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May 21, 2026
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French Senate has endorsed proposed changes to New Caledonia’s restricted electoral roll to allow “native” people to vote in next month’s local elections. The proposed changes relax current vote restrictions enforced under the Nouméa Accord, signed in 1998, a situation often referred to as the ... <a title="French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/21/french-senate-endorses-change-to-new-caledonias-frozen-electoral-roll/" aria-label="Read more about French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2026
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A new law in Papua New Guinea, requiring a political parties to meet a quota for fielding women candidates, is being described as a step in the right direction, but maybe not far enough. The new elections rule that women must make up 10 percent of parties’ endorsed ... <a title="New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women MPs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/20/new-bid-to-tackle-papua-new-guineas-chronic-lack-of-women-mps/" aria-label="Read more about New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women MPs">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2026
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A West Papuan church leader has warned that ongoing killings of young Papuans allegedly by Indonesian security forces have the hallmark of genocide. Since the start of the year there has been no stop to violent incidents in the Indonesian-ruled Papua region known internationally as West Papua. Indonesia’s ... <a title="‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West Papuans killed in escalating conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/theyre-wiping-us-out-church-leader-warns-about-young-west-papuans-killed-in-escalating-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West Papuans killed in escalating conflict">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran. The war in Iran is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has planned for four decades. He has always wanted Israel to extend from Egypt to the Euphrates and in the ... <a title="Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/16/media-miss-the-questions-never-asked-behind-the-us-israel-war-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on Iran">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As New Caledonia marks the second anniversary of a spate of unrest and riots that broke out on 13 May 2024, the situation on the ground remains tense, on the political, economic and security levels. Politically, over the past two years, there have been sequences ... <a title="Two years after New Caledonia’s violent uprising, tensions remain high" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/two-years-after-new-caledonias-violent-uprising-tensions-remain-high/" aria-label="Read more about Two years after New Caledonia’s violent uprising, tensions remain high">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this citizen; and the sovereign should avenge his wrongs, punish the aggressor, and, if possible, oblige him to make full reparation; since otherwise the citizen would not obtain the great end of the civil association, which is, ... <a title="Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/did-nzs-prime-minister-just-commit-treason-pm-ignores-terrorist-attack-on-his-own-citizens/" aria-label="Read more about Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2026
In a fawning softball 60 Minutes interview released on Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of winning “the propaganda war” on social media. This comes as Israel moves to quadruple its propaganda budget to $730 million a year. Major Garrett (which apparently is a real name belonging to a real guy who works for 60 ... <a title="Netanyahu stresses the need for more propaganda as Israel’s Hasbara budget soars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/12/netanyahu-stresses-the-need-for-more-propaganda-as-israels-hasbara-budget-soars/" aria-label="Read more about Netanyahu stresses the need for more propaganda as Israel’s Hasbara budget soars">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2026
Asia Pacific Report A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying to break the illegal Gaza siege and who was abducted by Israel returned home this week and gave a searing speech in Auckland today condemning the abuses he and others suffered. “They abducted us at gunpoint and threatened to kill us ... <a title="‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/11/they-threatened-to-kill-us-at-gunpoint-says-nz-gaza-flotilla-activist/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2026
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Indonesian authorities say investigations are underway into an incident in West Papua when a number of people were allegedly injured after police fired shots amid a student graduation event. Reports from West Papua say seven people suffered injuries when tensions flared at a parade by senior high school ... <a title="West Papuan graduation parade turns violent after police object to Morning Star flag" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/10/west-papuan-graduation-parade-turns-violent-after-police-object-to-morning-star-flag/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan graduation parade turns violent after police object to Morning Star flag">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s government says it has suspended all trade cooperation with Vanuatu after the Vanuatu government hosted the pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) in Port Vila. Vanuatu is hosting a series of talks under the theme “VOICE 2030” (Vanuatu Opportunities for Investment and ... <a title="New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS meeting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/new-caledonia-suspends-trade-cooperation-with-vanuatu-in-row-over-flnks-meeting/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS meeting">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges Nothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than the genocide in Gaza and the shipment of tens of billions of dollars of weapons to Israel by Western nations — especially the United States — to sustain it. Part of this inversion is the unrelenting persecution of those ... <a title="Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/06/israels-kidnapping-of-two-important-pro-palestine-global-activists-reaffirms-persecution/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution">Read more</a>
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Asia Pacific Report - John Minto
Forough Amin in her opinion piece “The consequences of selective morality” (The Press, 28 April 2026) argues that the Palestine solidarity movement’s call for sanctions against Israel is “selective morality”. She says we should be calling out all human rights abuses everywhere — which in her case means Iran.
