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September 23, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A United Nations expert has urged Indonesia to provide proper medical care to a Papuan independence activist to “keep him from dying in prison”, after reports emerged that his health had deteriorated, reports The Jakarta Post. Victor Yeimo, 39, the international spokesman for the West Papua National Committee, was arrested in ... <a title="Detained West Papuan activist at risk of ‘dying in jail’, UN expert warns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/detained-west-papuan-activist-at-risk-of-dying-in-jail-un-expert-warns/" aria-label="Read more about Detained West Papuan activist at risk of ‘dying in jail’, UN expert warns">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury In 1992 four New Zealand icons (and the queen) appeared on new banknotes. Part of creating national identity, these notable citizens were chosen to represent the pinnacles of achievement. Āpirana Ngata, Edmund Hillary, Ernest Rutherford and Kate Sheppard — all in circulation so their acts and values can ... <a title="On the money: Kate Sheppard and the making of a NZ feminist icon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/on-the-money-kate-sheppard-and-the-making-of-a-nz-feminist-icon/" aria-label="Read more about On the money: Kate Sheppard and the making of a NZ feminist icon">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific reporter Australia’s new security pact with the US and the UK has touched a nerve at the core of Pacific regionalism. The AUKUS alliance, announced by leaders of the three countries last week, finds them seeking strategic advantage in the Indo-Pacific region with a focus on developing nuclear-powered submarines for ... <a title="AUKUS pact strikes at heart of Pacific nuclear-free regionalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/aukus-pact-strikes-at-heart-of-pacific-nuclear-free-regionalism/" aria-label="Read more about AUKUS pact strikes at heart of Pacific nuclear-free regionalism">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) claims that an attack on a military post in Maybrat regency earlier this month is being used as a pretext to “force the KNPB into a corner” and to criminalise them, reports Suara Papua. The September 2 attack on Kisor sub-district military post in Maybrat ... <a title="Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/papuas-knpb-accuses-jakarta-of-using-military-post-attack-to-criminalise-them/" aria-label="Read more about Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise them">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Shailendra Singh in Suva Do the Fiji news media represent a wide range of political perspectives?Fiji’s national media, like media elsewhere, would cover a wider berth collectively, rather than as individual media organisations, because individual media have obvious leanings and priorities. But do the media, even as whole, provide a wide enough perspective?Not ... <a title="Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/slippery-slope-for-fijis-media-in-politically-charged-climate/" aria-label="Read more about Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has dispatched a team of government officials to investigate a covid-19 delta variant threat in its two frontline provinces bordering Indonesia’s Papua — Western and West Sepik. Health Minister Jelta Wong has revealed this in Parliament while responding to questions without notice. Admitting the rise of ... <a title="PNG dispatches investigators to check out ‘delta threat’ on Papuan border" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/png-dispatches-investigators-to-check-out-delta-threat-on-papuan-border/" aria-label="Read more about PNG dispatches investigators to check out ‘delta threat’ on Papuan border">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Jason Brown in Auckland Twenty years ago, I was on a plane from Rarotonga to Auckland. Lovely flight, with a path at the end I had never experienced before. Almost from the tip of the North Island, down to Tamaki Makaurau — the rising sun bathing the hills and coastline in rich, almost ... <a title="Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/jason-brown-9-11-and-a-mango-dawn-and-heres-to-the-end-of-being-pacific-pawns/" aria-label="Read more about Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Pasifika local government politician in New Zealand, the first from Kiribati to be elected to political office, has appealed to “Pasifika friends and family” to get vaccinated now as part of the national covid rollout. Victoria Short, deputy chair of Auckland’s Hibiscus and Bays Local Board, says not to wait. ... <a title="Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/plea-to-pasifika-friends-and-family-community-to-get-covid-shots/" aria-label="Read more about Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney Since the attacks on the United States by 15 Saudi Arabian Islamic fanatics on 11 September 2001 — now known as 9/11 — the world has been divided by a “war on terror” with any protest group defined as “terrorists”. New anti-terror laws have been introduced both in the ... <a title="9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is poised for revival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/12/9-11-killed-it-but-20-years-on-global-justice-movement-is-poised-for-revival/" aria-label="Read more about 9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is poised for revival">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Clare Corbould, Deakin University Since the September 11 terror attacks, there has been no hiding from the increased militarisation of the United States. Everyday life is suffused with policing and surveillance. This ranges from the inconvenient, such as removing shoes at the airport, to the dystopian, such as local police departments equipped with ... <a title="‘Fortress USA’: How 9/11 produced a military industrial juggernaut" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/fortress-usa-how-9-11-produced-a-military-industrial-juggernaut/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Fortress USA’: How 9/11 produced a military industrial juggernaut">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2021
By Susan Price in Sydney West Papua activists have called on the Australian government to raise concerns about the Indonesian military’s ongoing human rights abuses in West Papua, when they met with their Indonesian counterparts this week. Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton are attending the seventh Indonesia-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministers ... <a title="Activists call on Canberra to protest over human rights abuses in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/activists-call-on-canberra-to-protest-over-human-rights-abuses-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Activists call on Canberra to protest over human rights abuses in Papua">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Māori political leader has branded opposition neoliberal ACT leader David Seymour’s act this week undermining an indigenous response to New Zealand’s covid-19 pandemic as “unbelievably irresponsible and cruel”. Seymour publicly shared a priority vaccine code for Māori so that Pākehā, or non-Māori, could jump the queue for vaccinations against the ... <a title="Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/09/seymours-sabotage-of-maori-priority-vaccine-code-unbelievably-cruel/" aria-label="Read more about Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’">Read more</a>
