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October 29, 2025
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A Marshall Islands lawmaker has called on Pacific legislatures to establish and strengthen their national human rights commissions to help address the region’s nuclear testing legacy. “Our people in the Marshall Islands carry voices of our lives that are shaped by this nuclear legacy,” ... <a title="Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/pacific-lawmakers-call-for-creation-of-human-rights-commissions-to-fight-nuclear-testing-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
RNZ Pacific Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has confirmed that his Finance Minister — and one of three deputies — has resigned after being charged by the country’s anti-corruption watchdog. Local media first reported that Professor Biman Prasad, the man in charge of government finances, had been charged with corruption-related offences under Fiji’s political party ... <a title="‘Political chaos’ – Fiji PM Rabuka confirms Biman Prasad’s resignation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/political-chaos-fiji-pm-rabuka-confirms-biman-prasads-resignation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Political chaos’ – Fiji PM Rabuka confirms Biman Prasad’s resignation">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor It was hardly a dream debut for Labour’s long-awaited, much-argued-over tax package for Aotearoa New Zealand. What was meant to be a carefully choreographed reveal of a capital gains tax (CGT) later this week instead arrived early — leaked to RNZ over the long weekend and ... <a title="Labour’s capital gains NZ tax gamble – from leak to launch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/labours-capital-gains-nz-tax-gamble-from-leak-to-launch/" aria-label="Read more about Labour’s capital gains NZ tax gamble – from leak to launch">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin When the Pacific Islands Forum concluded in Honiara last month, leaders pledged regional unity under the motto “Iumi Tugeda” — “We are Together”. Eighteen Pacific heads of government reached agreements on climate resilience and nuclear-free oceans. They signed the Pacific Resilience Facility treaty and endorsed Australia’s proposal to jointly host the ... <a title="Blue Pacific’s unfinished business – West Papua and regional integrity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/blue-pacifics-unfinished-business-west-papua-and-regional-integrity/" aria-label="Read more about Blue Pacific’s unfinished business – West Papua and regional integrity">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Stanley Simpson, director of Mai TV You can wake up one morning in Fiji and feel like you’re living in a totally different country. Overnight we have lost two of our three Deputy Prime Ministers — by many accounts these were the two who were perhaps among the most influential and pivotal in ... <a title="Dark political clouds forming in Fiji – expect more lightning strikes after two DPMs charged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/dark-political-clouds-forming-in-fiji-expect-more-lightning-strikes-after-two-dpms-charged/" aria-label="Read more about Dark political clouds forming in Fiji – expect more lightning strikes after two DPMs charged">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2025
MEDIAWATCH: By RNZ Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock Successive New Zealand governments have dodged the issue of how the news media should be held to account, leaving us with outdated and fragmented systems for standards and complaints. But the issue erupted recently when the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) advised The Platform it could consider public complaints ... <a title="Mediawatch: Talley’s vs TVNZ in defamation confrontation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/mediawatch-talleys-vs-tvnz-in-defamation-confrontation/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Talley’s vs TVNZ in defamation confrontation">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2025
The New Arab A Palestinian horror film inspired by folklore is moving forward, with journalist and author Plestia Alaqad joining the cast alongside American-born Kuwaiti-Palestinian journalist and media personality Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled The Visitor, the feature is written and directed by Palestinian-American filmmaker Rolla Selbak and produced by Black Poppy ... <a title="Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/26/gazas-plestia-alaqad-to-star-in-palestinian-horror-film-the-visitor/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf on We Used To Be Journos to unpack his time in Australia, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media. The pair also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about — how Western journalists are betraying their colleagues ... <a title="Hedges slams hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club and Western media betraying Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/26/hedges-slams-hostile-australian-interview-unpacks-press-club-and-western-media-betraying-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Hedges slams hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club and Western media betraying Gaza">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Māori and Pasifika leaders are leading climate adaptation, guided by ancestral knowledge and Indigenous principles to build resilience and shape global solutions. Last week, they played a key role in launching a new Indigenous climate adaptation network at a wānanga ahead of Adaptation Futures ... <a title="‘Oceania voices’ – Indigenous climate adaptation network launches in Ōtautahi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/25/oceania-voices-indigenous-climate-adaptation-network-launches-in-otautahi/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Oceania voices’ – Indigenous climate adaptation network launches in Ōtautahi">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine solidarity and advocacy group in New Zealand has accused an Israeli cabinet minister of “sneaking” into the country this weekend while on a Pacific tour asIsrael resumed its genocidal attacks. Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskell visited the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Fiji — where she welcomed a possible ... <a title="PSNA slams Israeli politician over ‘sneaking into NZ’ during Pacific friendship trip" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/24/psna-slams-israeli-politician-over-sneaking-into-nz-during-pacific-friendship-trip/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA slams Israeli politician over ‘sneaking into NZ’ during Pacific friendship trip">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2025
Returning to Aotearoa after half a year in the occupied West Bank, Cole Martin says a peace deal that fails to address the root causes — and ignores the brutal reality of life for Palestinians — is no peace deal at all. A ceasefire in Gaza last week brought scenes reminiscent of January’s brief pause ... <a title="Cole Martin: The Gaza ceasefire isn’t the end – what six months in Palestine showed me" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/24/cole-martin-the-gaza-ceasefire-isnt-the-end-what-six-months-in-palestine-showed-me/" aria-label="Read more about Cole Martin: The Gaza ceasefire isn’t the end – what six months in Palestine showed me">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2025
RNZ News Thousands have marched through major city streets and rallied in small towns across Aotearoa New Zealand as part of today’s “mega strike” of public workers. More than 100,000 workers from several sectors walked off the job in increasingly bitter disputes over pay and conditions. It was billed as possibly the country’s biggest labour ... <a title="Thousands march through streets as part of NZ’s ‘mega strike’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/23/thousands-march-through-streets-as-part-of-nzs-mega-strike/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands march through streets as part of NZ’s ‘mega strike’">Read more</a>
