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August 20, 2025
Why the recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia is an important development. Meanwhile, New Zealand still dithers. This article unpacks the hypocrisy in the debate. ANALYSIS: By Paul Heywood-Smith The recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia, leading, it is hoped, to full UN member state status, is an important development. What ... <a title="Rewarding knowingly illegal conduct – some might say, Israeli terrorism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/rewarding-knowingly-illegal-conduct-some-might-say-israeli-terrorism/" aria-label="Read more about Rewarding knowingly illegal conduct – some might say, Israeli terrorism">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone It’s so revealing how Israelis keep begging Trump to end the killing in Gaza, because they understand that the US President has the power to force Israel to stop. It seems like Israelis understand this far better than Americans do. Six former ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Israelis understand that Trump can end the nightmare in Gaza. Americans should know this too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/caitlin-johnstone-israelis-understand-that-trump-can-end-the-nightmare-in-gaza-americans-should-know-this-too/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Israelis understand that Trump can end the nightmare in Gaza. Americans should know this too">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls Author David Robie left his cabin on the Rainbow Warrior three days before it was blown up by the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), France’s foreign intelligence agency The ship was destroyed at Marsden Wharf on 10 July 1985 by two limpet mines attachedbelow the waterline. As New Zealand soon ... <a title="Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must read for activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/eyes-of-fire-is-an-updated-rainbow-warrior-classic-and-must-read-for-activism/" aria-label="Read more about Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must read for activism">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
By Elena Vucukula in Suva The main problem in for Fiji retirement is that there is no law to protect the Fiji National Provident Fund, claims a leading trade unionist. Fiji Trades Union Congress national executive board member and National Union of Hospitality Catering and Tourism Industries Employees general secretary Daniel Urai has told the ... <a title="Call for legal shield for Fiji National Provident Fund in review hearing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/call-for-legal-shield-for-fiji-national-provident-fund-in-review-hearing/" aria-label="Read more about Call for legal shield for Fiji National Provident Fund in review hearing">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England A New Zealand policeman pushed over an elderly man who was doing nothing but waving a Palestinian flag at a solidarity rally in Ōtautahi yesterday. Yes the man employed to protect the public committed a violent assault. Not a wee shove, a great big push that caused the man to fall ... <a title="Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/why-we-need-protection-from-brutality-of-some-thuggish-nz-police/" aria-label="Read more about Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto This morning there is no article on the political page of The New Zealand Herald about the plight of people in Gaza, the same is the case at The Post and at RNZ. Even the 1News political page is Gaza free but what may stun you over a Sunday morning coffee ... <a title="Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when – but not now’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/gerard-otto-on-palestine-genocide-and-the-media-not-if-but-when-but-not-now/" aria-label="Read more about Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when – but not now’">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Elizabeth Tako Palin is one of five women contesting the Bougainville North women’s reserved seat next month. It was previously held by Amanda Masono, who has chosen to contest the open Atolls seat, which was once held by her father. The autonomous Papua New Guinea region is holding ... <a title="‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s seat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/16/i-believe-i-can-elizabeth-palin-runs-for-bougainville-north-womens-seat/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s seat">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Netanyahu’s mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under the West’s cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook If you thought Western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly two years into the genocide, you may be disappointed. As ... <a title="The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/the-west-is-in-panic-as-israels-plan-for-full-control-of-gaza-heralds-a-new-nakba/" aria-label="Read more about The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s pro-independence front, the FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front), has formally confirmed its “block rejection” of the French-sponsored Bougival project, signed last month. The pact has been presented as an agreement between all parties to serve as a guide for the French Pacific ... <a title="‘Full sovereignty and independence’: FLNKS rejects France’s Bougival project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/full-sovereignty-and-independence-flnks-rejects-frances-bougival-project/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Full sovereignty and independence’: FLNKS rejects France’s Bougival project">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand once earned praise for its “principled” and “independent” foreign policy. Think nuclear-free Pacific, for example. Yet that reputation doesn’t hold true when it comes to Gaza and the Palestinian desire and right to self-determination. Under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, states must take positive steps to prevent genocide. ... <a title="John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/john-hobbs-new-zealands-shameful-stance-on-israel/" aria-label="Read more about John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Asia Pacific Report It was a bit like the old days — the heyday of Aotearoa New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement in the 1980s, leading up to the Rarotonga Treaty for a nuclear free Pacific zone that was signed on 6 August 1985 just weeks after the Rainbow Warrior bombing. The New Zealand nuclear-free law followed ... <a title="Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/nagasaki-day-and-aro-valley-peace-talks-recall-nuke-free-heyday/" aria-label="Read more about Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network and another freelance journalist. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for ... <a title="Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israel-has-deliberate-strategy-of-killing-palestinian-journalists-like-anas-al-sharif-warns-un-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert">Read more</a>
