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May 30, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter The president of New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party Daniel Goa will not be prosecuted for alleged calls for violence and sedition. Last month, a coalition of anti-independence parties had lodged a formal complaint with the Public Prosecutor over a speech given by Goa at a party meeting. Goa had ... <a title="No sedition charges against Kanak pro-independence leader, says prosecutor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/30/no-sedition-charges-against-kanak-pro-independence-leader-says-prosecutor/" aria-label="Read more about No sedition charges against Kanak pro-independence leader, says prosecutor">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed for Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape to become a “neutral intermediary” to negotiate between the Indonesian government and the West Papuan rebels holding a New Zealand pilot hostage for his release. He has called in a statement today for the safe ... <a title="OPM call for PNG’s James Marape as negotiator for NZ pilot’s safe passage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/28/opm-call-for-pngs-james-marape-as-negotiator-for-nz-pilots-safe-passage/" aria-label="Read more about OPM call for PNG’s James Marape as negotiator for NZ pilot’s safe passage">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2023
By Rayssa Almeida, RNZ News reporter New Zealand’s Māori Party co-leader says the opposition National Party should go back to school if it thinks including te reo Māori on road signs is confusing. In a transport meeting yesterday in Bay of Plenty, National’s spokesperson Simeon Brown said introducing the language to road signs would make ... <a title="NZ’s opposition ‘need to go back to school’ over bilingual sign attack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/27/nzs-opposition-need-to-go-back-to-school-over-bilingual-sign-attack/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s opposition ‘need to go back to school’ over bilingual sign attack">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2023
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Kelvin Anthony, lead digital and social media journalist Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs has endorsed the reinstatement of a lease distribution policy with the iTaukei Land Trust Board. The decision was reached by interim council members who met on Bau Island yesterday shortly after the historic re-establishment ... <a title="Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs reinstates native land lease policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/26/fijis-great-council-of-chiefs-reinstates-native-land-lease-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs reinstates native land lease policy">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2023
RNZ Pacific The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of community Radio Tefana. Pro-independence community station Radio Tefana … acquitted over the US$1 million broadcast case. Image: Radio Tefana/RNZ In 2019, Temaru was given a six-month suspended prison sentence and ... <a title="Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/25/court-acquits-tahitian-politician-oscar-temaru-in-anti-nuclear-radio-case/" aria-label="Read more about Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2023
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country? Papua New Guinea’s Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems to think so and he is partly right in his public statement on the matter in the PNG Post-Courier last month. Unlike in the past, when our people were ... <a title="PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/25/png-corruption-our-people-think-mps-are-automatic-teller-machines/" aria-label="Read more about PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process. Amid a dispute over the validity of the referendum process under the Noumea Accord, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told the United Nations last week that self-determination might take “one ... <a title="Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/caledonian-union-dismisses-two-generations-to-self-determination-comment-as-an-insult/" aria-label="Read more about Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Kelvin Anthony, lead digital and social media journalist Chiefs are to serve people and not to be served, Fiji President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere told the Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) on Bau Island in Fiji today. The Council — regarded as the apex of traditional Fijian leadership and ... <a title="Fiji President welcomes inclusive ‘new dawn’ for Great Council of Chiefs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/fiji-president-welcomes-inclusive-new-dawn-for-great-council-of-chiefs/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji President welcomes inclusive ‘new dawn’ for Great Council of Chiefs">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of “non self-governing territories”, citing the “sham” vote in 1969 and the worsening human rights violations in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian region. The UN Special Committee on Decolonisation began its 2023 Pacific Regional Seminar in Bali, ... <a title="Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/protesters-call-for-west-papua-to-be-included-on-un-decolonisation-list/" aria-label="Read more about Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia. Controlled by France since 1853, New Caledonia was returned to the UN decolonisation list as prolonged political violence threatened in 1986 — 39 years after France had withdrawn it and its other ... <a title="France briefs UN on New Caledonia decolonisation impasse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/france-briefs-un-on-new-caledonia-decolonisation-impasse/" aria-label="Read more about France briefs UN on New Caledonia decolonisation impasse">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this year’s referendum in Australia. This has included some media and politicians drawing comparisons between the Voice and South Africa’s apartheid regime. Cory Bernardi, a Sky News commentator, argued, for instance, ... <a title="The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/the-voice-isnt-apartheid-or-a-veto-over-parliament-this-misinformation-is-undermining-democratic-debate/" aria-label="Read more about The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2023
By Stella Martin and Rose Amos in Port Moresby Thousands of students at the University of Papua New Guinea staged a protest at the Waigani campus Forum Square today against the US-PNG Defence Cooperation Agreement that is scheduled for signing this afternoon. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is already in the country to sign ... <a title="UPNG student protesters call for ‘transparency’ over US defence pact" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/22/upng-student-protesters-call-for-transparency-over-us-defence-pact/" aria-label="Read more about UPNG student protesters call for ‘transparency’ over US defence pact">Read more</a>
