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June 25, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A new poll by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union shows that almost half of respondents oppose the Cook Islands having automatic New Zealand citizenship. Thirty percent of the 1000-person sample supported Cook Islanders retaining citizenship, 46 percent were opposed and 24 percent were unsure. The question asked: The Cook ... <a title="Nearly half of Kiwis oppose automatic citizenship for Cook Islands, says poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/25/nearly-half-of-kiwis-oppose-automatic-citizenship-for-cook-islands-says-poll/" aria-label="Read more about Nearly half of Kiwis oppose automatic citizenship for Cook Islands, says poll">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University The ACT Party’s election promise of a referendum for Aotearoa New Zealand to redefine and enshrine the “principles” of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) is likely to dominate debate at this year’s Rātana and Waitangi Day events. ACT’s coalition agreement with the National Party commits ... <a title="Waitangi 2024: how NZ’s Tiriti strengthens democracy and checks unbridled power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/26/waitangi-2024-how-nzs-tiriti-strengthens-democracy-and-checks-unbridled-power/" aria-label="Read more about Waitangi 2024: how NZ’s Tiriti strengthens democracy and checks unbridled power">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
By John Mitchell in Suva Fiji got to celebrate World Oceans Day this week — a day when our conscience gets the occasional prick on matters related to the value of the ocean in sustaining life. I like to brag about growing up surrounded by the sea and those unique moments during childhood I spent ... <a title="John Mitchell: Planet Ocean – tides are changing, but halt plastic horror" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/john-mitchell-planet-ocean-tides-are-changing-but-halt-plastic-horror/" aria-label="Read more about John Mitchell: Planet Ocean – tides are changing, but halt plastic horror">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2023
PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside. Video: ABC News ABC PACIFIC BEAT: By Marian Faa, Prianka Srinivasan and Belinda Kora Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister has stepped aside after a widespread backlash to comments he made in defence of a video his daughter posted on TikTok. Justin Tkatchenko called critics of the video “primitive ... <a title="PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside over video row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/13/pngs-foreign-minister-justin-tkatchenko-steps-aside-over-video-row/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside over video row">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2023
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter The Australian government has announced a direct pathway to citizenship for New Zealanders, ending a tension between the two countries that has lasted for more than 20 years. Since 2001, New Zealanders in Australia have been able to reside there on a Special Category Visa. While it has ... <a title="Australia announces pathway to citizenship for New Zealanders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/23/australia-announces-pathway-to-citizenship-for-new-zealanders/" aria-label="Read more about Australia announces pathway to citizenship for New Zealanders">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
RNZ Pacific Switzerland will not allow visa-free entry for Vanuatu citizens whose passports were issued on or after May 25, 2015. The ban will stay in place until February 3, 2023. This follows a decision in March by the European Union’s Council to partially call off the visa waiver agreement with Vanuatu. The EU had ... <a title="Switzerland bans most Vanuatu visa free entry over ‘golden threat’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/switzerland-bans-most-vanuatu-visa-free-entry-over-golden-threat/" aria-label="Read more about Switzerland bans most Vanuatu visa free entry over ‘golden threat’">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2022
RNZ Pacific In Vanuatu, one key party in the government says it will boycott tomorrow’s planned session of Parliament. That session is due to consider several constitutional amendments and the leader of the Reunification of Movements for Change party, former Prime Minister Charlot Salwai, said there had been no consultation with civil society. Salwai’s party ... <a title="Former Vanuatu PM Salwai’s party to boycott parliament session" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/10/former-vanuatu-pm-salwais-party-to-boycott-parliament-session/" aria-label="Read more about Former Vanuatu PM Salwai’s party to boycott parliament session">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin, 6 July 2020 Three Citizenships The concept of ‘citizenship’ has both general and specific meanings. The most specific and familiar I call passport citizenship. A passport citizen of a country is a person holding a passport for that country, or with unambiguous entitlement to hold such a passport. More than anything a ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Duty of Care and Economic Citizenship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/07/keith-rankin-analysis-duty-of-care-and-economic-citizenship/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Duty of Care and Economic Citizenship">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News The federal government has lodged an appeal to overturn a Federal Court decision recognising the Australian citizenship of a man born in pre-independence Papua New Guinea. Troyzone Zen Lee won a four-year battle with the federal government last month after being told in 2016 he was not an Australian ... <a title="Canberra appeals court ruling that PNG-born man is Australian" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/canberra-appeals-court-ruling-that-png-born-man-is-australian/" aria-label="Read more about Canberra appeals court ruling that PNG-born man is Australian">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2019
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila The Chinese Embassy has for a second time failed to respond to a request for comment concerning its role in the arrest, detention and planned deportation of six Chinese nationals on Vanuatu soil. The Vanuatu Daily Post originally contacted the embassy by telephone last week, but were instructed to ... <a title="Some detained Chinese accused were Vanuatu support citizenship applicants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/05/some-detained-chinese-accused-were-vanuatu-support-citizenship-applicants/" aria-label="Read more about Some detained Chinese accused were Vanuatu support citizenship applicants">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2019
Keith Rankin, 26 February 2019 Until late 2018, New Zealand’s immigration statistics have been woefully inadequate. While it has always been possible to keep taps on the total number of people in the country – through births, deaths, and net international passenger movements – ‘official’ net immigration numbers have long been calculated by stated intentions ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Improving New Zealand’s Immigration Statistics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/26/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-improving-new-zealands-immigration-statistics/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Improving New Zealand’s Immigration Statistics">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2018
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