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July 8, 2023
Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein . . . author of The Palestine Laboratory. Image: The author Asia Pacific Report: LocationsMonday, July 17: ChristchurchPublic meeting, 7pmKnox Centre, Cnr Bealey Avenue & Victoria street, Christchurch (books available)https://www.facebook.com/events/813719740268177/ Tuesday, July 18: Wellington7pmSt Andrews on the Terrace, 30 The Terrace (Unity Books will have a rep there)https://www.facebook.com/events/644521054258279/ Wednesday, July 19: ... <a title="Palestine a testing ground for Israeli ‘occupation war tech’, says author" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/08/palestine-a-testing-ground-for-israeli-occupation-war-tech-says-author/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine a testing ground for Israeli ‘occupation war tech’, says author">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian human rights author and poet has accused successive federal governments of “deliberately aiding and abetting” the 1969 annexation of West Papua by Indonesia and enabling the “stifling” of the Melanesian people’s right to self-determination. In reaffirming his appeal last May for a royal commission into Australia’s policies over West Papua, ... <a title="Author condemns Canberra ‘collusion’ with Jakarta on West Papua atrocities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/06/author-condemns-canberra-collusion-with-jakarta-on-west-papua-atrocities/" aria-label="Read more about Author condemns Canberra ‘collusion’ with Jakarta on West Papua atrocities">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2023
COMMENTARY: A special correspondent in Port Moresby As an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Papua New Guinea government, I have to write anonymously to secure my safety. I am writing to reveal interference by the United States in PNG’s internal affairs which is undermining the bilateral relationship between Australia and PNG. ... <a title="How Washington teamed up with PNG to pip Canberra for ‘control’ of region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/06/how-washington-teamed-up-with-png-to-pip-canberra-for-control-of-region/" aria-label="Read more about How Washington teamed up with PNG to pip Canberra for ‘control’ of region">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Independent nuclear experts have offered to drink water and eat fish from the Pacific Ocean after Japan dumps its nuclear waste water into the Pacific. Japan is planning to ditch over one million tonnes of ALPS-treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific ... <a title="Nuclear experts offer to ‘take a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor wastewater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/04/nuclear-experts-offer-to-take-a-sip-of-japans-treated-reactor-wastewater/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear experts offer to ‘take a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor wastewater">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
By Peter Boyle in Sydney As Pacific communities protest the Japanese government’s plan to dump more than a million tonnes of radioactive waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, Australian anti-nuclear activists are highlighting the complicity of Australian uranium exporting companies. While the Fukushima Daiichi power station operator, Tokyo Electric Power ... <a title="Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/japans-fukushima-nuclear-waste-plan-stirs-pacific-chernobyl-risk-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Independent nuclear experts have offered to drink water and eat fish from the Pacific Ocean after Japan dumps its nuclear waste water into the Pacific. Japan is planning to ditch over one million tonnes of ALPS-treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific ... <a title="Nuclear experts offer ‘taking a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor wastewater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/23/nuclear-experts-offer-taking-a-sip-of-japans-treated-reactor-wastewater/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear experts offer ‘taking a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor wastewater">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor As Australian protesters gathered outside the Brisbane detention centre calling for the freedom of a Nauru refugee, the man pleaded with authorities to release him. Hamid has been held in a hotel room and then the detention centre for months. “They want ... <a title="‘Mental torture’: Protesters seek freedom for detained Iran refugee" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/mental-torture-protesters-seek-freedom-for-detained-iran-refugee/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Mental torture’: Protesters seek freedom for detained Iran refugee">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2023
INTERACTIVE WEBCAST: Join the LIVE recording of Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning’s podcast A View from Afar shortly after midday today Thursday (New Zealand time) and Wednesday 8pm (US EDT). Today, In this episode of A View from Afar political scientist, and former Pentagon analyst, Dr Paul Buchanan, and Selwyn Manning will analyse the ... <a title="LIVE @ Midday: Geopolitical balancing in the South-West Pacific and Does this mean Conflict is inevitable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/live-midday-geopolitical-balancing-in-the-south-west-pacific-and-does-this-mean-conflict-is-inevitable/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE @ Midday: Geopolitical balancing in the South-West Pacific and Does this mean Conflict is inevitable?">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2023
By Hilaire Bule, RNZ Pacific Vanuatu correspondent in Port Vila Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau says Pacific security is about the security of the Pacific peoples and their way of life as identified by Forum leaders in the Boe Declaration. Kalsakau said this reaffirmed climate change as the single greatest threat to regional security. The ... <a title="Climate crisis greatest threat to Pacific regional security, says Vanuatu PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/07/climate-crisis-greatest-threat-to-pacific-regional-security-says-vanuatu-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Climate crisis greatest threat to Pacific regional security, says Vanuatu PM">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2023
South Australia now joins New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland, states which have already passed anti-protest laws imposing severe penalties on people who engage in peaceful civil disobedience. However, South Australia’s new law carries the harshest financial penalties in Australia. Thirteen Upper House Labor and Liberal MPs voted for the Bill, opposed by two ... <a title="South Australia adopts draconian new law curbing peaceful climate protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/south-australia-adopts-draconian-new-law-curbing-peaceful-climate-protest/" aria-label="Read more about South Australia adopts draconian new law curbing peaceful climate protest">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The topic of financial debt is one of the hardest for humans to get their heads around. The normal understanding of a debt is a sacrifice made by one party (the owner of the debt) in favour of another party (the ower) which will be remedied some time in the future ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Visualising Countries’ Deficits and Debts, Surpluses and Credits, in context of the US Government’s Debt Ceiling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/29/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-visualising-countries-deficits-and-debts-surpluses-and-credits-in-context-of-the-us-governments-debt-ceiling/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Visualising Countries’ Deficits and Debts, Surpluses and Credits, in context of the US Government’s Debt Ceiling">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of “non self-governing territories”, citing the “sham” vote in 1969 and the worsening human rights violations in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian region. The UN Special Committee on Decolonisation began its 2023 Pacific Regional Seminar in Bali, ... <a title="Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/protesters-call-for-west-papua-to-be-included-on-un-decolonisation-list/" aria-label="Read more about Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list">Read more</a>
