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January 29, 2026
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – BookHero Review Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, by David Robie, isn’t only a gripping tale of adventure and tragedy but also a testament to the enduring spirit of environmental activism. It serves as an important reminder of the power ... <a title="Eyes of Fire: Gripping tale of adventure, tragedy and testament to environmental activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/eyes-of-fire-gripping-tale-of-adventure-tragedy-and-testament-to-environmental-activism/" aria-label="Read more about Eyes of Fire: Gripping tale of adventure, tragedy and testament to environmental activism">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Greenpeace Join us for this guided “virtual tour” around the Rainbow Warrior III in Auckland Harbour on the afternoon of 10 July 2025 — the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original flagship. The Rainbow Warrior is a special vessel — it’s one of three present-day Greenpeace ships. The Rainbow Warrior works on the ... <a title="Author David Robie joins Greenpeace virtual tour of Rainbow Warrior" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/author-david-robie-joins-greenpeace-virtual-tour-of-rainbow-warrior/" aria-label="Read more about Author David Robie joins Greenpeace virtual tour of Rainbow Warrior">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985 — less than two months before the bombing. Image: ©1985 David Robie/Eyes of Fire He accused the coalition government of being “too timid” and “afraid of offending President Donald Trump” to make a stand on the ... <a title="David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/david-robie-new-zealand-must-do-more-for-pacific-and-confront-nuclear-powers/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for its “callous” attack of an environmental ship, saying “we haven’t forgotten, or forgiven this outrage”. David Robie, the author of Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the ... <a title="David Robie condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/14/david-robie-condemns-callous-health-legacy-of-french-us-nuclear-bomb-tests-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population of 320 from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. After conducting dozens of above-ground nuclear explosions, the US government had left the ... <a title="The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/07/the-rainbow-warrior-saga-part-2-nuclear-refugees-in-the-pacific-the-evacuation-of-rongelap/" aria-label="Read more about The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of its independent foreign policy in the face of gathering global storm clouds. Writing in a new book being published next week, she says “nuclear war is an existential threat to ... <a title="Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/30/clark-warns-in-new-pacific-book-renewed-nuclear-tensions-pose-existential-threat-to-humanity/" aria-label="Read more about Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – A forthcoming new edition of David Robie’s Eyes of Fire honours the ship’s final mission and the resilience of those affected by decades of radioactive fallout. PACIFIC MORNINGS: By Aui’a Vaimaila Leatinu’u The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior III ship returns to Aotearoa this July, 40 years ... <a title="40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against nuclear colonialism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/40-years-on-reflecting-on-rainbow-warriors-legacy-fight-against-nuclear-colonialism/" aria-label="Read more about 40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against nuclear colonialism">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace We’ve visited Ground Zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations, before these locations were designated as such, they were the ancestral home to the people of the Marshall Islands. As part of a team of Greenpeace scientists and specialists from the Radiation Protection Advisers team, we ... <a title="Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace nuclear campaigner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/10/tracing-radiation-through-the-marshall-islands-reflections-from-a-veteran-greenpeace-nuclear-campaigner/" aria-label="Read more about Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace nuclear campaigner">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2024
Professor David Robie is among this year’s New Zealand Order of Merit awardees and was on the King’s Birthday Honours list earlier this month for his “services to journalism and Asia-Pacific media education.” His career in journalism has spanned five decades. He was the founding editor of the Pacific Journalism Review journal in 1994 and ... <a title="Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/29/decolonisation-the-climate-crisis-and-improving-media-education-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf. Two French secret agents planted two limpet mines on the ship while it was berthed at Marsden wharf. The second explosion killed Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira when he got trapped on board while retrieving his cameras. ... <a title="Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/case-017-rnz-podcast-the-bombing-of-the-rainbow-warrior/" aria-label="Read more about Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
From RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan New Zealand established its credentials as an independent small nation after the fatal bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985, says an author and academic who spent weeks on the vessel shortly before it was attacked. On 10 July 1985, the Rainbow Warrior was sunk at an ... <a title="NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing, says author" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/nz-gained-international-creds-as-nuclear-free-nation-with-rainbow-warrior-bombing-says-author/" aria-label="Read more about NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing, says author">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2018
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