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August 12, 2025
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has been ejected from Parliament’s debating chamber and told to leave for the rest of the week after a fiery speech about the war in Gaza. The incident occured during an urgent debate this afternoon which was called after the ... <a title="Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick barred from NZ Parliament for rest of week after fiery Gaza speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/12/greens-co-leader-chloe-swarbrick-barred-from-nz-parliament-for-rest-of-week-after-fiery-gaza-speech/" aria-label="Read more about Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick barred from NZ Parliament for rest of week after fiery Gaza speech">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2025
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch I never knew Anas al-Sharif personally. But somehow he seemed to be part of our whānau. We watched so many of his reports from Gaza that it just appeared he would be always around keeping us up-to-date on the horrifying events in the besieged enclave. Although he ... <a title="Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens all journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/12/why-israels-assassination-of-al-jazeeras-anas-al-sharif-and-crew-threatens-all-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens all journalists">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A leading advocacy group supporting Palerstine has called on the government to follow Germany’s lead and suspend New Zealand military support for Israel to continue its mass killing and mass starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Germany and New Zealand were two of the countries to sign a letter yesterday condemning Israel’s plans ... <a title="PSNA calls on Luxon to end ‘support’ for Israel as Australia plans backing for Palestine state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/psna-calls-on-luxon-to-end-support-for-israel-as-australia-plans-backing-for-palestine-state/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA calls on Luxon to end ‘support’ for Israel as Australia plans backing for Palestine state">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Pacific affairs and media commentator Dr David Robie reflected on the 1985 Rainbow Warrior mission to Rongelap atoll to help US nuclear refugees and the bombing of the Greenpeace campaign ship by French secret agents in a kōrero hosted by the NZ Fabian Society. His analysis is that far from the sabotage ... <a title="France’s betrayal of Kanak hopes for independence, Rainbow Warrior, climate crisis and other issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/frances-betrayal-of-kanak-hopes-for-independence-rainbow-warrior-climate-crisis-and-other-issues/" aria-label="Read more about France’s betrayal of Kanak hopes for independence, Rainbow Warrior, climate crisis and other issues">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement today that it is appalled to learn of the killing of an Al Jazeera media crew of five, including journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa by Israeli forces in Gaza. The journalists were killed ... <a title="CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/cpj-condemns-israeli-killing-of-gaza-journalist-anas-al-sharif-and-video-crew-of-four/" aria-label="Read more about CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England Another truth-teller targeted and killed in Gaza. I wish the journalists — some of whom I taught to master the skills of journalism, would look at this travesty and call it what it is: a genocide. I wish they would remember that journalists have a code of ethics, I wish they ... <a title="Another Gaza injustice. Israel targets Anas in Al Jazeera media crew of 5" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/another-gaza-injustice-israel-targets-anas-in-al-jazeera-media-crew-of-5/" aria-label="Read more about Another Gaza injustice. Israel targets Anas in Al Jazeera media crew of 5">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The world’s most important hostage — must be released. The powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the genocide they may recognise the state of Palestine. States need leaders. That’s why Marwan Barghouti – often dubbed the Palestinian Mandela — must be freed. A former head of Israel’s ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/06/eugene-doyle-recognise-palestine-then-free-marwan-barghouti/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Clancy Overell, editor of The Betoota Advocate After years of sitting on the fence and looking the other way, the Australian media is today reckoning with the fact that showing basic sympathy towards the starving and war-weary people of Gaza is actually a very mainstream sentiment. This explosive moment of self-reflection has rocked ... <a title="Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend well beyond university lawns and Instagram" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/australian-media-faces-existential-crisis-after-realising-free-palestine-might-extend-well-beyond-university-lawns-and-instagram/" aria-label="Read more about Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend well beyond university lawns and Instagram">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on the Israeli arms and surveillance industry, says Australian protesters are “outraged” not just by what Israel is doing in Gaza, but also by the Australian government’s “complicity”. Loewenstein, who also spoke at the rally, told Al Jazeera that Australia has, for many ... <a title="Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/palestine-surveillance-author-says-australian-protesters-outraged-by-israels-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A former senior UN aid official has condemned the bloodshed at the notorious US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid food depots, describing the distribition system as having turned into a “catastrophe”. The number of aid seekers killed continues to climb daily beyond 1000. Martin Griffiths, director of Mediation Group International and ... <a title="Bloodshed at GHF-run Gaza aid sites ‘a great sin’, says former top UN official" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/bloodshed-at-ghf-run-gaza-aid-sites-a-great-sin-says-former-top-un-official/" aria-label="Read more about Bloodshed at GHF-run Gaza aid sites ‘a great sin’, says former top UN official">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand is lagging behind the rest of the world through its failure to recognise Palestinian statehood, says Former Prime Minister Helen Clark. Canada yesterday became the latest country to announce it would formally recognise the state of Palestine when world leaders met at the UN General ... <a title="NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says former PM Helen Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/nz-lagging-behind-world-by-failing-to-recognise-palestinian-statehood-says-former-pm-helen-clark/" aria-label="Read more about NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says former PM Helen Clark">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor A former New Caledonia Congress president says there are “not enough” benefits for Kanaks in a new “draft” agreement he signed alongside pro and anti-independence stakeholders in France last month. Roch Wamytan said that, after 10 days of deadlock discussions in Paris, he failed to secure the pro-independence ... <a title="Roch Wamytan: Paris political agreement for New Caledonia ‘not enough’ for Kanaks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/roch-wamytan-paris-political-agreement-for-new-caledonia-not-enough-for-kanaks/" aria-label="Read more about Roch Wamytan: Paris political agreement for New Caledonia ‘not enough’ for Kanaks">Read more</a>
