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March 25, 2023
The Fijian Drua will need to start and finish well, while Moana Pasifika’s coach wants to see a full 80-minute performance this weekend as the two regional teams continue their Super Rugby Pacific campaigns. The Drua tackle the Highlanders in Dunedin today and Pasifika face the Hurricanes at Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, later on in ... <a title="Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika looking for 80min performances" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/25/fijian-drua-and-moana-pasifika-looking-for-80min-performances/" aria-label="Read more about Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika looking for 80min performances">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2023
By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby A number of small contractors in Papua New Guinea are still waiting for positive feedback for money owed to them by government agencies after 12 years. A 2015 Post-Courier front page picture showed a man, David Goli, who chained himself at the then headquarters of the Education Department at ... <a title="PNG contractors plead for government to pay up after 12-year wait" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/25/png-contractors-plead-for-government-to-pay-up-after-12-year-wait/" aria-label="Read more about PNG contractors plead for government to pay up after 12-year wait">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2023
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva Communications Fiji Ltd (CFL) chair William Parkinson has called for a repeal of Fiji’s Media Industry Development Act 2010 and more discussion on the proposed Media Ownership and Registration Bill 2023. He said this during a public consultation on the review of MIDA Act 2010 at Suvavou House yesterday where ... <a title="Repeal Fiji’s media law and start with ‘clean slate’, says CFL chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/24/repeal-fijis-media-law-and-start-with-clean-slate-says-cfl-chief/" aria-label="Read more about Repeal Fiji’s media law and start with ‘clean slate’, says CFL chief">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2023
By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva Former attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has told The Fiji Times to ask the Republic of Fiji Military Forces about claims that his bodyguards were allowed to take guns on to Fiji Link flights without proper authorisation. “I understand that there’s some enquiries going on regarding that so I don’t know whether ... <a title="Ask Fiji military about ‘guns on plane’ claims, says Sayed-Khaiyum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/24/ask-fiji-military-about-guns-on-plane-claims-says-sayed-khaiyum/" aria-label="Read more about Ask Fiji military about ‘guns on plane’ claims, says Sayed-Khaiyum">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2023
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu’s Minister of Climate Change warns “there’s going to be a lot of hardship” for people waiting for their crops to grow back as dry rations are distributed to communities. Minister Ralph Regenvanu said the main food push started in the middle of last week, with only a small ... <a title="Vanuatu minister says harvests will take time to recover after cyclones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/23/vanuatu-minister-says-harvests-will-take-time-to-recover-after-cyclones/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu minister says harvests will take time to recover after cyclones">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2023
Monday’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has given a “final warning” to avert global catastrophe. Pacific cabinet ministers call on all world leaders to urgently transition to renewables. COMMENT: By Ralph Regenvanu and Seve Paeniu The cycle is repeating itself. A tropical cyclone of frightening strength strikes a Pacific island nation, and leaves ... <a title="As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/23/as-pacific-islanders-we-bear-the-brunt-of-the-climate-crisis-the-time-to-end-fossil-fuel-dependence-is-now/" aria-label="Read more about As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2023
A Pacific elder and former secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum says Pacific leaders need to sit up and pay closer attention to AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific strategy and China’s response to them. Speaking from Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, Dame Meg Taylor said Pacific leaders were being sidelined in major geopolitical decisions affecting ... <a title="Pacific needs to sit up and pay close attention to AUKUS, says Dame Meg Taylor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/pacific-needs-to-sit-up-and-pay-close-attention-to-aukus-says-dame-meg-taylor/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific needs to sit up and pay close attention to AUKUS, says Dame Meg Taylor">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Bevin Veale, Massey University The impending arrival of Kelly-Jean Keen-Minshull — aka Posie Parker — has put the spotlight on the tension between free speech and protecting vulnerable communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. In particular, it raises questions about Immigration New Zealand’s role in limiting who can visit and speak in the country. ... <a title="Does public safety trump free speech? History’s case for banning anti-trans activist Posie Parker from NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/does-public-safety-trump-free-speech-historys-case-for-banning-anti-trans-activist-posie-parker-from-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Does public safety trump free speech? History’s case for banning anti-trans activist Posie Parker from NZ">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2023
The Fiji Times “The University of the South Pacific (USP) has been and continues to be a bedrock for regionalism. A resource owned by the region; for the region and a precious institution that needs to be protected in line with the vision of our forebearers.” This was the message by USP vice-chancellor and president ... <a title="USP still the ‘bedrock’ for Pacific regionalism, says university chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/usp-still-the-bedrock-for-pacific-regionalism-says-university-chief/" aria-label="Read more about USP still the ‘bedrock’ for Pacific regionalism, says university chief">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2023
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby A Papua New Guinean family who have been renting a property from the National Housing Corporation for the past 46 years have been served with a 24-hour eviction notice by a different owner who had obtained an eviction notice from the Port Moresby District Court. Yasling Akianang is a ... <a title="PNG family kicked out of their home after 46 years – with 24-hour notice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/png-family-kicked-out-of-their-home-after-46-years-with-24-hour-notice/" aria-label="Read more about PNG family kicked out of their home after 46 years – with 24-hour notice">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist There is “is much to win by trying” to take action on climate change — that is a key finding in a major new international climate report the UN chief is calling a “survival guide for humanity”. It is something of a mic drop moment for the army ... <a title="Some Pacific nations ‘won’t survive’ if NZ and world drop the climate ball" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/some-pacific-nations-wont-survive-if-nz-and-world-drop-the-climate-ball/" aria-label="Read more about Some Pacific nations ‘won’t survive’ if NZ and world drop the climate ball">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has called on the international community to “pay serious attention” to the escalated violence happening in West Papua. Head of ULMWP’s legal and human rights bureau, Daniel Randongkir, said that since the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) — a separate movement — ... <a title="Papuan liberation group calls for more ‘serious’ global efforts to end violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/papuan-liberation-group-calls-for-more-serious-global-efforts-to-end-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan liberation group calls for more ‘serious’ global efforts to end violence">Read more</a>