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May 9, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A former Tuvalu prime minister says while the New Zealand government’s oil and gas plans show it is concerned about its economy, he is more concerned about the livelihoods and survival of the Tuvalu people. Enele Sopoaga — who still serves as an MP in Tuvalu — says the ... <a title="‘Completely stupid’ – ex-Tuvalu PM plea to NZ to rethink fossil fuel plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/completely-stupid-ex-tuvalu-pm-plea-to-nz-to-rethink-fossil-fuel-plan/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Completely stupid’ – ex-Tuvalu PM plea to NZ to rethink fossil fuel plan">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Wansolwara The news media’s crucial role in climate change and environment journalism was the focus of The University of the South Pacific’s Journalism Programme 2024 World Press Freedom Day celebrations. The European Union Ambassador to the Pacific, Barbara Plinkert, and Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna were the chief guests at the event last ... <a title="Tackling Pacific media’s crucial role in climate crisis and press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/tackling-pacific-medias-crucial-role-in-climate-crisis-and-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Tackling Pacific media’s crucial role in climate crisis and press freedom">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2024
Asia Pacific Report From Whangārei in the north to Invercargill in the south, thousands took to the streets of Aotearoa New Zealand in today’s climate strike, RNZ News reports. Hundreds march on Parliament in Wellngton. But it was not just about the climate crisis — the day’s event was led by a coalition including Toitū ... <a title="Thousands march across NZ demanding climate crisis action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/06/thousands-march-across-nz-demanding-climate-crisis-action/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands march across NZ demanding climate crisis action">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Earthwise hosts Lois and Martin Griffiths. Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and media educator with a passion for the Asia-Pacific region. David talks about the struggle to raise awareness of critical Pacific issues such ... <a title="Earthwise talks to David Robie on Pacific issues and news media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/19/earthwise-talks-to-david-robie-on-pacific-issues-and-news-media/" aria-label="Read more about Earthwise talks to David Robie on Pacific issues and news media">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2024
RNZ News Outspoken MP Chlöe Swarbrick will be the Green Party’s new co-leader alongside Marama Davidson, as climate change specialist James Shaw steps down. Last month, Shaw said he would be stepping down from his duties as co-leader in March. Dunedin-based activist and conservationist Alex Foulkes had put his hand up too for the role ... <a title="Chlöe Swarbrick to replace NZ’s outgoing Green Party co-leader James Shaw" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/10/chloe-swarbrick-to-replace-nzs-outgoing-green-party-co-leader-james-shaw/" aria-label="Read more about Chlöe Swarbrick to replace NZ’s outgoing Green Party co-leader James Shaw">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2024
By Alex Bainbridge, Peter Boyle, Isaac Nellist, Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan Ellis, Alex Salmon, Stephen W Enciso and Khaled Ghannam of Green Left Thousands marched for Palestine across Australia at the weekend in the wake of Israel’s massacre of more than 100 starving Palestinians who were trying to get flour from an aid truck southwest of ... <a title="Protests demand UNRWA funding restored as Israel starves Palestinians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/06/protests-demand-unrwa-funding-restored-as-israel-starves-palestinians/" aria-label="Read more about Protests demand UNRWA funding restored as Israel starves Palestinians">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2024
World Council of Churches Today is Remembrance Day — marking the 70th anniversary of the largest US nuclear test detonation, Castle Bravo, which took place over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 1 March 1954. As one Marshallese resident noted: “It’s not the middle of nowhere to those who call it home.” When Castle ... <a title="Victims and survivors of nuclear testing honoured in Marshall Islands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/02/victims-and-survivors-of-nuclear-testing-honoured-in-marshall-islands/" aria-label="Read more about Victims and survivors of nuclear testing honoured in Marshall Islands">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Pro-independence militants and protesters clashed with police in downtown Nouméa this week as New Caledonia hosts three French government ministers. The crowd — an estimated 2000 according to organisers, 500 according to police — had been called on Wednesday to voice their opposition to a French-planned constitutional amendment process which would include modification of New ... <a title="Pro-independence protesters, French police clash in New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/pro-independence-protesters-french-police-clash-in-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-independence protesters, French police clash in New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2024
By Monika Singh of Wansolwara The fourth smallest country in the world with a population of just over 11,000 people — Tuvalu — fears being “wiped off its place on the map”. A report by ABC Pacific states that the low-lying island nation is widely considered one of the first places to be significantly impacted ... <a title="Tuvalu residents fight for their home in face of worsening tides and climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/21/tuvalu-residents-fight-for-their-home-in-face-of-worsening-tides-and-climate-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Tuvalu residents fight for their home in face of worsening tides and climate crisis">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A political commentator says Green Party co-leader James Shaw was a “friend of the Pacific”. Shaw, who was previously New Zealand’s climate change minister for six years, announced this week he will be stepping aside as party co-leader in March. Political commentator Thomas Wynne told RNZ Pacific that Shaw ... <a title="NZ’s Green Party co-leader James Shaw had ‘good Pacific relationship’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/nzs-green-party-co-leader-james-shaw-had-good-pacific-relationship/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Green Party co-leader James Shaw had ‘good Pacific relationship’">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2024
RNZ News As New Zealand’s former climate change minister James Shaw prepares to step down from the Green Party’s co-leadership role, the space has opened for a new contender. Speaking after today’s announcement, co-leader Marama Davidson refused to guarantee she too would not step down before the election but said she would stay on for ... <a title="Pasifika MP among possibles for NZ’s new Green co-leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/30/pasifika-mp-among-possibles-for-nzs-new-green-co-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about Pasifika MP among possibles for NZ’s new Green co-leadership">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller – Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz) New Zealand’s international relations are under new management. And Winston Peters, the new foreign minister, is already setting a change agenda. As expected, this includes a more pro-US positioning when it comes to the Pacific – where Peters will be picking up where he left off. Peters sought ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Analysis – New Zealand’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/04/geoffrey-millers-analysis-new-zealands-foreign-policy-resets-on-aukus-gaza-and-ukraine/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Analysis – New Zealand’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine">Read more</a>
