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January 27, 2025
ANALYSIS: By David Lowe, Deakin University; Andrew Singleton, Deakin University, and Joanna Cruickshank, Deakin University After many years of heated debate over whether January 26 is an appropriate date to celebrate Australia Day — with some councils and other groups shifting away from it — the tide appears to be turning among some groups. Some ... <a title="Support for changing date of Australia Day softens, but remains strong among young people — new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/27/support-for-changing-date-of-australia-day-softens-but-remains-strong-among-young-people-new-research/" aria-label="Read more about Support for changing date of Australia Day softens, but remains strong among young people — new research">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2023
By Pita Ligaiula of Pacnews Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa says the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is focused on how they will approach the next seven years to achieve the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Addressing the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development in New York on behalf ... <a title="Samoa PM calls on world leaders to ‘leave nationalism behind’ to achieve UN sustainability goals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/21/samoa-pm-calls-on-world-leaders-to-leave-nationalism-behind-to-achieve-un-sustainability-goals/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa PM calls on world leaders to ‘leave nationalism behind’ to achieve UN sustainability goals">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2021
LIVE PODCST: In this episode of A View from Afar political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss how security threats present themselves in a multitude of forms. This week we look at a threat that mixes belief with nationalism. This threat is most obvious in its homeland where the movement was conceived. But its ... <a title="Live Episode: How Hindutva rightwing nationalism is concerning Indian communities around the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/07/scheduled-live-midday-thurs-sept-30-how-hindutva-rightwing-nationalism-is-concerning-indian-communities-around-the-world/" aria-label="Read more about Live Episode: How Hindutva rightwing nationalism is concerning Indian communities around the world">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. We have this pretty fiction that the world is made up of approximately 200 politically autonomous nation-states. This in the entrenched ‘Wilsonian’ view of the political world that, in particular, was sort-of realised after World War One; a view that rendered the national empires (such as the British Empire) of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Fundamentalism in our Post-Globalisation Era" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/03/keith-rankin-essay-territorial-fundamentalism-in-our-post-globalisation-era/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Fundamentalism in our Post-Globalisation Era">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2019
By the Asia Media Centre Up to 193 million eligible voters in Indonesia will go to the polls today, in what will be the world’s largest single-day election. The election will see incumbent president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo go head-to-head with Prabowo Subianto, a former general in the Indonesian armed forces who lost to Jokowi in ... <a title="Indonesian election: ‘Our most disregarded Pacific neighbour’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/17/indonesian-election-our-most-disregarded-pacific-neighbour/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian election: ‘Our most disregarded Pacific neighbour’">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2019
Indonesian army and police gather villagers in several sub-districts in Nduga and try to force them to “admit” to accusations that they are members of the pro-independence West Papua National Liberation Army (WPNLA). Video: Cafe Pacific By David Robie A human rights defender and researcher has warned in a new book published on the eve ... <a title="Indonesia’s political system has ‘failed’ its minorities – like West Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/16/indonesias-political-system-has-failed-minorities-like-papua-says-author/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia’s political system has ‘failed’ its minorities – like West Papuans">Read more</a>