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MEAA rethinks press council role and backs need for Facebook media code

March 19, 2021

MEAA video message on YouTube. Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) union is reconsidering its involvement in the Australian Press Council and has appealed to members to give feedback on this issue. Vice-president media Karen Percy has appealed to delegates on a YouTube video to take part in this consultation. ... <a title="MEAA rethinks press council role and backs need for Facebook media code" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/meaa-rethinks-press-council-role-and-backs-need-for-facebook-media-code/" aria-label="Read more about MEAA rethinks press council role and backs need for Facebook media code">Read more</a>

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Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action

March 19, 2021

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Australia and New Zealand – plus other key donors – need to urgently step up and provide assistance to Papuan New Guinea as a covid surge continues to grow, says the human rights watchdog Amnesty International. Both Australia and New Zealand “continue to fail to support calls by around 100 countries”,  ... <a title="Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/amnesty-blasts-woeful-australia-nz-aid-for-png-covid-surge-seeks-action/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action">Read more</a>

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Fiji draft bill cops boot – PM’s move on proposed police law puzzles critics

March 19, 2021

By Wanshika Kumar in Suva Reports that Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has pulled the plug on Fiji’s draft Police Bill 2020 has raised more questions than answers and left critics puzzled. What, when, where, why, and how were pressing questions people asked as they tried to unravel how the bill was thrust into the public ... <a title="Fiji draft bill cops boot – PM’s move on proposed police law puzzles critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/fiji-draft-bill-cops-boot-pms-move-on-proposed-police-law-puzzles-critics/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji draft bill cops boot – PM’s move on proposed police law puzzles critics">Read more</a>

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Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests

March 19, 2021

RNZ Pacific A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons tests says Paris must pay for the full extent of health and other damage caused. Ena Manuireva is a doctoral candidate at Auckland University of Technology. He responds to RNZ’s ... <a title="Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/tahitian-academic-says-paris-must-pay-for-impacts-of-french-nuclear-tests/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests">Read more</a>

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Pioneering Polynesian Panther indigenous rights activist farewelled

March 19, 2021

A pioneering indigenous activist is being farewelled today after losing a short battle with cancer. Miriama Rauhihi Ness was a member of the Polynesian Panthers and Ngā Tamatoa movements, fighting for both Māori and Pasifika rights in New Zealand. Will ‘Ilolahia, a founding member of the Polynesian Panthers, said Rauhihi Ness was always on the ... <a title="Pioneering Polynesian Panther indigenous rights activist farewelled" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/pioneering-polynesian-panther-indigenous-rights-activist-farewelled/" aria-label="Read more about Pioneering Polynesian Panther indigenous rights activist farewelled">Read more</a>

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PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning: Ethical Trade and China + Myanmar’s Descent into Military Rule

March 18, 2021

Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning discuss this week’s revelations by Paula Penfold and the Stuff Circuit team that a New Zealand tech company (with New Zealand Government investment) has been in business with iFlytec – a Chinese company alleged to be involved with surveillance of China’s oppressed Uyghur people. ALSO, we discuss Myanmar and the disturbing reality that Myanmar's military has overthrown once again the democratically elected government.

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Scott Waide: Grand Chief Somare and the wisdom he left for everyone

March 17, 2021

I  stayed away from the livestream that we in EMTV produced out of Port Moresby. I did watch parts of it. But it has been hard to watch a full session without becoming emotional and emotion is  something that has been in abundance over the last 16 days. There are a thousand and one narratives ... <a title="Scott Waide: Grand Chief Somare and the wisdom he left for everyone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/scott-waide-grand-chief-somare-and-the-wisdom-he-left-for-everyone/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: Grand Chief Somare and the wisdom he left for everyone">Read more</a>

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VIDEO: Buchanan + Manning: Ethical Trade and China + Myanmar’s Descent into Military Rule

March 17, 2021

A View from Afar: Political scientist and former Pentagon analysis Paul G. Buchanan and investigative journalist Selwyn Manning and debate security, intelligence, and foreign policy trends and issues. This week’s episode: Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning discuss this week’s revelations by Paula Penfold and the Stuff Circuit team that a New Zealand tech company ... <a title="VIDEO: Buchanan + Manning: Ethical Trade and China + Myanmar’s Descent into Military Rule" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/coming-up-live-buchanan-manning-ethical-trade-and-china-myanmars-descent-into-military-rule/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Buchanan + Manning: Ethical Trade and China + Myanmar’s Descent into Military Rule">Read more</a>

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Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP

March 16, 2021

RNZ News Australia is facing condemnation from National and Green Party MPs over the deportation of a 15-year-old boy to New Zealand. Little detail has been made public about the teen other than that he is being held in a quarantine facility and is receiving support from Oranga Tamariki. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ... <a title="Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/australias-deportation-of-15-year-old-boy-heartbreaking-says-green-mp/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP">Read more</a>

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Jakarta sends 21,000 troops to Papua over last three years, says KNPB

March 16, 2021

By Arnold Belau in Nabire Victor Yeimo, international spokesperson for the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), has revealed that over the past three years the Indonesian state has sent 21,369 troops to the land of Papua. Yeimo said that based on data from the media and public official statements, the number of non-organic TNI (Indonesian ... <a title="Jakarta sends 21,000 troops to Papua over last three years, says KNPB" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/jakarta-sends-21000-troops-to-papua-over-last-three-years-says-knpb/" aria-label="Read more about Jakarta sends 21,000 troops to Papua over last three years, says KNPB">Read more</a>

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A catastrophe looms with PNG’s covid crisis. Australia needs to respond urgently

March 16, 2021

By Brendan Crabb, Burnet Institute and Leanne Robinson, Burnet Institute The covid epidemic in Papua New Guinea has significantly accelerated, judging by the available reports of case numbers. Since its first case was diagnosed 12 months ago, PNG has avoided a large number of reported cases and corresponding deaths. That situation has changed dramatically over ... <a title="A catastrophe looms with PNG’s covid crisis. Australia needs to respond urgently" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/a-catastrophe-looms-with-pngs-covid-crisis-australia-needs-to-respond-urgently/" aria-label="Read more about A catastrophe looms with PNG’s covid crisis. Australia needs to respond urgently">Read more</a>

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Essay – Sustainable Development Goals can guide Asia-Pacific to build back better

March 16, 2021

Op-Ed essay by Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, United Nations-Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) The COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented threat to development in the Asia-Pacific region that could reverse much of the hard-earned progress made in recent years. The good news is we ... <a title="Essay – Sustainable Development Goals can guide Asia-Pacific to build back better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/essay-sustainable-development-goals-can-guide-asia-pacific-to-build-back-better/" aria-label="Read more about Essay – Sustainable Development Goals can guide Asia-Pacific to build back better">Read more</a>