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September 21, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury Aotearoa New Zealand’s opposition – and poll leader — National Party’s three biggest donors have a combined net worth of $15 billion. The bottom 50 percent of NZ has $23 billion. The top 5 percent of New Zealanders own roughly 50 percent of New Zealand’s wealth, while the bottom 50 percent ... <a title="NZ election 2023: Dear NZ, our foundations are in ruin and there’s no political courage for tomorrow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/21/nz-election-2023-dear-nz-our-foundations-are-in-ruin-and-theres-no-political-courage-for-tomorrow/" aria-label="Read more about NZ election 2023: Dear NZ, our foundations are in ruin and there’s no political courage for tomorrow">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2023
By Pita Ligaiula of Pacnews Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa says the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is focused on how they will approach the next seven years to achieve the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Addressing the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development in New York on behalf ... <a title="Samoa PM calls on world leaders to ‘leave nationalism behind’ to achieve UN sustainability goals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/21/samoa-pm-calls-on-world-leaders-to-leave-nationalism-behind-to-achieve-un-sustainability-goals/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa PM calls on world leaders to ‘leave nationalism behind’ to achieve UN sustainability goals">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2023
Jubi News in Jayapura Academics at Papuan tertiary institutions have accused Indonesian authorities of a new “indigenous marginalisation” programme through the establishment of the autonomous regions of Papua that poses a “significant threat” to the local population. The dean of the Faculty of Social Science at Okmin University of Papua, Octaviaen Gerald Bidana, said the ... <a title="Papuan academics accuse Indonesia of new ‘indigenous marginalisation’ strategy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/20/papuan-academics-accuse-indonesia-of-new-indigenous-marginalisation-strategy/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan academics accuse Indonesia of new ‘indigenous marginalisation’ strategy">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Auckland Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson welcomed a large crowd on Suffrage Day yesterday to celebrate at a memorial to mark 130 years of women in Aotearoa New Zealand having the right to vote. Speakers included Challen Wilson, a National Council of Women member and great granddaughter of Mere Te Tai Mangakāhia; Isabelle ... <a title="Deputy mayor pays tribute to ‘fearless advocacy’ of suffragettes 130 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/20/deputy-mayor-pays-tribute-to-fearless-advocacy-of-suffragettes-130-years-ago/" aria-label="Read more about Deputy mayor pays tribute to ‘fearless advocacy’ of suffragettes 130 years ago">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Former MP for Madang Open and anti-corruption campaigner Bryan Kramer has filed a Supreme Court appeal against a National Court ruling dismissing his application for leave to review a Leadership Tribunal’s decision to dismiss him from office. His appeal to the Supreme Court follows the refusal of a leave to review application in ... <a title="Anti-corruption former MP Kramer appeals to PNG Supreme Court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/19/anti-corruption-former-mp-kramer-appeals-to-png-supreme-court/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-corruption former MP Kramer appeals to PNG Supreme Court">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2023
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier “Is there a democratic Papua New Guinean nation — or is it merely an arbitrary nation built on a shaky, crumbling foundation of disparate traditional customs and the Melanesian Way? “Has the system of government become a hybrid of concepts that fail to work on any level — a bastardisation ... <a title="PNG Post-Courier: Our democracy, our Melanesian way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/png-post-courier-our-democracy-our-melanesian-way/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Post-Courier: Our democracy, our Melanesian way">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian human rights advocacy group for West Papuans has condemned the killing of 5 youths found dead in Dekai, capital of Yahukimo Regency, and have challenged Canberra to reconsider government ties with Indonesian security forces. Criticising the latest deaths, Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) spokesperson Joe Collins said: “While West Papuans ... <a title="Australian advocacy group condemns killing of 5 West Papuans – challenges Canberra" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/australian-advocacy-group-condemns-killing-of-5-west-papuans-challenges-canberra/" aria-label="Read more about Australian advocacy group condemns killing of 5 West Papuans – challenges Canberra">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2023
Though the Oslo Accords and its signatories made many promises to the Palestinians, in reality, it carved Palestine up into bantustans and ghettos with limited self-autonomy for Palestinians on a minuscule portion of their homeland. By Yumna Patel On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) ... <a title="‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on 30 years of the Oslo Accords" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/17/it-was-set-up-to-fail-us-palestinians-reflect-on-30-years-of-the-oslo-accords/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on 30 years of the Oslo Accords">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The Free Papua Organisation (Organisasi Papua Merdeka-OPM) has sent an open letter to the United Nations leadership demanding that “decolonisation” of the former Dutch colony of West New Guinea, the Indonesian-administered region known across the Pacific as West Papua, be initiated under the direction of the UN Trusteeship Council. The letter accuses ... <a title="OPM calls for decolonisation of West Papua, condemns UN ‘collusion’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/16/opm-calls-for-decolonisation-of-west-papua-condemns-un-collusion/" aria-label="Read more about OPM calls for decolonisation of West Papua, condemns UN ‘collusion’">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2023
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Parliament has passed a motion for the coalition government to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission “to facilitate open and free engagement in truth telling” to resolve racial differences and concerns in the country. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka had announced in December 2022 after forming a coalition that the setting up of ... <a title="Fijian lawmakers vote for truth telling body to ‘heal coup pains, scars’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/15/fijian-lawmakers-vote-for-truth-telling-body-to-heal-coup-pains-scars/" aria-label="Read more about Fijian lawmakers vote for truth telling body to ‘heal coup pains, scars’">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Prime Minister James Marape has made two foreign policy gaffes in the space of a week that may come back to bite him as Papua New Guinea prepares for its 48th anniversary of independence this Saturday. Critics have been stunned by the opening of a PNG embassy ... <a title="PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/pngs-marape-makes-foreign-policy-gaffes-over-israel-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
RNZ Pacific The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has declared it will now base itself in the Pacific region after years of partial exile. At a conference in Port Vila late last month — coinciding with the Melanesian Spearhead Group Leaders’ Summit — UK-based Benny Wenda stood down as interim president. Menase Tabuni ... <a title="Benny Wenda stands down as head of West Papuan liberation group" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/benny-wenda-stands-down-as-head-of-west-papuan-liberation-group/" aria-label="Read more about Benny Wenda stands down as head of West Papuan liberation group">Read more</a>
