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September 13, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News West Papuan independence advocate Octo Mote is in Aotearoa New Zealand to win support for independence for West Papua, which has been ruled by Indonesia for more than 60 years. Mote is vice-president of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) and is ... <a title="West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/13/west-papuan-independence-advocate-seeks-nz-support-against-genocide-ecocide/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Two open letters on the genocidal Israeli war against Palestinian sent to The Press for publication that have been ignored in the continued Aotearoa New Zealand media silence over 11 months of atrocities. Both letters have been sent to the Christchurch morning daily newspaper by the co-presenter of the Plains FM radio ... <a title="Open letters on Gaza that The Press shunned – the Handala protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/12/open-letters-on-gaza-that-the-press-shunned-the-handala-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Open letters on Gaza that The Press shunned – the Handala protest">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2024
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has successfully thwarted a vote of no confidence after 75 MPs backed him and 32 voted for the opposition. But the session was not without drama. Just after 10am, after the opposition leader moved a motion for a vote of no ... <a title="PNG’s Marape remains PM after no confidence vote against him fails" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/12/pngs-marape-remains-pm-after-no-confidence-vote-against-him-fails/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape remains PM after no confidence vote against him fails">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Victorian Greens have demanded an independent inquiry into Australian police tactics and alleged excessive use of force today against antiwar protesters at the Land Forces expo in Melbourne. State Greens leader Ellen Sandell said her party had lodged a formal protest to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC). “We have seen ... <a title="Greens accuse Australian police of ‘excessive force’ against anti-war protesters at arms expo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/12/greens-accuse-australian-police-of-excessive-force-against-anti-war-protesters-at-arms-expo/" aria-label="Read more about Greens accuse Australian police of ‘excessive force’ against anti-war protesters at arms expo">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2024
With similar Israel divestment motions having been passed at City of Sydney and Canterbury/Bankstown Councils, many had expected the motion to pass in what is supposed to be one of the most progressive areas of Sydney. Wendy Bacon reports on what went wrong. INVESTIGATION: By Wendy Bacon Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the West ... <a title="Rightwing astroturfers infiltrate Australian local councils, fire up unrest over Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/11/rightwing-astroturfers-infiltrate-australian-local-councils-fire-up-unrest-over-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Rightwing astroturfers infiltrate Australian local councils, fire up unrest over Israel">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s domestic carrier Air Calédonie is set to launch a biweekly international connection to neighbouring Vanuatu. The new link is set to start operating from October 3 with two return flights, one on Mondays and the other on Thursdays. The company said this followed a ... <a title="New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/11/new-caledonia-crisis-unrest-hit-air-caledonie-in-search-of-new-markets/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist The Fiji government is backing the appointment of the country’s new anti-corruption chief who was under investigation by the office she now heads, which has left Fijians asking questions. Barbara Malimali — who was also the Electoral Commission chairperson — was revealed as the new Fiji Independent Commission Against ... <a title="‘Numerous questions’, but Fiji govt sticks with new anti-corruption chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/09/numerous-questions-but-fiji-govt-sticks-with-new-anti-corruption-chief/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Numerous questions’, but Fiji govt sticks with new anti-corruption chief">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2024
OPEN LETTER: Our Action Station Dear TVNZ, We are deeply concerned with the misleading nature of the journalism presented in your recent coverage of the escalating crisis in Gaza and the West Bank. By focusing on specific language and framing, while leaving out the necessary context of international law, the broadcast misrepresents the reality of ... <a title="Open letter to TVNZ – stop the bias, report fairly on the Israeli war on Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/08/open-letter-to-tvnz-stop-the-bias-report-fairly-on-the-israeli-war-on-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to TVNZ – stop the bias, report fairly on the Israeli war on Palestine">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Brittany Nawaqatabu in Suva Regional leaders will gather later this month in Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Tonga and high on the agenda will be Japan’s dumping oftreated nuclear wastewater in the Pacific Ocean. A week ago on the 6 August 2024, the 79th anniversary of the atomic ... <a title="Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/16/browns-backflip-over-japanese-nuclear-wastewater-dump-poses-challenge-for-forum/" aria-label="Read more about Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2024
By Matilda Yates, Queensland University of Technology “From a white perspective it is journalism but for us, it is actually storytelling,” says Fiji student journalist Viliame Tawanakoro. “In the Pacific, we call it talanoa, it hasn’t changed the gist of journalism, but it has actually helped journalism as a whole because we have a way ... <a title="Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/16/fijian-journalists-use-talanoa-and-tradition-to-find-their-voice/" aria-label="Read more about Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Environmental destruction is not an unintended side effect, but a primary objective in colonial wars of occupation. By David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders Many in the international community are finally coming to accept that the earth’s ecosystem can no longer bear the weight of military occupation. Most have reached this inevitable conclusion, clearly articulated in the ... <a title="From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/from-papua-to-gaza-military-occupation-leads-to-ecocide-climate-catastrophe/" aria-label="Read more about From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Israel’s zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook in Middle East Eye There should be nothing surprising about the revelation that troops at Sde Teiman, a detention camp set up by Israel in the wake of Hamas’s October ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will it take down with it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/jonathan-cook-israel-is-in-a-death-spiral-who-will-it-take-down-with-it/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will it take down with it?">Read more</a>
