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August 4, 2025
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist New Zealand’s foreign minister says Cook Islanders are free to choose whether their country continues in free association with New Zealand. Winston Peters made the comment at a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the constitution of the Cook Islands in Auckland today. Peters attended the community event ... <a title="‘Right to choose’ key to Cook Islands-NZ relationship, says Peters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/right-to-choose-key-to-cook-islands-nz-relationship-says-peters/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Right to choose’ key to Cook Islands-NZ relationship, says Peters">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Clancy Overell, editor of The Betoota Advocate After years of sitting on the fence and looking the other way, the Australian media is today reckoning with the fact that showing basic sympathy towards the starving and war-weary people of Gaza is actually a very mainstream sentiment. This explosive moment of self-reflection has rocked ... <a title="Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend well beyond university lawns and Instagram" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/australian-media-faces-existential-crisis-after-realising-free-palestine-might-extend-well-beyond-university-lawns-and-instagram/" aria-label="Read more about Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend well beyond university lawns and Instagram">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The most important measure of the favourability or otherwise of the international economic environment is called a country’s ‘Terms of Trade’. This label essentially means ‘barter price’, reflecting that international trade is essentially one country’s barter with the rest of the world. (Digression. We note that such ‘barter’ is rarely the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – New Zealand’s highly favourable Terms of Trade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/keith-rankin-analysis-new-zealands-highly-favourable-terms-of-trade/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – New Zealand’s highly favourable Terms of Trade">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Rarotonga The Cook Islands Secretary of Culture Emile Kairua says people in his country are getting complacent about the use of Māori. Cook Islands Māori Language Week started on Sunday in New Zealand and will run until Saturday. Kairua said the language is at risk at the source. ... <a title="‘People have stopped using it’: Culture secretary warns of complacency over Cook Islands Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/people-have-stopped-using-it-culture-secretary-warns-of-complacency-over-cook-islands-maori/" aria-label="Read more about ‘People have stopped using it’: Culture secretary warns of complacency over Cook Islands Māori">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on the Israeli arms and surveillance industry, says Australian protesters are “outraged” not just by what Israel is doing in Gaza, but also by the Australian government’s “complicity”. Loewenstein, who also spoke at the rally, told Al Jazeera that Australia has, for many ... <a title="Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/palestine-surveillance-author-says-australian-protesters-outraged-by-israels-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
By Torika Tokalau, Local Democracy Reporter The sisters running Auckland’s first authentic Polynesian show for tourists say it’s not just for visitors, but also to help uplift Pacific people. Louisa Tipene Opetaia and Ama Mosese’s Glorious Tours was pooled as one of 10 new “Treasures of Tāmaki Makaurau”: a go-to guide by Tātaki Auckland Unlimited ... <a title="‘Glorious’ sisters showcase Auckland’s Polynesian experiences for tourists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/glorious-sisters-showcase-aucklands-polynesian-experiences-for-tourists/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Glorious’ sisters showcase Auckland’s Polynesian experiences for tourists">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand is lagging behind the rest of the world through its failure to recognise Palestinian statehood, says Former Prime Minister Helen Clark. Canada yesterday became the latest country to announce it would formally recognise the state of Palestine when world leaders met at the UN General ... <a title="NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says former PM Helen Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/nz-lagging-behind-world-by-failing-to-recognise-palestinian-statehood-says-former-pm-helen-clark/" aria-label="Read more about NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says former PM Helen Clark">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor A former New Caledonia Congress president says there are “not enough” benefits for Kanaks in a new “draft” agreement he signed alongside pro and anti-independence stakeholders in France last month. Roch Wamytan said that, after 10 days of deadlock discussions in Paris, he failed to secure the pro-independence ... <a title="Roch Wamytan: Paris political agreement for New Caledonia ‘not enough’ for Kanaks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/roch-wamytan-paris-political-agreement-for-new-caledonia-not-enough-for-kanaks/" aria-label="Read more about Roch Wamytan: Paris political agreement for New Caledonia ‘not enough’ for Kanaks">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk New Caledonia’s oldest pro-independence party, the Union Calédonienne (UC), has officially rejected a political agreement on the Pacific territory’s political future signed in Paris last month. The text, bearing the signatures of all of New Caledonia’s political parties represented in the local Congress — a total ... <a title="New Caledonia’s oldest party for independence rejects ‘Bougival’ deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/new-caledonias-oldest-party-for-independence-rejects-bougival-deal/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s oldest party for independence rejects ‘Bougival’ deal">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they were to blame over misinformation and the worsening catastrophe. Banging pots and pans to spotlight the starvation crisis, they accused the media of “complicity in genocide”. Banners and placards proclaimed ... <a title="As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/as-protesters-condemn-western-media-complicity-gaza-journalists-struggle-for-survival/" aria-label="Read more about As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivering a historic opinion last week affirming that states have binding legal obligations to protect the environment from human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. The case, hailed as a ... <a title="Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/climate-justice-victory-at-the-icj-the-student-journey-from-usp-lectures-to-the-hague/" aria-label="Read more about Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s population has shrunk to 264,596 over the past six years, the latest census, conducted in April and May 2025, has revealed. This compares to the previous census, conducted in 2019, which recorded a population of 271,400 in the French Pacific territory. To explain the ... <a title="New Caledonia’s population drops to below 265,000, census reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/new-caledonias-population-drops-to-below-265000-census-reveals/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s population drops to below 265,000, census reveals">Read more</a>
