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July 27, 2025
INTERVIEW: By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist One of the first women to hold an open seat in Bougainville, Theonila Roka Matbob, is confident she can win again. Bougainville goes to the polls in the first week of September, and Roka Matbob aims to hold on to her Ioro seat in central Bougainville, where ... <a title="Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/27/bougainville-woman-cabinet-minister-battling-nine-men-to-hold-her-seat/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2025
RNZ Pacific Despite calls from women’s groups urging the government to implement policies to address the underrepresentation of women in politics, the introduction of temporary special measures (TSM) to increase women’s political representation in Fiji remains a distant goal. This week, leader of the Social Democratic Liberal Party (Sodelpa), Cabinet Minister Aseri Radrodro, and opposition ... <a title="Why special measures to boost Fiji women’s political representation remain a distant goal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/24/why-special-measures-to-boost-fiji-womens-political-representation-remain-a-distant-goal/" aria-label="Read more about Why special measures to boost Fiji women’s political representation remain a distant goal">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
On Wednesday next week, the people of Kiribati go to the polls in the first of two votes for a new government. The second vote is on Monday, August 19, after which nominations will be made for president with that vote to happen in September or October. Don Wiseman spoke with RNZ Pacific correspondent in ... <a title="What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/what-are-the-issues-facing-kiribati-as-it-prepares-for-elections/" aria-label="Read more about What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s newly-elected President Moetai Brotherson has presented a 10-member government, which includes four women. Brotherson has confirmed his pre-election choice of Eliane Tevahitua as Vice-President as well as Culture, Lands and Environment Minister. Several of the ministers are new to politics, with 29-year-old Jordy Chan as Infrastructure and Transport Minister being the ... <a title="Four women feature in Tahiti’s new Tavini Huira’atira government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/four-women-feature-in-tahitis-new-tavini-huiraatira-government/" aria-label="Read more about Four women feature in Tahiti’s new Tavini Huira’atira government">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2022
RNZ Pacific A woman candidate appears to have won a seat for the first time in Vanuatu in more than a decade in unofficial results from last week’s snap election. Julie King, a member of the Union of Moderate Parties, is reported to have won one of the seats in the Efate constituency. She is ... <a title="Vanuatu may have first woman MP in decade, say poll reports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/21/vanuatu-may-have-first-woman-mp-in-decade-say-poll-reports/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu may have first woman MP in decade, say poll reports">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2022
By Gorethy Kenneth of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby If there is a glimmer of hope in Papua New Guinea’s violence marred national general elections, then it has to be the elevation of a lone woman to the National Parliament. It took the People’s National Congress (PNC) Governor-elect of Central Province, Rufina Peter, three ... <a title="Hope for women in PNG elections – Peter becomes lone female governor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/09/hope-for-women-in-png-elections-peter-becomes-lone-female-governor/" aria-label="Read more about Hope for women in PNG elections – Peter becomes lone female governor">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
RNZ Pacific A female candidate in the Papua New Guinea elections believes it is more important than ever that the country has women MPs in Parliament. Dulciana Somare-Brash is the daughter of the late Sir Michael Somare and she unsuccessfully stood in the East Sepik regional seat in 2017, finishing fourth in the vote count. ... <a title="Women MPs vital for PNG’s future, says campaigning Somare-Brash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/women-mps-vital-for-pngs-future-says-campaigning-somare-brash/" aria-label="Read more about Women MPs vital for PNG’s future, says campaigning Somare-Brash">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
ANALYSIS: By ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki As in 2008, 2010 and 2014, none of the female candidates standing in Tonga’s 2021 general election this week have been successful. Out of a total of 38,500 votes, 34,198 were cast for the male candidates and only 4352 were cast for the 12 female candidates, down from 14 percent of ... <a title="No women elected in Tonga: time to change the story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/no-women-elected-in-tonga-time-to-change-the-story/" aria-label="Read more about No women elected in Tonga: time to change the story">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Fuimaono Dylan Asafo Samoa’s Court of Appeal (CA) ruled yesterday that Article 44(1A) of the Constitution requires that six women should sit in Parliament. With all due respect, I believe that the CA’s decision was incorrect. This is on the grounds that the CA has overreached its powers by encroaching on the law-making ... <a title="Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/fuimaono-dylan-asafo-samoan-ruling-an-unfortunate-case-of-judicial-overreach/" aria-label="Read more about Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
By Barney Orere in Port Moresby The five reserved seats for women being put forward by Papua New Guinea’s special parliamentary committee on gender-based violence has been rejected by women and a petition is on its way to demand different proposal. The women will petition the parliamentary committee to voice their disapproval about the five ... <a title="PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new scheme" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/png-women-reject-5-seat-gender-plan-as-a-farce-propose-new-scheme/" aria-label="Read more about PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new scheme">Read more</a>
