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March 9, 2026
REVIEW: Asia Pacific Report West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening of the new investigative documentary, Pesta Badi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in our Time, in its pre-launch international premiere in New Zealand last night. It was shown for the first time back in West Papua at the southeastern town of ... <a title="West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/09/west-papuan-doco-pig-feast-exposes-oligarchs-food-security-crisis-and-ecocide-under-noses-of-military/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Christopher Warren There’s been skillful work in journalism’s dark arts on display in the UK this past week, as the nasty British right-wing media pack tore down two senior BBC executives. The right-wing culture warriors will be celebrating big time. They reckon they’ve put a big dent in Britain’s most trusted and most ... <a title="Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/bending-over-backwards-for-the-right-isnt-saving-the-bbc-it-wont-save-the-abc-either/" aria-label="Read more about Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2025
MEDIAWATCH: By RNZ Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock Successive New Zealand governments have dodged the issue of how the news media should be held to account, leaving us with outdated and fragmented systems for standards and complaints. But the issue erupted recently when the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) advised The Platform it could consider public complaints ... <a title="Mediawatch: Talley’s vs TVNZ in defamation confrontation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/mediawatch-talleys-vs-tvnz-in-defamation-confrontation/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Talley’s vs TVNZ in defamation confrontation">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2025
Pacific Media Watch In July 1985, Australia’s Pacific territory of Norfolk Island (pop. 2188) became the centre of a real life international spy thriller. Four French agents sailed there on board the Ouvéa, a yacht from Kanaky New Caledonia, after bombing the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, killing Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira. The Rainbow Warrior was ... <a title="Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/03/fallout-spies-on-norfolk-island-sbs-podcast/" aria-label="Read more about Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s show looking at Israel’s ongoing targeting of Palestinian journalists. A recent report by the Costs of War Project at Brown University described the war in Gaza as the “worst ever conflict for reporters” in history. By one count, Israel has killed ... <a title="Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Film names Israeli soldier but Biden, Israel ‘did best to cover up’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/11/who-killed-shireen-abu-akleh-film-names-israeli-soldier-but-biden-israel-did-best-to-cover-up/" aria-label="Read more about Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Film names Israeli soldier but Biden, Israel ‘did best to cover up’">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2025
Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s show looking at Israel’s ongoing targeting of Palestinian journalists. A recent report by the Costs of War Project at Brown University described the war in Gaza as the “worst ever conflict for reporters” in history. By one count, Israel has killed 214 Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the ... <a title="Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Film names Israeli soldier but Israel ‘did best to cover up’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/10/who-killed-shireen-abu-akleh-film-names-israeli-soldier-but-israel-did-best-to-cover-up/" aria-label="Read more about Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Film names Israeli soldier but Israel ‘did best to cover up’">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
PROFILE: By Alu J Kalinoe At Papua New Guinea’s Post-Courier, our senior journalists often operate in the shadows, yet their courageous efforts are often overlooked — continuously pushing boundaries to bring us important stories that shape our lives and venturing outside their comfort zones to deliver top-notch content. This is the tale of one of ... <a title="PNG’s Gorethy Kenneth: 23 years of fearless journalism and unwavering truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/pngs-gorethy-kenneth-23-years-of-fearless-journalism-and-unwavering-truth/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Gorethy Kenneth: 23 years of fearless journalism and unwavering truth">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Teals and Greens are under political attack from a new pro-fossil fuel, pro-Israel astroturfing group, adding to the onslaught by far-right lobbyists Advance Australia for Australian federal election tomorrow — World Press Freedom Day. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon investigate. SPECIAL REPORT: By Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon On February 12 this year, former prime ... <a title="Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals and Greens for Australian election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/dark-money-labor-and-liberal-join-forces-in-attacks-on-teals-and-greens-for-australian-election/" aria-label="Read more about Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals and Greens for Australian election">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – In Bislama, they say, “Wan nambanga i foldaon“. A great tree has fallen. The nambanga, or banyan tree, is the centrepiece of many a Vanuatu village. Its massive network of boughs provides shade, shelter and strength. I’ve only ever seen one knocked down, and that was ... <a title="Dan McGarry: Marc Neil-Jones is dead. His legacy lives on." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/16/dan-mcgarry-marc-neil-jones-is-dead-his-legacy-lives-on/" aria-label="Read more about Dan McGarry: Marc Neil-Jones is dead. His legacy lives on.">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2025
A investigative journalism programme — Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — that has pubiished exposes about the South Pacific and has not been impacted on by the “freeze” of USAID funding has hit back in an editorial calling for support of independent media. EDITORIAL: By the OCCRP editors “OCCRP is a deep state ... <a title="‘Journalism has become a blood sport. It is harder and harder to tell the truth’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/08/journalism-has-become-a-blood-sport-it-is-harder-and-harder-to-tell-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Journalism has become a blood sport. It is harder and harder to tell the truth’">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2025
By Ria de Borja in Manila For 30 years, Filipino journalist Manny “Bok” Mogato covered the police and defence rounds, and everything from politics to foreign relations, sports, and entertainment, eventually bagging one of journalism’s top prizes — the Pulitzer in 2018, for his reporting on Duterte’s drug war along with two other Reuters correspondents, ... <a title="‘In my early days, I was reckless,’ says Pultizer winner Manny Mogato" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/13/in-my-early-days-i-was-reckless-says-pultizer-winner-manny-mogato/" aria-label="Read more about ‘In my early days, I was reckless,’ says Pultizer winner Manny Mogato">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2024
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Syria, where tens of thousands of people gathered at the Great Mosque of Damascus for the first Friday prayers since longtime authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad was toppled by opposition fighters. DAMASCUS RESIDENT: [translated] Hopefully this Friday is the Friday of the greatest joy, a Friday of ... <a title="Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved ones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/14/damascus-and-gaza-prisoners-syrians-and-palestinians-search-for-disappeared-loved-ones/" aria-label="Read more about Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved ones">Read more</a>
