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May 29, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell When I despairingly contemplate the horrors and cruelty that Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to, I sometimes try to put this in the context of where I live. I live on the Kāpiti Coast in the lower North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Geographically it is around the same size ... <a title="Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/why-nz-must-act-against-israels-ethnic-cleansing-and-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa has advised Samoa’s head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can move to an election. This follows the bill for the budget not getting enough support for a first reading on yesterday, and Fiame announcing she would therefore seek an early election. ... <a title="Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/samoan-pm-fiame-advises-dissolution-of-parliament-calls-for-snap-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2025
By Stanley Simpson in Suva I am saddened by the death of one of the most inspirational Pacific women and leaders I have worked with — Motarilavoa Hilda Lini of Vanuatu. She was one of the strongest, most committed passionate fighter I know for self-determination, decolonisation, independence, indigenous rights, customary systems and a nuclear-free Pacific. ... <a title="Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/27/motarilavoa-hilda-lini-strong-passionate-fighter-for-decolonisation-nuclear-free-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie was honoured with Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) at the weekend by the Governor-General, Dame Cindy Kiro, in an investiture ceremony at Government House Tāmaki Makaurau. He was one of eight recipients for various honours, which included Joycelyn Armstrong, who was presented ... <a title="Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/asia-pacific-report-editor-honoured-for-contribution-to-pacific-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
RNZ Pacific Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, a pioneering Ni-Vanuatu politician, has died. Lini passed away at the Port Vila General Hospital on Sunday, according to local news media. Lini was the first woman to be elected to the Vanuatu Parliament in 1987 as a member of the National United Party. Motarilavoa Hilda Lini in 1989 . ... <a title="Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, has died" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/motarilavoa-hilda-lini-a-trailblazer-for-vanuatu-women-in-politics-has-died/" aria-label="Read more about Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, has died">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji lawyer Nazhat Shameem Khan has been elevated to the top prosecutorial position at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The Office of the Prosecutor at ICC has announced that deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang have taken over leadership following chief prosecutor Karim AA ... <a title="Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at ICC" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/fiji-lawyer-nazhat-khan-takes-up-acting-top-prosecution-role-at-icc/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at ICC">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Protesting New Zealanders donned symbolic masks modelled on a Palestinian artist’s handiwork in Auckland’s Takutai Square today to condemn Israel’s starvation as war weapon against Gaza and the NZ prime minister’s weak response. Coming a day after the tabling of Budget 2025 in Parliament, peaceful demonstrators wore hand-painted masks inspired by Gaza-based ... <a title="‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/starving-masked-palestine-protesters-condemn-luxons-gaza-appeasement/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Air New Zealand has announced it plans to resume its Auckland-Nouméa flights from November, almost one and a half years after deadly civil unrest broke out in the French Pacific territory. “Air New Zealand is resuming its Auckland-Nouméa service starting 1 November 2025. Initially, flights will ... <a title="Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/air-new-zealand-to-resume-auckland-noumea-flights-from-november/" aria-label="Read more about Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
We have been handed a long and protracted recession with few signs of growth and prosperity. Budget 2025 signals more of the same, writes Susan St John. ANALYSIS: By Susan St John With the coalition government’s second Budget being unveiled, we should question where New Zealand is heading. The 2024 Budget laid out the strategy. ... <a title="Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/govt-should-defuse-nzs-social-timebomb-but-wont/" aria-label="Read more about Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Auckland University law academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged should be repealed. Lagi Keresoma, the first female president of the Journalists Association of Samoa (JAWS) and editor of Talamua Online, was charged under the Crimes Act 2013 on Sunday ... <a title="Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/legal-academic-says-samoas-criminal-libel-law-should-go-after-charge/" aria-label="Read more about Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A West Papua independence leader says escalating violence is forcing indigenous Papuans to flee their ancestral lands. It comes as the Indonesian military claims 18 members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) were killed in an hour-long operation in Intan Jaya on May 14. In a statement, ... <a title="Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/indonesian-military-operations-spark-concerns-over-displaced-indigenous-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has released a statement saying “the Israeli government cannot allow the suffering to continue” after the UN’s aid chief said thousands of babies were at risk of dying if they did not receive food immediately. “Australia joins international partners in calling on Israel to allow a full ... <a title="Australia’s Wong condemns ‘abhorrent, outrageous’ Israeli comments over blocked aid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/australias-wong-condemns-abhorrent-outrageous-israeli-comments-over-blocked-aid/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s Wong condemns ‘abhorrent, outrageous’ Israeli comments over blocked aid">Read more</a>
