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August 5, 2021
By Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi in Apia Veteran Samoan parliamentarian and chairman of the Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) has criticised what he characterises as the “extreme” and “defamatory” behaviour of the former Prime Minister of Samoa since losing government. Speaking during his programme Ia Ao Samoa yesterday, La’auli Leuatea Schmidt said he ... <a title="La’auli condemns Tuila’epa’s ‘extreme behavour’ in losing office in Samoa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/05/laauli-condemns-tuilaepas-extreme-behavour-in-losing-office-in-samoa/" aria-label="Read more about La’auli condemns Tuila’epa’s ‘extreme behavour’ in losing office in Samoa">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2021
COMMENT: By Melani Anae When the Polynesian Panthers (PPP) activist group began calling for an apology for the Dawn Raids two years ago, we went into the process with eyes wide open. Government lobbyists seldom get everything they ask for, but our intent was honest and real and fuelled by our Panther legacy and love ... <a title="Ardern’s apology to Pacific peoples just the beginning – we will fight on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/05/arderns-apology-to-pacific-peoples-just-the-beginning-we-will-fight-on/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern’s apology to Pacific peoples just the beginning – we will fight on">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie It is open season again for Indonesian trolls targeting Asia Pacific Report and other media with fake news and disinformation dispatches in a crude attempt to gloss over human rights violations. Just three months ago I wrote about this issue in my “Dear editor” article exposing the disinformation campaign. There ... <a title="Open season again for Indonesian military trolls and ‘fake news’ campaign on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/open-season-again-for-indonesian-military-trolls-and-fake-news-campaign-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Open season again for Indonesian military trolls and ‘fake news’ campaign on West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today delivered the government’s apology for the Dawn Raids against Pasifika overstayers. She apologised for the raids in the 1970s which happened under both Labour and National governments. “The government expresses its sorrow, remorse and regret that the Dawn Raids and random police checks occurred and that ... <a title="NZ government makes apology over Dawn Raids targeting Pasifika" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/02/nz-government-makes-apology-over-dawn-raids-targeting-pasifika/" aria-label="Read more about NZ government makes apology over Dawn Raids targeting Pasifika">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University The arrest of nine Fijian opposition politicians, including party leaders and two former prime ministers, once again exposes Fijian democracy’s fragility. The intimidation doesn’t bode well for the parliamentary elections due next year (or early 2023). The political crisis has been overshadowed by Fiji’s covid-19 crisis, which has ... <a title="Fiji’s other crisis – away from the covid emergency, political dissent can still get you arrested" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/fijis-other-crisis-away-from-the-covid-emergency-political-dissent-can-still-get-you-arrested/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s other crisis – away from the covid emergency, political dissent can still get you arrested">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The co-leader of New Zealand’s minority Māori Party has launched a blistering attack on white privilege and the opposition National Party which it accuses of “igniting racism” in the framing of a debate about radical political change. In a provocative introduction to her weekly column in The New Zealand Herald today, ... <a title="Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white privilege" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/maori-party-calls-for-indigenous-debate-to-address-nz-racism-white-privilege/" aria-label="Read more about Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white privilege">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk After his release from prison in South Africa and he became inaugural president of the majority rule government with the abolition of apartheid, Nelson Mandela declared in a speech in 1997: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Founding Halt All Racist Tours ... <a title="1981 Springbok tour protests revisited – and now Palestine is the new struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/28/1981-springbok-tour-protests-revisited-and-now-palestine-is-the-new-struggle/" aria-label="Read more about 1981 Springbok tour protests revisited – and now Palestine is the new struggle">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2021
By Lanuola Tusani Tupufia-Ah Tong in Apia Samoa’s Court of Appeal ruled today that the Faatuatua ile Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party was the country’s new government bringing three months of political stalemate to a close. The court, the highest in the country, found that a swearing-in ceremony conducted by the party on the ... <a title="Samoa’s highest court declares FAST government legal – impasse ends" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/23/samoas-highest-court-declares-fast-government-legal-impasse-ends/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s highest court declares FAST government legal – impasse ends">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2021
By Irfan Kamil in Jakarta Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has condemned the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) under the leadership of Firli Bahuri as an “authoritarian and anti-criticism” institution over the Greenpeace laser protest. ICW researcher Kurnia Ramadhana said this after the KPK had reported Greenpeace Indonesia to the South Jakarta district police (Polres) for laser ... <a title="Reporting Greenpeace to police shows KPK has become authoritarian, says watchdog" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/23/reporting-greenpeace-to-police-shows-kpk-has-become-authoritarian-says-watchdog/" aria-label="Read more about Reporting Greenpeace to police shows KPK has become authoritarian, says watchdog">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura The West Papuan Council of Churches (WPCC) has condemned the Indonesian government’s Special Autonomy (Otsus) law ratified by the Jakarta parliament last week, describing it as racist and warning that Papuans could “become extinct”. The WPCC was speaking in an online forum organised by the International Coalition for Papua (ICP) last ... <a title="‘We’ll be extinct,’ warns West Papuan churches, call for halt to ‘racist’ Otsus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/well-be-extinct-warns-west-papuan-churches-call-for-halt-to-racist-otsus/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’ll be extinct,’ warns West Papuan churches, call for halt to ‘racist’ Otsus">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk As many as 714,066 Papuans and 112 organisations which are part of the Papuan People’s Petition (PRP) have rejected last week’s enactment into law of revisions to Law Number 21/2001 on Papua Special Autonomy (Otsus), reports CNN Indonesia. They believe that special autonomy is not the answer to resolving the problems ... <a title="714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/714000-papuans-112-organisations-oppose-failed-special-autonomy-law/" aria-label="Read more about 714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
By Jean-Pierre Viatge in Pape’ete Fifteen days after Tahiti Nui’s anti-nuclear protest on July 2, the Tavini Huiraatira party has organised a march Mā’ohi Lives Matter this weekend with support from the Mā’ohi Protestant Church, Association 193 and Moruroa e Tatou. Former territorial president of Tahiti and pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has called for an ... <a title="Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/temaru-calls-for-massive-turnout-for-maohi-lives-matter-nuclear-free-rally/" aria-label="Read more about Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally">Read more</a>
