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April 30, 2023
RNZ Pacific An Anzac memorial service was held above the site in the South China Sea where a Japanese freighter — which had been carrying more than a 1000 prisoners — was sunk by an American submarine in 1942. The Montevideo Maru, carrying soldiers and civilians captured when Japan invaded Rabaul in Papua New Guinea ... <a title="Anzac ceremony to recall those who died on torpedoed Japanese freighter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/30/anzac-ceremony-to-recall-those-who-died-on-torpedoed-japanese-freighter/" aria-label="Read more about Anzac ceremony to recall those who died on torpedoed Japanese freighter">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2023
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Anzac dawn ceremonies have been held across the Pacific region, with tributes paid to both Anzac and Pacific Island soldiers killed in the two world wars. Papua New Guinea In Papua New Guinea, World War II veterans were among those who attended a dawn service held at the Bomana ... <a title="Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/26/tributes-made-to-anzac-and-pacific-soldiers-killed-in-world-wars/" aria-label="Read more about Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury What happened on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey 108 years ago has shocked and shaped Aotearoa New Zealand ever since. The challenge in the 21st century, then, is how best to give contemporary relevance to such an epochal event. The essence of the Anzac story is well known. ... <a title="New lessons about old wars: keeping the complex Anzac Day story relevant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/25/new-lessons-about-old-wars-keeping-the-complex-anzac-day-story-relevant/" aria-label="Read more about New lessons about old wars: keeping the complex Anzac Day story relevant">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2023
Brief reports have surfaced about the separate bilateral meetings of the Kanaky New Caledonia pro- and anti- independence representatives at their meeting in Paris with French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne last week. Here the leader of the Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS) delegation, Roch Wamytan, outlines their case as presented to PM ... <a title="Unfinished business over New Caledonian decolonisation – new challenges after ‘stolen’ referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/20/unfinished-business-over-new-caledonian-decolonisation-new-challenges-after-stolen-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about Unfinished business over New Caledonian decolonisation – new challenges after ‘stolen’ referendum">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
By Diane Wilson in Kokopo Deputy Prime Minister John Rosso has described the late Sir Rabbie Namaliu as a “shining example” of what politicians and leaders of today should aspire to be. Paying his tribute yesterday at the Vunapope Conference Centre, Kokopo, yesterday, Rosso said: “We should learn from people like Sir Rabbie, in terms ... <a title="Rosso pays tribute to former PM Sir Rabbie’s ‘great legacy of integrity’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/rosso-pays-tribute-to-former-pm-sir-rabbies-great-legacy-of-integrity/" aria-label="Read more about Rosso pays tribute to former PM Sir Rabbie’s ‘great legacy of integrity’">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Essay by Keith Rankin. I was intrigued to see this Daily Telegraph story – King Charles’ coronation: Australian man Simon Abney-Hastings could be rightful heir to British throne (published NZ Herald, 9 April) – about an Australian resident who could be said to be the rightful king of the United Kingdom and those Commonwealth countries ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Monarchy Past and Present, Succession, and Credible Threats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/keith-rankin-essay-monarchy-past-and-present-succession-and-credible-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Monarchy Past and Present, Succession, and Credible Threats">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
By Jean Nuia in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea’s fourth prime minister, Sir Rabbie Namaliu, has died — four days shy of his 76th birthday which would have been celebrated today. The late Sir Rabbie was born Rabbie Langanai Namaliu on April 3, 1947, to early local missionaries Darius and Utul Ioan Namaliu, ... <a title="PNG’s Sir Rabbie blessed at birth – ‘he’ll be a big man, clever’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/pngs-sir-rabbie-blessed-at-birth-hell-be-a-big-man-clever/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Sir Rabbie blessed at birth – ‘he’ll be a big man, clever’">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2023
RNZ News It has been a year since the violent end of the illegal occupation at Parliament in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you thought you had seen it all at the time, you should think again. Boiling Point, a new documentary from RNZ, includes previously unseen footage of clashes at Parliament on 2 March 2022, ... <a title="RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an infamous protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/03/rnz-documentary-boiling-point-spotlight-on-final-day-of-an-infamous-protest/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an infamous protest">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of 1News The appointment of Baron Waqa, former President of Nauru, to head the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) next year was a jaw-droppingly poor decision and an insult to everything the regional body is meant to represent. What were the Forum leaders thinking? Here’s the thing, they were probably ... <a title="Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an insult" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/barbara-dreaver-pacific-leaders-poor-choice-for-top-forum-job-an-insult/" aria-label="Read more about Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an insult">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
By Nathan Woti in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape has approved the building of a monument of the late Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare at the University of Papua New Guinea. During the ground-breaking ceremony on Friday, Marape said the monument would symbolise what the nation’s founding fathers stood for, and the legacy of ... <a title="UPNG monument plan for ‘inspired leader’ Sir Michael Somare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/upng-monument-plan-for-inspired-leader-sir-michael-somare/" aria-label="Read more about UPNG monument plan for ‘inspired leader’ Sir Michael Somare">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2023
RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has described today’s Waitangi Day dawn service as moving and says he welcomes the shift away from a focus on politics. Hundreds of people gathered before dawn to commemorate 183 years since Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed. Hipkins said the national day had a greater focus ... <a title="Prime Minister Hipkins welcomes less politics, more commemoration on Waitangi Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/07/prime-minister-hipkins-welcomes-less-politics-more-commemoration-on-waitangi-day/" aria-label="Read more about Prime Minister Hipkins welcomes less politics, more commemoration on Waitangi Day">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato; Claire Breen, University of Waikato, and Valmaine Toki, University of Waikato The heated (and often confused) debate about “co-governance” in Aotearoa New Zealand inevitably leads back to its source, Te Tiriti o Waitangi. But, as its long-contested meanings demonstrate, very little in the Treaty of Waitangi is straightforward. ... <a title="NZ’s Waitangi Day 2023 – why Article 3 of the Treaty deserves more attention in the age of ‘co-governance’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/nzs-waitangi-day-2023-why-article-3-of-the-treaty-deserves-more-attention-in-the-age-of-co-governance/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Waitangi Day 2023 – why Article 3 of the Treaty deserves more attention in the age of ‘co-governance’">Read more</a>