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December 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific The Solomon Islands prime minister came in for searing criticism when he faced a confidence vote in Parliament today. A motion of no confidence against Manasseh Sogavare was debated amid tight security in the capital Honiara, where hundreds of regional security forces have deployed following major political unrest less than two weeks ago. ... <a title="Solomons PM condemned during confidence debate, but survives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/solomons-pm-condemned-during-confidence-debate-but-survives/" aria-label="Read more about Solomons PM condemned during confidence debate, but survives">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Shocking footage has been circulating on social media showing National Armed Forces (TNI) Indonesian military helicopters firing indiscriminately at civilian villages in Suru-Suru District, Yahukimo Regency, Papua. Video: via Café Pacific SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya This past week marked 60 years since West Papua declared independence on 1 December 1961. Around the world, Papuans ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: 60 years ago, Indonesia invaded West Papua with guns. 60 years later, they’re still ruling with guns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/yamin-kogoya-60-years-ago-indonesia-invaded-west-papua-with-guns-60-years-later-theyre-still-ruling-with-guns/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: 60 years ago, Indonesia invaded West Papua with guns. 60 years later, they’re still ruling with guns">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sue Ahearn, co-editor of The Pacific Newsroom Did you notice anything different about the news coverage of the recent unrest in Honiara? Those fast-breaking stories on Australia’s television, radio and online networks were not presented by Australian journalists but by Solomon Islanders professionally reporting from the frontlines of the riots. There wasn’t ... <a title="Solomon Islands – where the world news talent is all local" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/solomon-islands-where-the-world-news-talent-is-all-local/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands – where the world news talent is all local">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific A group of citizens in New Caledonia has asked France’s highest administrative court to postpone next Sunday’s third and final independence referendum. In an urgent submission, 146 voters and three organisations said that given the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, it was “unthinkable” to proceed with such an important plebiscite. They said that ... <a title="‘Unthinkable’ referendum on New Caledonia independence challenged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/unthinkable-referendum-on-new-caledonia-independence-challenged/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Unthinkable’ referendum on New Caledonia independence challenged">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
By Robert Iroga in Honiara The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) has appealed to opposition leader Matthew Wale to “stop interfering” with police investigations in the wake of the rioting in Honiara last month. “It is unfortunate that the leader of opposition, Mr Mathew Wale, attempted to question an ongoing investigation by police in ... <a title="‘Don’t interfere’, Solomon Islands police tell opposition leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/dont-interfere-solomon-islands-police-tell-opposition-leader/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t interfere’, Solomon Islands police tell opposition leader">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Reporters Without Borders One week ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony, the #HoldtheLine Coalition has called on the government of the Philippines to drop all pending cases and charges against veteran journalist and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and grant her unrestricted permission to travel to Oslo to accept this international award. The government ... <a title="#HoldTheLine coalition demands charges against Maria Ressa be dropped before Nobel awards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/holdtheline-coalition-demands-charges-against-maria-ressa-be-dropped-before-nobel-awards/" aria-label="Read more about #HoldTheLine coalition demands charges against Maria Ressa be dropped before Nobel awards">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific The latest members of New Zealand’s Defence Force and police contingent have arrived in Honiara after days of unrest in the Solomon Islands capital. They are part of a regional peacekeeping force that also includes teams from Australia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Two flights landed in Honiara yesterday afternoon from Ōhakea and ... <a title="More NZ peacekeepers arrive to help defuse tensions in Solomon Islands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/more-nz-peacekeepers-arrive-to-help-defuse-tensions-in-solomon-islands/" aria-label="Read more about More NZ peacekeepers arrive to help defuse tensions in Solomon Islands">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
RNZ News An anti-vax protest that shut down the centre of Newmarket in New Zealand’s largest city Auckland today may have cost local businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost customers, says the local business association. Hundreds gathered at 11am at the Auckland Domain before heading to Westfield Newmarket shopping mall via Carlton Gore ... <a title="‘Shameless, misguided’ NZ anti-vax protesters cost Newmarket stores" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/shameless-misguided-nz-anti-vax-protesters-cost-newmarket-stores/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Shameless, misguided’ NZ anti-vax protesters cost Newmarket stores">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
By Dhias Suwandi in Jayapura Eight youths have been declared suspects on charges of makar (treason, subversion, rebellion) for flying the banned Papuan independence flag Morning Star at the Cenderawasih Sports Centre in the capital Jayapura this week on December 1. The Morning Star is a symbol used as a flag by the Free Papua ... <a title="Indonesian police charge 8 Papuan youths with ‘treason’ over flying Morning Star" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/indonesian-police-charge-8-papuan-youths-with-treason-over-flying-morning-star/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian police charge 8 Papuan youths with ‘treason’ over flying Morning Star">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific Vanuatu’s Shefa province is recognising Benny Wenda as the interim president of a provisional “independent” West Papuan government. In a country that has historically been the most vocal in support of West Papuan self-determination rights, Shefa province is the first authority in the country to officially recognise an independent West Papua government. Wenda, ... <a title="Vanuatu’s Shefa province recognises Wenda’s West Papua government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/vanuatus-shefa-province-recognises-wendas-west-papua-government/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu’s Shefa province recognises Wenda’s West Papua government">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Labor’s Chris Bowen made a very pertinent contribution on Monday to the debate over whether the Liberals should run Gladys Berejiklian, the subject of an ICAC investigation, in the Sydney seat of Warringah. What would the Liberals and the media ... <a title="View from The Hill: Running Berejiklian ahead of ICAC report would send the worst of signals on integrity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/view-from-the-hill-running-berejiklian-ahead-of-icac-report-would-send-the-worst-of-signals-on-integrity-173262/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Running Berejiklian ahead of ICAC report would send the worst of signals on integrity">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Gilbert, Researcher (Indigenous Policy) Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research and Higher Degree Research Student at Charles Sturt University, University of Technology Sydney Much of the debate on Indigenous agriculture in Australia has focused on a contested pre-colonial definition as to whether Aboriginal and Torres ... <a title="Australia’s agriculture sector sorely needs more insights from First Nations people. Here’s how we get there" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/australias-agriculture-sector-sorely-needs-more-insights-from-first-nations-people-heres-how-we-get-there-173154/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s agriculture sector sorely needs more insights from First Nations people. Here’s how we get there">Read more</a>
