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February 18, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis It is common practice for journalists to share contact details and locations in hostile environments such as war zones. Something is very wrong when news organisations in New Zealand share those details about their staff covering a story in downtown Wellington. Stuff’s head of news Mark Stevens disclosed last Friday that ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/gavin-ellis-copycat-media-abuse-from-ragtag-bag-of-protesters/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2022
RNZ News Hundreds of anti-mandate protesters remained on the New Zealand Parliament lawn today as health officials reported a big increase in covid-19 cases nationally. But some have been driven away by the heavy rain and the gale force winds from the tailend of Cyclone Dovi lashing the capital Wellington. The Health Ministry reported that ... <a title="NZ protest at Parliament enters sixth day – covid cases almost double to 810" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/nz-protest-at-parliament-enters-sixth-day-covid-cases-almost-double-to-810/" aria-label="Read more about NZ protest at Parliament enters sixth day – covid cases almost double to 810">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2022
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva The United States insists it is a Pacific nation and has unveiled a raft of new strategies to better engage with other nations in the Region. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is the first Secretary of State to visit Fiji in nearly 37 years. During his ... <a title="US announces deeper engagement strategy to match China in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/us-announces-deeper-engagement-strategy-to-match-china-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about US announces deeper engagement strategy to match China in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has warned that although people have a right to protest when “they threaten, harass and disrupt people and a whole city they lose that right”. In a post on Facebook, Robertson — who is also Finance Minister and MP for Central Wellington where the five-day-old Parliament ... <a title="Right to protest lost for those who ‘threaten, harass and disrupt’, warns deputy PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/right-to-protest-lost-for-those-who-threaten-harass-and-disrupt-warns-deputy-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Right to protest lost for those who ‘threaten, harass and disrupt’, warns deputy PM">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2022
RNZ Pacific Strengthening democracy and rolling back corruption in the Pacific must be front of mind for Pacific leaders meeting with the US Secretary of State today. Transparency International says the Pacific is facing a number of existential threats, so good governance is critical to open up opportunities for prosperity. The watchdog group says governments ... <a title="Transparency watchdog seeks US help to tackle Pacific corruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/transparency-watchdog-seeks-us-help-to-tackle-pacific-corruption/" aria-label="Read more about Transparency watchdog seeks US help to tackle Pacific corruption">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A number of national figures in Indonesia have criticised the project to move the state capital (IKN) from Jakarta to East Kalimantan as envisaged by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, reports CNN Indonesia. Among the figures who have loudly criticised the project are economist Dr Faisal Basri and former Vice-President Jusuf Kalla. ... <a title="Critics slam Indonesian green capital move – ‘heaven surrounded by hell’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/critics-slam-indonesian-green-capital-move-heaven-surrounded-by-hell/" aria-label="Read more about Critics slam Indonesian green capital move – ‘heaven surrounded by hell’">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s prerecorded speech marking the historic 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Māori chiefs and the colonial government made from the treaty grounds. Video: RNZ News RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has used her Waitangi Day speech to call for New Zealand’s people to come together and overcome the challenges facing the ... <a title="‘With togetherness, we overcome,’ says NZ’s Ardern on Waitangi Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/with-togetherness-we-overcome-says-nzs-ardern-on-waitangi-day/" aria-label="Read more about ‘With togetherness, we overcome,’ says NZ’s Ardern on Waitangi Day">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne; Alexandra Wake, RMIT University, and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University News Corp Australia and Google have announced the creation of the Digital News Academy in partnership with the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne. It will provide digital skills training for News Corp journalists and other ... <a title="Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business School" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/journalism-academics-question-news-corps-deal-with-google-and-melbourne-business-school/" aria-label="Read more about Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business School">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
RNZ Pacific France’s highest court has upheld a corruption conviction of French Polynesia’s former president Gaston Flosse, effectively ending his political career. It confirmed a 2020 appeal court ruling in Tahiti, which had deprived Flosse of his eligibility to hold public office for five years after finding him and the current president Edouard Fritch guilty ... <a title="Tahiti’s Flosse banned from public office after latest court defeat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/tahitis-flosse-banned-from-public-office-after-latest-court-defeat/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s Flosse banned from public office after latest court defeat">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) plans to open a government branch office in the neighbouring Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby along with diplomacy offices to be based in Europe and the United Kingdom. In a New Year message from interim president Benny Wenda, he has confirmed ... <a title="West Papuans to open branch office in Port Moresby, Wenda confirms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/12/west-papuans-to-open-branch-office-in-port-moresby-wenda-confirms/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuans to open branch office in Port Moresby, Wenda confirms">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2022
RNZ Pacific A New Caledonian member of the French National Assembly says a consensus needs to be found on Kanaky New Caledonia’s future statute after last month’s referendum saw a third rejection of independence from France. The vote formally concluded the decolonisation process provided under the 1998 Noumea Accord. Philippe Gomes, a former New Caledonian ... <a title="Gomes calls for ‘consensus’ in charting Kanaky New Caledonia’s future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/11/gomes-calls-for-consensus-in-charting-kanaky-new-caledonias-future/" aria-label="Read more about Gomes calls for ‘consensus’ in charting Kanaky New Caledonia’s future">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2022
SPECIAL REPORT: By Joyce McClure in Guam I spent five years as the lone journalist on the remote Pacific island of Yap. During that time I was harassed, spat at, threatened with assassination and warned that I was being followed. The tyres on my car were slashed late one night. There was also pressure on ... <a title="Pacific media dangers: ‘I had death threats and my tyres slashed for my reporting’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/11/pacific-media-dangers-i-had-death-threats-and-my-tyres-slashed-for-my-reporting/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific media dangers: ‘I had death threats and my tyres slashed for my reporting’">Read more</a>
