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July 17, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in an attempt to stop the environmental organisation’s protest against nuclear testing at Moruroa Atoll in Mā’ohi Nui. People gathered on board Rainbow Warrior III to remember photographer Fernando Pereira, ... <a title="Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/rainbow-warrior-bombing-by-french-secret-agents-remembered-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on">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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July 3, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Immediately after killing Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents went on a ski holiday in New Zealand’s South Island to celebrate. Such was the contempt the French had for the Kiwis and the abilities of our police to pursue ... <a title="The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end of innocence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/03/the-rainbow-warrior-saga-1-french-state-terrorism-and-nzs-end-of-innocence/" aria-label="Read more about The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end of innocence">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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March 20, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Today I attended a demonstration outside both Aotearoa New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in Wellington. The day before, the Israelis had blown apart 174 children in Gaza in a surprise attack that announced the next phase of the genocide. About 174 Wellingtonians turned up ... <a title="‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/declare-your-city-genocide-free-lessons-from-nzs-nuclear-free-movement/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2024
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Over 30 years the French government tested 193 nuclear weapons in Māohi Nui and today Indigenous peoples still suffer the impacts through intergenerational cancers. In 1975, France stopped atmospheric tests and moved to underground testing. Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross was eight years old when the French nuclear tests ... <a title="Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and limited compensation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/07/maohi-nui-campaigner-tackles-french-nuclear-test-legacy-cancer-and-limited-compensation/" aria-label="Read more about Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and limited compensation">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG), has produced fresh insights into the legacy of Pacific nuclear-free and anti-colonialism activism. The community storytelling group Talanoa ... <a title="Legends of NFIP: Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/legends-of-nfip-former-fang-president-vijay-naidu-talks-pacific-anti-nuclear-activism/" aria-label="Read more about Legends of NFIP: Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2023
By Asenaca Uluiviti and Sadhana Sen Fiji recently lost Dr Meraia Taufa Vakatale, a monumental woman leader who broke many glass ceilings with her numerous firsts. As an educationalist, diplomat and politician, she profoundly impacted on the lives of tens of thousands in Fiji and the Pacific region, particularly young women in politics and anti-nuclear ... <a title="Obituary: Meraia Taufa Vakatale – Fiji anti-nuclear activist and feminist trailblazer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/29/obituary-meraia-taufa-vakatale-fiji-anti-nuclear-activist-and-feminist-trailblazer/" aria-label="Read more about Obituary: Meraia Taufa Vakatale – Fiji anti-nuclear activist and feminist trailblazer">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2023
By Asenaca Uluiviti and Sadhana Sen Fiji recently lost Dr Meraia Taufa Vakatale, a monumental woman leader who broke many glass ceilings with her numerous firsts. As an educationalist, diplomat and politician, she profoundly impacted on the lives of tens of thousands in Fiji and the Pacific region, particularly young women in politics and anti-nuclear ... <a title="Obituary: Meraia Taufa Vakatale – anti-nuclear activist and feminist trailblazer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/22/obituary-meraia-taufa-vakatale-anti-nuclear-activist-and-feminist-trailblazer/" aria-label="Read more about Obituary: Meraia Taufa Vakatale – anti-nuclear activist and feminist trailblazer">Read more</a>
