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May 21, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia and French Polynesia have sent strong delegations this week to the United Nations Pacific regional seminar on the implementation of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism in Timor-Leste. The seminar opened in Dili today and ends on Friday. As French Pacific ... <a title="New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/new-caledonia-french-polynesia-at-un-decolonisation-seminar-in-dili/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
When Melbourne-born Helen Hill, an outstanding social activist, scholar and academic, died on 7 May 2024 at the age of 79, the Timorese government sent its Education Minister, Dulce de Jesus Soares, to deliver a moving eulogy at the funeral service at Church of All Nations in Carlton. Helen will be remembered for many things, ... <a title="Helen Hill: for social justice and Timor-Leste’s independence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/helen-hill-for-social-justice-and-timor-lestes-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Helen Hill: for social justice and Timor-Leste’s independence">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2024
OBITUARY: By Philip Cass of Kaniva Tonga A New Zealand politician and human rights activist with a strong connection to Tonga’s Democracy movement and other Pacific activism has been farewelled after dying last week aged 80. Keith Locke served as a former Green MP from 1999 to 2011. While in Parliament, he was a notable ... <a title="How former Greens MP Keith Locke often became a voice for the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/27/how-former-greens-mp-keith-locke-often-became-a-voice-for-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about How former Greens MP Keith Locke often became a voice for the Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
ABC Pacific Beat Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the parliamentary election, but the country’s first president may contest the count after his party fell short of an outright majority. The result of Sunday’s election paves the way for a return to power for the 76-year-old, Timor-Leste’s first president, if he can form a ... <a title="Timor-Leste’s opposition party wins election ‘punishing’ ruling Fretilin coalition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/timor-lestes-opposition-party-wins-election-punishing-ruling-fretilin-coalition/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste’s opposition party wins election ‘punishing’ ruling Fretilin coalition">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Melissa Conley Tyler, The University of Melbourne and Andrea Fahey, Australian National University Today is election day in Timor-Leste, when voters are deciding on 65 members of Parliament to represent them. Each election is a reminder of the successful regional and international cooperation that led to Timor-Leste’s independence. It is also a reminder ... <a title="Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/22/timor-leste-is-at-the-polls-heres-how-australia-can-support-its-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy">Read more</a>
