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March 23, 2026
COMMENTARY: By David Robie, author of Eyes of Fire Climate crisis concerns shouldn’t overshadow the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, where there are lingering health and sociopolitical insecurities. For example, there are concerns in French Polynesia about the mysterious fate of a former anti-nuclear investigative journalist and editor of the now closed Les ... <a title="From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/23/from-nuclear-to-climate-crisis-survivors-unfinished-business-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG), has produced fresh insights into the legacy of Pacific nuclear-free and anti-colonialism activism. The community storytelling group Talanoa TV, an affiliate of the Whānau Community Centre and ... <a title="Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/former-fang-president-vijay-naidu-talks-pacific-anti-nuclear-activism/" aria-label="Read more about Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Journalist, author and media academic David Robie has launched an independent news and current affairs website to complement his long-established Asia Pacific Report. While Asia Pacific Report will continue to cover regional affairs, the new website — dubbed Café Pacific, the same name as his blog which is being absorbed into the ... <a title="Journalist David Robie launches new open access Café Pacific website" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/journalist-david-robie-launches-new-open-access-cafe-pacific-website/" aria-label="Read more about Journalist David Robie launches new open access Café Pacific website">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior happened 35 years ago this year. The event had ramifications across the Pacific, and politicised a generation of New Zealanders. But in this age of climate change and global pandemic, have Kiwis held onto the lessons they learnt on that winter’s night in 1985? Matthew Scott investigates. Article by ... <a title="Echoes of the Rainbow Warrior – have the lessons been learned?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/echoes-of-the-rainbow-warrior-have-the-lessons-been-learned/" aria-label="Read more about Echoes of the Rainbow Warrior – have the lessons been learned?">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
COMMENT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala in AucklandTomorrow – November 25 – is D-Day for Tahitian pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru’s trial in New Caledonia and advocates and activists across the Pacific are rallying in his support against the “colonial actions” taken by the French administration. Temaru requested this postponed date to enable him to ... <a title="Solidarity groups rally in support of Mā’ohi independence leader Temaru" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/solidarity-groups-rally-in-support-of-maohi-independence-leader-temaru/" aria-label="Read more about Solidarity groups rally in support of Mā’ohi independence leader Temaru">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva The unfolding in French Polynesia of the latest judiciary entanglements of pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru versus the French administration is being closely followed by members of the Tahitian community in Tahiti and in Aotearoa New Zealand. There are undeniable similarities between Temaru’s upcoming trial on November 4 in Nouméa after many ... <a title="The judgment of Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru – a neocolonial sense of déjà-vu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/02/the-judgment-of-tahitis-oscar-temaru-a-neocolonial-sense-of-deja-vu/" aria-label="Read more about The judgment of Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru – a neocolonial sense of déjà-vu">Read more</a>