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February 22, 2023
REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls Peacemonger is a collection of essays about the much travelled Aotearoa peace activist and researcher Owen Wilkes, who died in May 2005. Wilkes was an extraordinary peace campaigner who discovered a foreign spy base at Tangimoana and was once charged with espionage in Norway and again while on a cycling holiday ... <a title="Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/22/tribute-to-a-human-comet-who-lit-everything-he-touched/" aria-label="Read more about Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2023
BOOK CHAPTER: By Nicky Hager Whistleblower Owen Wilkes was a tireless and formidable researcher for the Pacific, peace and disarmament. Before the internet, he combed publicly available sources on weapons systems and defence strategy. In 1968, he revealed the secretive military function of a proposed satellite tracking station in the South Island, and while working ... <a title="‘Lots of information isn’t secret, it’s just hard to find’ – Nicky Hager on one of NZ’s most famous whistleblowers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/01/lots-of-information-isnt-secret-its-just-hard-to-find-nicky-hager-on-one-of-nzs-most-famous-whistleblowers/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Lots of information isn’t secret, it’s just hard to find’ – Nicky Hager on one of NZ’s most famous whistleblowers">Read more</a>
