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February 13, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Stuart Rees The violence surrounding protests against the visit of Israel’s president was not an accident of crowd control. It reflects a deeper political failure – where authority suppresses dissent rather than confronting uncomfortable truths about Gaza, protest rights and democratic responsibility. In official explanations of violence outside Sydney Town Hall on Monday ... <a title="Stuart Rees: Cowardice over Gaza dressed up as authority on Sydney’s streets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/13/stuart-rees-cowardice-over-gaza-dressed-up-as-authority-on-sydneys-streets/" aria-label="Read more about Stuart Rees: Cowardice over Gaza dressed up as authority on Sydney’s streets">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – By Agnese Boffano in London As Meta, TikTok, Instagram and X continue to dominate online social spaces, a new platform called UpScrolled has entered the scene. It is not built around dances or memes, but instead positions itself as a space promising fewer shadowbans and greater ... <a title="UpScrolled – the Australian pro-Palestine platform shaking up global social media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/upscrolled-the-australian-pro-palestine-platform-shaking-up-global-social-media/" aria-label="Read more about UpScrolled – the Australian pro-Palestine platform shaking up global social media">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
By Agnese Boffano in London As Meta, TikTok, Instagram and X continue to dominate online social spaces, a new platform called UpScrolled has entered the scene. It is not built around dances or memes, but instead positions itself as a space promising fewer shadowbans and greater freedom of political expression, particularly for pro-Palestinian voices. So, ... <a title="UpScrolled – the pro-Palestine platform shaking up social media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/upscrolled-the-pro-palestine-platform-shaking-up-social-media/" aria-label="Read more about UpScrolled – the pro-Palestine platform shaking up social media">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Paul Gregoire Australia’s two federal combating antisemitism bills, the New South Wales laws providing the means to shutdown street protests and move on stationary public assemblies, along with the envoy’s plan to combat antisemitism and the Royal Commission into the same prejudice, have all been set in place following two ISIS-fuelled killers murdering ... <a title="Federal government’s crackdown on free speech affects all Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/23/federal-governments-crackdown-on-free-speech-affects-all-australians/" aria-label="Read more about Federal government’s crackdown on free speech affects all Australians">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2025
By Gordon Campbell The calls by the Israel Institute of New Zealand for Peter Davis to resign from the Helen Clark Foundation because of comments he made with regard to an ugly, hateful piece of graffiti are absurd. The graffiti in question said “I hated Jews before it was cool!” On social media, Davis made ... <a title="Absurd attack on free speech by Israel Institute over social media comment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/10/absurd-attack-on-free-speech-by-israel-institute-over-social-media-comment/" aria-label="Read more about Absurd attack on free speech by Israel Institute over social media comment">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2025
Now that Phil Goff has ended his term as New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the UK, he is officially free to speak his mind on the damage he believes the Trump Administration is doing to the world. He has started with these comments he made on the betrayal of Ukraine by the new Administration. By ... <a title="NZ’s refreshingly candid ex-envoy Phil Goff – why I spoke out on Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/04/nzs-refreshingly-candid-ex-envoy-phil-goff-why-i-spoke-out-on-trump/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s refreshingly candid ex-envoy Phil Goff – why I spoke out on Trump">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – A Palestinian-Australian man has been criminally charged for voicing criticisms of Zionism during a protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He could spend months in prison. The Age reports that restaurant owner Hash Tayeh has been charged with four counts of “using insulting words in public” ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Zionism is strangling free speech in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/09/caitlin-johnstone-zionism-is-strangling-free-speech-in-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Zionism is strangling free speech in Australia">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Markela Panegyres and Jonathan Strauss in Sydney The new Universities Australia (UA) definition of antisemitism, endorsed last month for adoption by 39 Australian universities, is an ugly attempt to quash the pro-Palestine solidarity movement on campuses and to silence academics, university workers and students who critique Israel and Zionism. While the Scott ... <a title="Australian university workers: ‘We will not be silenced over Palestine’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/06/australian-university-workers-we-will-not-be-silenced-over-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Australian university workers: ‘We will not be silenced over Palestine’">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An independent Jewish body has condemned the move by Australia’s 39 universities to endorse a “dangerous and politicised” definition of antisemitism which threatens academic freedom. The Jewish Council of Australia, a diverse coalition of Jewish academics, lawyers, writers and teachers, said in a statement that the move would have a “chilling effect” ... <a title="Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/jewish-council-slams-australian-universities-dangerous-politicised-antisemitism-definition/" aria-label="Read more about Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s civic space has been rated as “obstructed” by the Civicus Monitor and the country has been criticised for pushing forward with a controversial media law in spite of strong opposition. Among concerns previously documented by the civil rights watchdog are harassment and threats against human rights defenders, particularly those ... <a title="Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/civicus-monitor-criticises-png-use-of-cybercrime-law-to-curb-free-speech/" aria-label="Read more about Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free speech">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2024
The New Zealand government coalition is tweaking university regulations to curb what it says is an increasingly “risk-averse approach” to free speech. The proposed changes will set clear expectations on how universities should approach freedom of speech issues. Each university will then have to adopt a “freedom of speech statement” consistent with the central government’s ... <a title="NZ govt plans to make ‘heavy handed’ change to free speech rules for universities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/22/nz-govt-plans-to-make-heavy-handed-change-to-free-speech-rules-for-universities/" aria-label="Read more about NZ govt plans to make ‘heavy handed’ change to free speech rules for universities">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2024
RNZ Pacific The University of the South Pacific staff associations are up in arms about the sacking of a union leader and academic by the university’s chief executive. In a joint press release, the Association of the University of the South Pacific (AUSPS) and the USP Staff Union (USPSU), this week claimed that USP vice-chancellor ... <a title="‘Attack on freedom of speech’: USP staff call out Ahluwalia for sacking union president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/20/attack-on-freedom-of-speech-usp-staff-call-out-ahluwalia-for-sacking-union-president/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Attack on freedom of speech’: USP staff call out Ahluwalia for sacking union president">Read more</a>
