secretive plans to revise terror laws in New Zealand so that people can be charged over statements deemed to constitute material support for a proscribed organisation. It shows the government also wants to widen the criteria for proscribing organisations to include groups that are judged ... <a title="Leaked document reveals proposed law revisions in NZ, as Western defence of Zionist genocide threatens Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/25/leaked-document-reveals-proposed-law-revisions-in-nz-as-western-defence-of-zionist-genocide-threatens-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Leaked document reveals proposed law revisions in NZ, as Western defence of Zionist genocide threatens Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Peter Cronau for Declassified Australia Australia is caught in a jam, between an assertive American ally and a bold Chinese trading partner. America is accelerating its pivot to the Indo-Pacific, building up its fighting forces and expanding its military bases. As Australia tries to navigate a pathway between America’s and Australia’s national ... <a title="Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/17/australias-defence-navigating-us-china-tensions-in-changing-world/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The Green Party has called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to rule out Aotearoa New Zealand joining the AUKUS military technical pact in any capacity following the row over Ukraine in the White House over the weekend. President Donald Trump’s “appalling treatment” of his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a “clear warning ... <a title="‘Back off AUKUS’, Greens MP Tuiono warns NZ in wake of Trump row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/05/back-off-aukus-greens-mp-tuiono-warns-nz-in-wake-of-trump-row/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Back off AUKUS’, Greens MP Tuiono warns NZ in wake of Trump row">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Maire Leadbeater Aotearoa New Zealand’s coalition government has introduced a bill to criminalise “improper conduct for or on behalf of a foreign power” or foreign interference that echoes earlier Cold War times, and could capture critics of New Zealand’s foreign and defence policy, especially if they liaise with a “foreign country”. It is ... <a title="Why the draft ‘foreign interference’ bill is so dangerous for Aotearoa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/15/why-the-draft-foreign-interference-bill-is-so-dangerous-for-aotearoa/" aria-label="Read more about Why the draft ‘foreign interference’ bill is so dangerous for Aotearoa">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2025
REVIEW: By David Robie Four months ago, a group of lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand called for a little reported inquiry into New Zealand spy agencies over whether there has been possible assistance for Israel’s war in Gaza. In a letter to the chief of intelligence and security (IGIS) on 12 September 2024, three lawyers ... <a title="An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia over political critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/08/an-indictment-of-nzs-settler-colonial-and-five-eyes-spy-paranoia-over-political-critics/" aria-label="Read more about An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia over political critics">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reid The Enemy Within, by Maire Leadbeater is many things. It is: • A family history• A social history• A history of the left-wing in Aotearoa• A chilling reminder of the origin and continuation of the surveillance state in New Zealand, and• A damn good read. The book is a great example ... <a title="Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/09/behind-settler-colonial-nzs-paranoia-about-dissident-persons-of-interest/" aria-label="Read more about Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Of the international intelligence information that comes to Australian agencies from the Five Eyes, 90 percent comes from the CIA and related US intelligence agencies. So in effect we have the colonisation of our intelligence agencies These agencies dominate the advice to ministers, writes John Menadue. ... <a title="John Menadue: America is the most violent, aggressive country in the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/john-menadue-america-is-the-most-violent-aggressive-country-in-the-world/" aria-label="Read more about John Menadue: America is the most violent, aggressive country in the world">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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March 28, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand investigative journalist and author says the US spy system hosted by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) appears to be a controversial intelligence system used in global capture-kill operations. Writing a commentary for RNZ News today, Nicky Hager, author of Secret Power, a 1996 book on New Zealand’s role ... <a title="Investigative author says GCSB-hosted spy system likely to be one used in capture-kill ops" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/investigative-author-says-gcsb-hosted-spy-system-likely-to-be-one-used-in-capture-kill-ops/" aria-label="Read more about Investigative author says GCSB-hosted spy system likely to be one used in capture-kill ops">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Te Kuaka, an independent foreign policy advocacy group with a strong focus on the Pacific, has called for urgent changes to the law governing New Zealand’s security agency. “Pacific countries will be asking legitimate questions about whether . . . spying in the Pacific was happening out of NZ,” it said today. ... <a title="Te Kuaka calls for urgent law change on spy agency, warns over Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/22/te-kuaka-calls-for-urgent-law-change-on-spy-agency-warns-over-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Te Kuaka calls for urgent law change on spy agency, warns over Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse how New Zealand and other nations are providing intelligence expertise in the defence of Ukraine. But are the SIGINT and TECHINT operations a part of the NATO partnership, or, a part of the Five Eyes intelligence network’s operations – ... <a title="LIVE Thurs@Midday Buchanan + Manning: Signals+Tech Intel Ops and the Defence of Ukraine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/30/live-thursmidday-buchanan-manning-signalstech-intel-ops-and-the-defence-of-ukraine/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE Thurs@Midday Buchanan + Manning: Signals+Tech Intel Ops and the Defence of Ukraine">Read more</a>
