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June 22, 2021
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has held national mourning ceremonies at the weekend for the death of Vanuatu independence campaigner Father Allen Nafuki and prayed for the Papuan people to be accepted as full members of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). The closing ceremonies were held in ... <a title="West Papua closes national mourning for Pastor Nafuki – prays for MSG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/22/west-papua-closes-national-mourning-for-pastor-nafuki-prays-for-msg/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua closes national mourning for Pastor Nafuki – prays for MSG">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mariner Fagaiava-Muller, RNZ Pacific Journalist In New Zealand, youth climate change movement School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has declared itself as racist, and disbanded, but young activists say going silent is not the answer. The group had organised large protests in centres throughout the country, becoming the biggest climate protest movement in ... <a title="Problem of racism towards Pasifika in climate change: ‘We want to be valued’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/problem-of-racism-towards-pasifika-in-climate-change-we-want-to-be-valued/" aria-label="Read more about Problem of racism towards Pasifika in climate change: ‘We want to be valued’">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
The Polynesian Panther Party will hold a three-day fonotaga commemoration event this weekend at the University of Auckland’s Fale Pasifika. Whakaako kia Whakaora – Educate to Liberate. Image: RNZ/Polynesian Panthers Dawn Raid apology The Panthers’ golden jubilee couldn’t be more forthcoming, given an announcement made this week of a formal government apology for the 1970s ... <a title="50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/50-years-of-the-polynesian-panthers-it-was-a-time-of-revolution/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Ella Henry, Auckland University of Technology While I am always happy to celebrate any accolades my country and city might garner on the international stage, seeing Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau awarded the top ranking in a recent “most liveable cities” survey left me somewhat flummoxed. In particular, I would argue that many Māori whānau in ... <a title="Auckland is the world’s ‘most liveable city’? Many Māori might disagree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/14/auckland-is-the-worlds-most-liveable-city-many-maori-might-disagree/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland is the world’s ‘most liveable city’? Many Māori might disagree">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
COMMENT: By Rukuwai Tīpene-Allan “Welfare dependent”, “inferior”, “savages”, “natives”… Walking through Parliament, I head to my office in the press gallery, passing gilded portraits of reporters who came before, and I recall that the people who adorn these walls were the same people who published some of the most racist rhetoric that has ever been ... <a title="Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive as a Māori journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/maori-in-the-gallery-coping-with-daily-racism-in-the-beehive-as-a-maori-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive as a Māori journalist">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A collective of community groups in Tahiti trying to preserve a historical-cultural icon at Tautira have condemned the Tahitian government for “deliberately trying to destroy our heritage”. The iconic Tahua-Reva is the community’s sacred mountain on the southeastern tip of Tahiti-Iti, the smaller section adjoining the main island of Tahiti. The ... <a title="Tahitian community groups try to save endangered sacred mountain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/16/tahitian-community-groups-try-to-save-endangered-sacred-mountain/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian community groups try to save endangered sacred mountain">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2021
REVIEW: By Sherry Zhang Last week, writer Sherry Zhang was at the opening night of Auckland Theatre Company’s production of Single Asian Female. She’s waited to see it since 2019 and now, having finally seen it on New Zealand shores, she reflects on the play and what it means to her. I’ve been waiting for ... <a title="Single Asian Female: A reflection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/06/single-asian-female-a-reflection/" aria-label="Read more about Single Asian Female: A reflection">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2021
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom In late 1913 one of the most famous men in Britain arrived in Pago Pago. Rupert Brooke, 26, was a literary sensation at the time and was taking an escape from celebrity to explore the South Seas: “I want to walk a thousand miles, and write a thousand ... <a title="An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/25/an-anzac-story-samoas-link-to-that-wartime-foreign-field/" aria-label="Read more about An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist A Pacific social justice movement is calling on the New Zealand government to formally apologise for the Dawn Raids of the 1970s. The Labour and then National governments of the time authorised police raids on Pasifika homes and work places, to check for overstayers; even churches and schools were ... <a title="Appeal for NZ government to offer apology for race-based Dawn Raids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/appeal-for-nz-government-to-offer-apology-for-race-based-dawn-raids/" aria-label="Read more about Appeal for NZ government to offer apology for race-based Dawn Raids">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
I stayed away from the livestream that we in EMTV produced out of Port Moresby. I did watch parts of it. But it has been hard to watch a full session without becoming emotional and emotion is something that has been in abundance over the last 16 days. There are a thousand and one narratives ... <a title="Scott Waide: Grand Chief Somare and the wisdom he left for everyone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/scott-waide-grand-chief-somare-and-the-wisdom-he-left-for-everyone/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: Grand Chief Somare and the wisdom he left for everyone">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2021
The Loop PNG livestreaming of the Sir Michael Somare funeral in Port Moresby today. Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Somare family has thanked the people of Papua New Guinea for the “incredible outpouring of love and support” during their time of grief, the PNG Post-Courier reports. Today marked the final official event on the programme ... <a title="Somare family says thank you to PNG for the love at Sir Michael’s funeral" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/13/somare-family-says-thank-you-to-png-for-the-love-at-sir-michaels-funeral/" aria-label="Read more about Somare family says thank you to PNG for the love at Sir Michael’s funeral">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa are in search of healing. Trailer: NZIFF Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The documentary Loimata, The Sweetest Tears has won the Grand Prix du Jury at Tahiti’s FIFO (Festival International du Film Documentaire ... <a title="Loimata, The Sweetest Tears carries off grand prize at 2021 FIFO" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/loimata-the-sweetest-tears-carries-off-grand-prize-at-2021-fifo/" aria-label="Read more about Loimata, The Sweetest Tears carries off grand prize at 2021 FIFO">Read more</a>
