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July 21, 2023
RNZ News A scene examination is continuing at a construction site in central Auckland after a fatal shooting there shocked the city yesterday morning. The gunman, 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, was on home detention but allowed to work at the construction site. He died at the scene in a shoot-out with police after killing ... <a title="Auckland shooting: City security beefed up as probe continues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/21/auckland-shooting-city-security-beefed-up-as-probe-continues/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland shooting: City security beefed up as probe continues">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2023
By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog My daughter came into the kitchen early today to tell me her friends were downtown in Auckland at Britomart, the transit hub of New Zealand’s biggest city, and that a construction worker had just run past them saying a man with a gun was shooting people. I ... <a title="Martyn Bradbury: A sorrowful day for my beautiful city – Matu Tangi Matua Reid’s unspeakable violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/21/martyn-bradbury-a-sorrowful-day-for-my-beautiful-city-matu-tangi-matua-reids-unspeakable-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Martyn Bradbury: A sorrowful day for my beautiful city – Matu Tangi Matua Reid’s unspeakable violence">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Peter C. Pugsley, University of Adelaide While Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer is opening in much of the world this week, a Japanese release date has not yet been announced. A delay in naming a release date is nothing new for Japan, where Hollywood releases often take place weeks or months later than ... <a title="Yes, Oppenheimer isn’t opening in Japan this week – but the country has a long history of cinema about the war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/20/yes-oppenheimer-isnt-opening-in-japan-this-week-but-the-country-has-a-long-history-of-cinema-about-the-war/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, Oppenheimer isn’t opening in Japan this week – but the country has a long history of cinema about the war">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2023
RNZ News Two people have been killed in a shooting in Auckland central business district today. At least six people are also wounded, including police officers. Police say the situation is now contained and the shooter is dead. They were alerted to the incident when someone discharged a firearm inside a construction site at about ... <a title="Two people killed in Auckland CBD shooting, gunman dead, NZ police confirm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/20/two-people-killed-in-auckland-cbd-shooting-gunman-dead-nz-police-confirm/" aria-label="Read more about Two people killed in Auckland CBD shooting, gunman dead, NZ police confirm">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2023
Jubi News Jayapura will once again host the sixth edition of the Papua Film Festival (FFP VI), scheduled to take place next month from August 7-9, 2023. The festival’s central theme, “Dari Kampung Kitong Cerita” (From Our Village, We Tell Our Stories), was determined by the Papuan Voices committee. During a press conference at the ... <a title="Papua Film Festival back to Jayapura – focus on cultural stories, engagement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/19/papua-film-festival-back-to-jayapura-focus-on-cultural-stories-engagement/" aria-label="Read more about Papua Film Festival back to Jayapura – focus on cultural stories, engagement">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2023
The LIVE Recording of A View from Afar podcast will begin at midday Thurs July 20, 2023 (NZST) and Wednesday July 19, 8pm (USEDST). In this the seventh episode of A View from Afar podcast for 2023 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will examine the strengths and weaknesses of democracy around the ... <a title="LIVE PODCAST@MIDDAY: How and Why Democracy is Backsliding Around the World – Buchanan and Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/19/live-podcastmidday-how-and-why-democracy-is-backsliding-around-the-world-buchanan-and-manning/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE PODCAST@MIDDAY: How and Why Democracy is Backsliding Around the World – Buchanan and Manning">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2023
RNZ News From today readers of rnz.co.nz will see a change to the home page, and a new initiative to tell the stories of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Asian community. RNZ.co.nz has added a lineup of four sections which focus on the growing communities of Aotearoa and are placed right at the top of the home ... <a title="RNZ launches new initiative to tell stories of Asian communities in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/19/rnz-launches-new-initiative-to-tell-stories-of-asian-communities-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ launches new initiative to tell stories of Asian communities in NZ">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2023
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders Summit proposed to be held from yesterday until July 21 has been postponed to another date, which is yet to be confirmed. This was confirmed by Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Jotham Napat. He said the MSG Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting ... <a title="Melanesian Spearhead Group summit postponed – West Papua uncertain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/19/melanesian-spearhead-group-summit-postponed-west-papua-uncertain/" aria-label="Read more about Melanesian Spearhead Group summit postponed – West Papua uncertain">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2023
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya Suspended Papua Governor Lukas Enembe, who is detained in Indonesia on corruption charges, was supposed to go on trial yesterday but this did not go ahead as he is gravely ill and could not attend. Upon realising the governor’s health had deteriorated, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) tried to transport ... <a title="Papua Governor Lukas Enembe gravely ill – KPK trial delayed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/19/papua-governor-lukas-enembe-gravely-ill-kpk-trial-delayed/" aria-label="Read more about Papua Governor Lukas Enembe gravely ill – KPK trial delayed">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2023
By Dorothy Mark in Madang, PNG In the last 15 days of the month of July, 15 murders have occurred in the northern Papua New Guinean town of Madang — once described as “beautiful” — and the community now faces a law and order crisis. Madang Mayor Peter Masia said the Madang district authority could ... <a title="PNG killings on the rise as Madang police call for more resources" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/18/png-killings-on-the-rise-as-madang-police-call-for-more-resources/" aria-label="Read more about PNG killings on the rise as Madang police call for more resources">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2023
RNZ Pacific French President Emmanuel Macron will make a first official visit to Papua New Guinea next Friday as part of a short Pacific trip. AFP news agency reports that Macron’s trip will start in New Caledonia before he travels to Vanuatu and Port Moresby. A French official told the news agency the trip was ... <a title="French President Macron to make historic visit to PNG, Vanuatu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/18/french-president-macron-to-make-historic-visit-to-png-vanuatu/" aria-label="Read more about French President Macron to make historic visit to PNG, Vanuatu">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2023
By Leitu Fereti in Suva The Brown Girl Woke initiative hopes to continue empowering Samoan youth in fighting against the culture of silence over violence. Founder Maluseu Doris Tulifau says it is essential to support young people in finding their voice and speaking out on these issues. Tulifau, 29, launched the non-profit feminist organisation in ... <a title="Samoa’s Brown Girl Woke initiative fights culture of silence on violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/18/samoas-brown-girl-woke-initiative-fights-culture-of-silence-on-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s Brown Girl Woke initiative fights culture of silence on violence">Read more</a>
