Independent Analysis and Reportage
In this, the 21st episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning analyse the notion, and perhaps the reality, of Trumpism beyond Trump. And they do so through framing the results of Brazil's election; the approaching US midterm elections, and the coalition shifts toward the far right in the wake of Israel's elections.
By Yance Wenda in Jayapura A Papuan woman politician has warned Indonesian security forces against restricting women from selling noken — traditional string bags — and other accessories displaying the banned Morning Star flag design at the Papuan National Games (PON XX) venue in Jayapura. Orpa Nari, a Papuan People’s Assembly (MRP) member of the ... <a title="‘It’s our identity’, declare Papua’s defiant mamas over Morning Star" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/12/its-our-identity-declare-papuas-defiant-mamas-over-morning-star/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It’s our identity’, declare Papua’s defiant mamas over Morning Star">Read more</a>
By Andrew McRae, RNZ News reporter The umbrella term Pacific Islander or Polynesian has been criticised as degrading and insensitive. Researcher Dr Seini Taufa, who is a New Zealand-born Tongan, said the names were not indigenous terms and were insulting. Dr Taufa is research lead for Moana Research and Senior Pacific Advisor for the Growing ... <a title="‘Pacific Islander’ an insulting umbrella term, researcher tells Royal Commission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/23/pacific-islander-an-insulting-umbrella-term-researcher-tells-royal-commission/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Pacific Islander’ an insulting umbrella term, researcher tells Royal Commission">Read more</a>
Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa are in search of healing. Trailer: NZIFF Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The documentary Loimata, The Sweetest Tears has won the Grand Prix du Jury at Tahiti’s FIFO (Festival International du Film Documentaire ... <a title="Loimata, The Sweetest Tears carries off grand prize at 2021 FIFO" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/loimata-the-sweetest-tears-carries-off-grand-prize-at-2021-fifo/" aria-label="Read more about Loimata, The Sweetest Tears carries off grand prize at 2021 FIFO">Read more</a>
COMMENT: By Shilo Kino What were you doing during the foreshore and seabed hīkoi in 2004? I wish I could say I was at the protest, gripping the hem of Nana’s dress while she raised her fist in the air, marching for sovereignty, echoing the cries of our tīpuna who were fighting for the very same ... <a title="‘Your mana diminishes every time you turn on the news’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/30/your-mana-diminishes-every-time-you-turn-on-the-news/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Your mana diminishes every time you turn on the news’">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin, 6 July 2020 Three Citizenships The concept of ‘citizenship’ has both general and specific meanings. The most specific and familiar I call passport citizenship. A passport citizen of a country is a person holding a passport for that country, or with unambiguous entitlement to hold such a passport. More than anything a ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Duty of Care and Economic Citizenship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/07/keith-rankin-analysis-duty-of-care-and-economic-citizenship/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Duty of Care and Economic Citizenship">Read more</a>
Chlöe Swarbrick’s “OK boomer” retort in Parliament has proved to be the spark that set alight a dry field of latent generational angst. The debate over the remark rolls on and on, revealing that generational warfare is a growing cleavage in New Zealand. Increasingly, political problems of housing, inequality, climate change and so forth, are ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why “OK boomer” generational warfare is a dead-end" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/19/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-why-ok-boomer-generational-warfare-is-a-dead-end/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why “OK boomer” generational warfare is a dead-end">Read more</a>
Column: Barbara Sumner – If adoption secrecy were a game show, they’d call it, ‘how much do you really want this?’ Because I am adopted, I have no birth story. However, the state holds a large number of files on me. Legal documents, doctors notes, feeding recipes and home visit comments. Through these documents, I ... <a title="Column: Barbara Sumner – The Adoption Game Show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/23/barbara-sumner-column-the-adoption-game-show/" aria-label="Read more about Column: Barbara Sumner – The Adoption Game Show">Read more</a>
Column: Barbara Sumner – 1960 was a big year for my adopting parents. First came the infertility diagnosis. Then a new baby arrived with little warning and no fanfare. Followed within days by a new refrigerator. I was one of over 103,000 New Zealand babies forcibly removed from my single mother. Her dying mother sent ... <a title="The baby or the fridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/the-baby-or-the-fridge/" aria-label="Read more about The baby or the fridge">Read more</a>
Dr Janet Tupou … injecting diversity into university communications space. Image: AUT Pacific By Dr Janet Tupou Hand over heart, speaking life into your goals and dreams can see them come true. After sitting in my first ever lecture at university, I knew that I wanted to be the one on the other side of ... <a title="Janet Tupou: Speaking life into your goals and seeing dreams come true" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/30/janet-tupou-speaking-life-into-your-goals-and-seeing-dreams-come-true/" aria-label="Read more about Janet Tupou: Speaking life into your goals and seeing dreams come true">Read more</a>
Column: Barbara Sumner – As a child, my family saw the musical Oliver. For days after, my adopting mother hummed and sang the theme tune: Consider yourself one of us Consider yourself at home Consider yourself one of the family ….etc etc The song is a bit of an earworm. I’d forgotten it and the ... <a title="Consider youself one of us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/17/consider-youself-one-of-us/" aria-label="Read more about Consider youself one of us">Read more</a>
Political Roundup: Police, Pride and prejudice By Bryce Edwards. “All liberation movements fall apart and devolve into factionalism” suggested Kim Hill yesterday in her RNZ interview with Pride festival board chairperson Cissy Rock. Although expressed in rather a negative way, Hill’s statement is one of the clearest observations of the current meltdown in the LGBTQ+ ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Police, Pride and prejudice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/26/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-police-pride-and-prejudice/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Police, Pride and prejudice">Read more</a>