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September 9, 2024
By Efe Özkan Pro-Palestinian anti-war activists in Australia have protested in Melbourne, disrupting a defence expo set to open on Wednesday. Protesters gathered yesterday in front of companies connected to weapons manufacturing across Melbourne as police were called to prevent an escalation of the events, according to 7News Melbourne. Many police cars and units were ... <a title="Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defense expo in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/09/pro-palestinian-activists-hold-protests-to-disrupt-defense-expo-in-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defense expo in Australia">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
By Amit Sarwal The Paris Olympics might be over, but in a stunning turn of events on the last weekend Australian breakdancing champion Rachael Gunn, known as B-girl Raygun, scored a zero in her debut. The 36-year-old university lecturer with a PhD in cultural studies failed to earn a single point across her three bouts ... <a title="Breaking bad: Why Australia’s Raygun scored zero in Olympics debut" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/breaking-bad-why-australias-raygun-scored-zero-in-olympics-debut/" aria-label="Read more about Breaking bad: Why Australia’s Raygun scored zero in Olympics debut">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne ABC chair Kim Williams has attracted considerable attention with his criticism of the broadcaster’s online news choices. Williams has taken issue with what he sees as the ABC prioritising lifestyle stories over hard news. In the process, he has raised an important issue of principle. Is it ... <a title="Kim Williams is right to criticise how the ABC covers news, but he needs to fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/kim-williams-is-right-to-criticise-how-the-abc-covers-news-but-he-needs-to-fix-it/" aria-label="Read more about Kim Williams is right to criticise how the ABC covers news, but he needs to fix it">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The thing I hate about Western electoral politics in general and US presidential races in particular is that they take the focus off the depravity of the US-centralised Empire itself, and run cover for its criminality. In the coming months you’re going to be hearing a lot of talk about the ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: US presidential races hide the criminality of the Empire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/27/caitlin-johnstone-us-presidential-races-hide-the-criminality-of-the-empire/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: US presidential races hide the criminality of the Empire">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
RNZ Pacific Australia has announced more than A$68 million over the next five years to strengthen and expand Australian broadcasting and media sector engagement across the Indo-Pacific. As part of the Indo-Pacific broadcasting strategy, the ABC will receive just over $40m to increase its content for and about the Pacific, expand Radio Australia’s FM transmission ... <a title="Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/australian-strategy-plans-75m-boost-for-indo-pacific-media-development/" aria-label="Read more about Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
By Jai Bharadwaj of The Australia Today A pivotal book, Waves of Change: Media, Peace, and Development in the Pacific, has been released at the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference hosted by the University of the South Pacific earlier this month in Suva, Fiji. This conference, the first of its kind in 20 years, served ... <a title="Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/groundbreaking-book-waves-of-change-launched-at-pacific-media-conference-in-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in Fiji">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2024
By Khalia Strong of Pacific Media Network News If the pen is mightier than the sword, then an army of journalists has assembled in Fiji’s capital to discuss the state and future of the industry in the region. The three-day Pacific Media Conference 2024 on July 4-6 is organised and hosted by the University of ... <a title="Newsmakers dissect state and future of Pacific journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/13/newsmakers-dissect-state-and-future-of-pacific-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about Newsmakers dissect state and future of Pacific journalism">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2024
Professor David Robie is among this year’s New Zealand Order of Merit awardees and was on the King’s Birthday Honours list earlier this month for his “services to journalism and Asia-Pacific media education.” His career in journalism has spanned five decades. He was the founding editor of the Pacific Journalism Review journal in 1994 and ... <a title="Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/29/decolonisation-the-climate-crisis-and-improving-media-education-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The reported plea bargain between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the United States government brings to a close one of the darkest periods in the history of media freedom, says the union for Australian journalists. While the details of the deal are still to be confirmed, MEAA welcomed the release of Assange, ... <a title="Plea deal ends personal ordeal for Julian Assange, but still media freedom concerns, says MEAA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/25/plea-deal-ends-personal-ordeal-for-julian-assange-but-still-media-freedom-concerns-says-meaa/" aria-label="Read more about Plea deal ends personal ordeal for Julian Assange, but still media freedom concerns, says MEAA">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2024
“In the aftermath of the ‘No’ denying an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in Australia, I deeply sympathise with the Kanak people’s frustration, fear, and anger at being outvoted and dismissed,” writes Angelina Hurley. COMMENTARY: By Angelina Hurley After the trauma of completing a PhD on decolonising Australian humour, I needed a well-deserved break. I always ... <a title="Amid Kanaky New Caledonia’s unrest, I saw first-hand the same colonial white privilege that caused it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/27/amid-kanaky-new-caledonias-unrest-i-saw-first-hand-the-same-colonial-white-privilege-that-caused-it/" aria-label="Read more about Amid Kanaky New Caledonia’s unrest, I saw first-hand the same colonial white privilege that caused it">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Antoinette Lattouf Sorry Palestinian women and children. It seems Australia’s leading women’s media company has more pressing issues to cover than the seemingly endless human rights atrocities committed against you. It’s been seven months of almost complete silence from Mamamia and their most popular writers and podcast hosts. I’ve respected and appreciated their ... <a title="Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/antoinette-lattouf-a-disheartening-feminist-silence-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A Pacific regionalism academic has called out New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters for withholding information from the public on AUKUS and says the security deal “raises serious questions for the Pacific region”. Auckland University of Technology academic Dr Marco de Jong said Pasifika voices must be ... <a title="‘Don’t mistake Pacific leaders AUKUS quietness’ as support for NZ, says academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/dont-mistake-pacific-leaders-aukus-quietness-as-support-for-nz-says-academic/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t mistake Pacific leaders AUKUS quietness’ as support for NZ, says academic">Read more</a>
