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January 17, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Four researchers and authors from the Asia-Pacific region have provided diverse perspectives on the media in a new global book on intercultural communication. The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Communication published this week offers a global, interdisciplinary, and contextual approach to understanding the complexities of intercultural communication in our diverse and interconnected world. ... <a title="Pacific media perspectives featured by authors in new communication book" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/17/pacific-media-perspectives-featured-by-authors-in-new-communication-book/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific media perspectives featured by authors in new communication book">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Cathy Peters To be Jewish does not mean an automatic identification with the rogue state of Israel. Nor does it mean that Jews are automatically threatened by criticism of Israel, yet our media and Labor and Liberal politicians would have you believe this is the case. We are seeing a debate in Australia ... <a title="Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/10/weaponising-antisemitism-bds-antisemitism-and-the-silencing-of-criticism-of-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of Israel">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and hope for better things this year. Decolonisation issues involving the future of Kanaky New Caledonia and West Papua – and also in the Middle East with controversial United Nations votes by ... <a title="Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/five-pacific-region-geopolitical-betrayals-in-2024/" aria-label="Read more about Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonisation plus a 50th birthday party, reports a BenarNews contributor’s analysis. COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain Vanuatu’s devastating earthquake and dramatic political developments in Tonga and New Caledonia at the end of 2024 set the tone for the coming year in ... <a title="Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/pacific-2025-vanuatu-quake-tongan-and-kanaky-shakeups-trump-questions-set-tone-for-coming-year/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Virgin Australia has confirmed a “serious security incident” with its flight crew members who were in Fiji on New Year’s Day. Virgin Australia’s chief operating officer Stuart Aggs said the incident took place on Tuesday night – New Year’s Eve The crew members were in Fiji on night layover. Fiji ... <a title="Virgin Australia confirms ‘serious security incident’ with crew in Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/virgin-australia-confirms-serious-security-incident-with-crew-in-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about Virgin Australia confirms ‘serious security incident’ with crew in Fiji">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The union for Australian journalists has welcomed the delivery by the federal government of more than $150 million to support the sustainability of public interest journalism over the next four years. Combined with the announcement of the revamped News Bargaining Initiative, this could result in up to $400 million in additional funding ... <a title="MEAA welcomes News MAP funding ‘leg up’ for Australian journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/21/meaa-welcomes-news-map-funding-leg-up-for-australian-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about MEAA welcomes News MAP funding ‘leg up’ for Australian journalism">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Palestinian history is “deliberately ignored” and is being effectively “erased” as part of Western news media narratives, while establishment forces work to shut down anyone speaking out against Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, academics have told a university conference of legal and Middle East experts. Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz
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December 16, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist The seven people hospitalised in Fiji with suspected severe alcohol poisoning are reported to be in a stable condition, says Tourism Fiji chief executive Brent Hill. Seven people, including four Australian tourists and one American, and two other foreigners who live in Fiji, had been drinking cocktails at the ... <a title="Fiji resort guests reported to be stable following suspected alcohol poisoning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/16/fiji-resort-guests-reported-to-be-stable-following-suspected-alcohol-poisoning/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji resort guests reported to be stable following suspected alcohol poisoning">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2024
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter This week, Minister of Racing Winston Peters announced the end of greyhound racing in the interests of animal welfare. Soon after, a law to criminalise killing of redundant racing dogs was passed under urgency in Parliament. The next day, the minister introduced the Racing Industry Amendment Bill to preserve ... <a title="RNZ Mediawatch: Under the sinking lid from offshore tech companies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/15/rnz-mediawatch-under-the-sinking-lid-from-offshore-tech-companies/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Mediawatch: Under the sinking lid from offshore tech companies">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Antony Loewenstein The incoming Trump administration will bring a dangerous brew of Christian nationalism and anti-Palestinian racism Things can always get worse. Much worse. The Biden/Harris administration has bank-rolled and funded Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza, the sight of the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. Israeli soldiers wilfully ... <a title="Israeli extremism has a new best friend in the White House" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/07/israeli-extremism-has-a-new-best-friend-in-the-white-house/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli extremism has a new best friend in the White House">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2024
ABC Pacific Australia’s government is being condemned by climate action groups for discouraging the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from ruling in favour of a court action brought by Vanuatu to determine legal consequences for states that fail to meet fossil reduction commitments. In its submission before the ICJ at The Hague yesterday, Australia argued ... <a title="Climate justice: Action groups livid over Australia’s submission at ICJ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/04/climate-justice-action-groups-livid-over-australias-submission-at-icj/" aria-label="Read more about Climate justice: Action groups livid over Australia’s submission at ICJ">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2024
Despite it being illegal in Australia to recruit soldiers for foreign armies, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) recruiters are hard at work enticing young Australians to join Israel’s army. Michael West Media investigates. INVESTIGATION: By Yaakov Aharon The Israeli war machine is in hyperdrive, and it needs new bodies to throw into the fire. In ... <a title="‘Lone Soldiers’ – new Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/02/lone-soldiers-new-australian-idf-recruits-due-to-arrive-in-israel-in-january/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Lone Soldiers’ – new Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January">Read more</a>
