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May 4, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has paid tribute to all those working the media industry in his message to mark World Press Freedom Day. He said in his May 3 message thanks to democracy his coalition government had removed the “dark days of oppression and suppressions”. “Today as we join ... <a title="Rabuka salutes Fiji media but warns against taking freedom for granted" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/04/rabuka-salutes-fiji-media-but-warns-against-taking-freedom-for-granted/" aria-label="Read more about Rabuka salutes Fiji media but warns against taking freedom for granted">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2025
Asia Pacific Report About 1000 pro-Palestinian protesters marked World Press Freedom Day — May 3 — today by marching on the public broadcaster Television New Zealand in Auckland, accusing it of 18 months of “biased coverage” on the genocidal Israeli war against Gaza. They delivered a letter to the management board of TVNZ from Palestine ... <a title="Palestine protesters march on TVNZ, accuse broadcaster of bias on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/04/palestine-protesters-march-on-tvnz-accuse-broadcaster-of-bias-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters march on TVNZ, accuse broadcaster of bias on Gaza">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A human rights agency has called for an investigation into the drone attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid ship Conscience with Israel suspected of being responsible. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement that the deliberate targeting of a civilian aid ship in international waters was a “flagrant violation” ... <a title="Human rights group calls for probe into attack on Freedom Flotilla ship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/03/human-rights-group-calls-for-probe-into-attack-on-freedom-flotilla-ship/" aria-label="Read more about Human rights group calls for probe into attack on Freedom Flotilla ship">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2025
Pacific Media Watch After a year and a half of war, nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the Israeli army — including at least 43 slain on the job. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has brought multiple complaints before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and continues to tirelessly support Gazan journalists, working to halt ... <a title="RSF condemns Israeli targeting of Gaza journalists – then slandering them in death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/03/rsf-condemns-israeli-targeting-of-gaza-journalists-then-slandering-them-in-death/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Israeli targeting of Gaza journalists – then slandering them in death">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings at The Hague this week into Israel blocking vital supplies entering Gaza. The ICJ’s ongoing investigation into Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave is ... <a title="New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case over Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/new-zealand-condemned-for-failing-to-make-icj-humanitarian-case-over-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case over Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Teals and Greens are under political attack from a new pro-fossil fuel, pro-Israel astroturfing group, adding to the onslaught by far-right lobbyists Advance Australia for Australian federal election tomorrow — World Press Freedom Day. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon investigate. SPECIAL REPORT: By Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon On February 12 this year, former prime ... <a title="Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals and Greens for Australian election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/dark-money-labor-and-liberal-join-forces-in-attacks-on-teals-and-greens-for-australian-election/" aria-label="Read more about Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals and Greens for Australian election">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2025
By Ruth Hill, RNZ News reporter Striking senior New Zealand doctors have hit back at the Health Minister’s attack on their union for “forcing” patients to wait longer for surgery and appointments, due to their 24-hour industrial action. Respiratory and sleep physician Dr Andrew Davies, who was on the picketline outside Wellington Regional Hospital, said ... <a title="NZ doctors defend nationwide strike action over recruitment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/nz-doctors-defend-nationwide-strike-action-over-recruitment/" aria-label="Read more about NZ doctors defend nationwide strike action over recruitment">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Thousands of senior hospital doctors and specialists walked off the job today for an unprecedented 24-hour strike in protest over stalled contract negotiations and thousands of other health workers protested across Aotearoa New Zealand against the coalition government’s cutbacks to the public health service Te Whatu Ora. In spite of the disruptive ... <a title="Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/gallery-doctors-health-workers-challenge-nz-government-over-national-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – SPECIAL REPORT: By Michelle Fahy The Australian counter-drone weapons system seen at a weapons demonstration in Israel recently is actually just one of a few that were sold by the Canberra-based company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) and sent through its wholly-owned US subsidiary to Israel, Declassified ... <a title="Confirmed: Australian weapons sold to Israel, reveals Declassified Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/confirmed-australian-weapons-sold-to-israel-reveals-declassified-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Confirmed: Australian weapons sold to Israel, reveals Declassified Australia">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Wake Despite all the political machinations and hate towards the media coming from the president of the United States, I always thought the majority of Australian politicians supported the role of the press in safeguarding democracy. And I certainly did not expect Peter Dutton — amid an election campaign, one with citizens ... <a title="Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/amid-duttons-hate-media-and-trumps-despotism-press-freedom-is-more-vital-than-ever/" aria-label="Read more about Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Broadcasting Standards Authority New Zealand’s Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has upheld complaints about two 1News reports relating to violence around a football match in Amsterdam between local team Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv. The authority found an item on “antisemitic violence” surrounding the match, and another on heightened security in Paris the following week, ... <a title="Inaccurate 1News reporting on football violence breached broadcasting standards, rules BSA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/inaccurate-1news-reporting-on-football-violence-breached-broadcasting-standards-rules-bsa/" aria-label="Read more about Inaccurate 1News reporting on football violence breached broadcasting standards, rules BSA">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small, but important, step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed, writes Dr Ilan Pappé ANALYSIS: By Ilan Pappé Responses in the Western world to the genocide ... <a title="On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s silence on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/on-moral-panic-and-the-courage-to-speak-the-wests-silence-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s silence on Gaza">Read more</a>
