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May 2, 2025
Teals and Greens are under political attack from a new pro-fossil fuel, pro-Israel astroturfing group, adding to the onslaught by far-right lobbyists Advance Australia for Australian federal election tomorrow — World Press Freedom Day. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon investigate. SPECIAL REPORT: By Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon On February 12 this year, former prime ... <a title="Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals and Greens for Australian election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/dark-money-labor-and-liberal-join-forces-in-attacks-on-teals-and-greens-for-australian-election/" aria-label="Read more about Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals and Greens for Australian election">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Thousands of senior hospital doctors and specialists walked off the job today for an unprecedented 24-hour strike in protest over stalled contract negotiations and thousands of other health workers protested across Aotearoa New Zealand against the coalition government’s cutbacks to the public health service Te Whatu Ora. In spite of the disruptive ... <a title="Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/gallery-doctors-health-workers-challenge-nz-government-over-national-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Broadcasting Standards Authority New Zealand’s Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has upheld complaints about two 1News reports relating to violence around a football match in Amsterdam between local team Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv. The authority found an item on “antisemitic violence” surrounding the match, and another on heightened security in Paris the following week, ... <a title="Inaccurate 1News reporting on football violence breached broadcasting standards, rules BSA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/inaccurate-1news-reporting-on-football-violence-breached-broadcasting-standards-rules-bsa/" aria-label="Read more about Inaccurate 1News reporting on football violence breached broadcasting standards, rules BSA">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small, but important, step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed, writes Dr Ilan Pappé ANALYSIS: By Ilan Pappé Responses in the Western world to the genocide ... <a title="On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s silence on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/on-moral-panic-and-the-courage-to-speak-the-wests-silence-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s silence on Gaza">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled the country is not a fairy tale, it is not a one-dimensional parable of resurrection, of liberation from oppression, of joy for all — but there is a great deal to celebrate. After over a century of brutal colonial oppression ... <a title="50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/50-years-after-the-fall-of-saigon-from-triumph-to-trump/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to Trump">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Filipo Tarakinikini has been appointed as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel. This has been stated on two official X, formerly Twitter, handle posts overnight. “#Fiji is determined to deepen its relations with #Israel as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel, HE Ambassador @AFTarakinikini prepares to present his credentials on 28 April, 2025,” stated ... <a title="Tarakinikini appointed as Fiji’s ambassador-designate to Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/29/tarakinikini-appointed-as-fijis-ambassador-designate-to-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Tarakinikini appointed as Fiji’s ambassador-designate to Israel">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Activists for Palestine paid homage to Pope Francis in Aotearoa New Zealand today for his humility, care for marginalised in the world, and his courageous solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza at a street theatre rally just hours before his funeral in Rome. He was remembered and thanked for his daily ... <a title="Homage paid to Pope Francis at NZ street theatre rally for Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/27/homage-paid-to-pope-francis-at-nz-street-theatre-rally-for-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Homage paid to Pope Francis at NZ street theatre rally for Palestine">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Nour Odeh There was faint hope that efforts to achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza would succeed. That hope is now all but gone, offering 2.1 million tormented and starved Palestinians dismal prospects for the days and weeks ahead. Last Saturday, the Israeli Prime Minister once again affirmed he had no intention to ... <a title="Israel’s endgame for tormented Gaza is political and physical erasure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/25/israels-endgame-for-tormented-gaza-is-political-and-physical-erasure/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s endgame for tormented Gaza is political and physical erasure">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2025
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The former head of BenarNews’ Pacific bureau says a United States court ruling this week ordering the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to release congressionally approved funding to Radio Free Asia and its subsidiaries “makes us very happy”. However, Stefan Armbruster, who has played a key role in ... <a title="Pacific editor welcomes US court ruling in favour of Radio Free Asia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/25/pacific-editor-welcomes-us-court-ruling-in-favour-of-radio-free-asia/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific editor welcomes US court ruling in favour of Radio Free Asia">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network today condemned the Fiji government’s failure to stand up for international law and justice over the Israeli war on Gaza in their weekly Black Thursday protest. “For the past 18 months, we have made repeated requests to our government to do the bare minimum and enforce ... <a title="Open letter to Fijians – ‘why is our country supporting Israel’s heinous crimes in Gaza?’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/25/open-letter-to-fijians-why-is-our-country-supporting-israels-heinous-crimes-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to Fijians – ‘why is our country supporting Israel’s heinous crimes in Gaza?’">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted a preliminary injunction in Widakuswara v Lake, affirming the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) was unlawfully shuttered by the Trump administration, Acting Director Victor Morales and Special Adviser Kari Lake. The decision enshrines that USAGM must fulfill its legally required ... <a title="Victory for US press freedom and workers – court grants injunction in VOA media case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/23/victory-for-us-press-freedom-and-workers-court-grants-injunction-in-voa-media-case/" aria-label="Read more about Victory for US press freedom and workers – court grants injunction in VOA media case">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2025
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as ... <a title="Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/mediawatch-jailed-australian-foreign-correspondents-life-spread-across-the-big-screen/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen">Read more</a>
