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April 11, 2023
Introducing ABC’s The Pacific – first episode. Video: ABC SPECIAL REPORT: By ABC Backstory editor Natasha Johnson When Tahlea Aualiitia talks about hosting the ABC’s new Pacific-focused news and current affairs TV programme, The Pacific, her voice breaks and she becomes emotional. Personally, it’s a career milestone, anchoring her first TV show after a decade ... <a title="ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and their storytellers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/abc-launches-new-tv-show-the-pacific-and-their-storytellers/" aria-label="Read more about ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and their storytellers">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2023
RNZ Pacific The authorities in Indonesia’s Papua region say the search for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by West Papua Liberation Movement freedom fighters more than two months ago has been extended. Philip Mehrtens, a pilot for Susi Airlines, was taken hostage in the remote Nduga district on February 7. According to Antara News, ... <a title="Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papua rebels extended, says Indonesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/10/search-for-nz-pilot-taken-hostage-by-papua-rebels-extended-says-indonesia/" aria-label="Read more about Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papua rebels extended, says Indonesia">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” For decades, the BBC’s editorial policy in reporting on Israel and Palestine has consistently chosen the side of the oppressor — and ... <a title="Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/08/al-aqsa-raid-how-bbc-coverage-is-enabling-israeli-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2023
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva There was euphoria at the campus of the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva in Fiji last Thursday when news came from New York that a historic resolution on climate action had been adopted unanimously at the United Nations General Assembly. The resolution refers to the International Court ... <a title="‘Frustrated’ USP law students were catalyst for landmark UN climate vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/06/frustrated-usp-law-students-were-catalyst-for-landmark-un-climate-vote/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Frustrated’ USP law students were catalyst for landmark UN climate vote">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2023
RNZ News Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has used her valedictory speech to Parliament to ask the House to take the politics out of climate change. In her speech, Ardern said when she became prime minister she knew she wanted climate change to be “front and centre”. “I called it our nuclear moment ... <a title="Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory plea – ‘take politics out of climate change’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/05/jacinda-arderns-valedictory-plea-take-politics-out-of-climate-change/" aria-label="Read more about Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory plea – ‘take politics out of climate change’">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama today condemned a visiting Papua New Guinean member of Parliament for “mocking” the autonomous region’s independence aspirations during a drunken exchange in Buka last week, saying that he must “atone for his blunder”. A video of Ijivitari MP David Arore allegedly abusing security guards and airport staff while ... <a title="Bougainville president slams ‘mocking’ by drunken MP over independence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/bougainville-president-slams-mocking-by-drunken-mp-over-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville president slams ‘mocking’ by drunken MP over independence">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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April 4, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The Australia West Papua Association has condemned an Indonesian crackdown on a peaceful Papua self-determination rally in Bali at the weekend after a militant nationalist group targeted the Papuan students. The Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) in Bali City held the rally on Saturday calling on the Indonesian government to hold a referendum ... <a title="Australian advocacy group condemns Indonesian crackdown on Papuan ‘democracy’ rally in Bali" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/australian-advocacy-group-condemns-indonesian-crackdown-on-papuan-democracy-rally-in-bali/" aria-label="Read more about Australian advocacy group condemns Indonesian crackdown on Papuan ‘democracy’ rally in Bali">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University As part of its aspiration to be “Tiriti-led”, the University of Otago has embarked on a consultation process to re-brand. The proposed change involves a new logo and a new, deeply symbolic Māori name: Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. Universities occasionally change logos, names and marketing strategies. All New Zealand ... <a title="NZ universities are not normal Crown institutions – they shouldn’t be ‘Tiriti-led’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/nz-universities-are-not-normal-crown-institutions-they-shouldnt-be-tiriti-led/" aria-label="Read more about NZ universities are not normal Crown institutions – they shouldn’t be ‘Tiriti-led’">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2023
By Sri Krishnamurthi Highly respected and convivial Koroi Hawkins has become RNZ Pacific’s first Melanesian editor after arriving in New Zealand in 2010 and says he is “truly humbled” after nearly a decade at RNZ. “It is a great honour. I am a Pacific journalist from the school of hardknocks so it was already a ... <a title="‘Calm in crisis’ Koroi Hawkins steps up as RNZ Pacific’s first Melanesian editor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/03/calm-in-crisis-koroi-hawkins-steps-up-as-rnz-pacifics-first-melanesian-editor/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Calm in crisis’ Koroi Hawkins steps up as RNZ Pacific’s first Melanesian editor">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2023
Jubi News in Jayapura Indonesia’s Papua police chief Inspector-General Mathius D Fakhiri has called for action to ensure that “security disturbances” in the Puncak Jaya highlands do not widen in the face of escalating attacks by pro-independence militants. “For Puncak, we will take immediate action,” he said. According to General Fakhiri, attacks by the West ... <a title="Indonesian police move to stem rise in Papuan freedom fighter attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/01/indonesian-police-move-to-stem-rise-in-papuan-freedom-fighter-attacks/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian police move to stem rise in Papuan freedom fighter attacks">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2023
By Jan Kohout, RNZ Pacific journalist New Caledonia’s Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) say they will tell the French Prime Minister of the Kanak people’s “sense of humiliation” over the last independence referendum. The pro-independence alliance is set to talk to the French state from April 7-15. The secretary-general of the Caledonian Union, ... <a title="FLNKS message to French PM about Kanak ‘humiliation’ over referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/31/flnks-message-to-french-pm-about-kanak-humiliation-over-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about FLNKS message to French PM about Kanak ‘humiliation’ over referendum">Read more</a>
