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June 2, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I want to share a writer’s journey — of living and writing through the Genocide. Where I live and how I live could not be further from the horror playing out in Gaza and, increasingly, on the West Bank. Yet, because my country provides military, intelligence and diplomatic support to Israel ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/eugene-doyle-writing-in-the-time-of-the-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2025
By Muhammad Shehada Since the onset of its genocide, Israel has persistently pushed a narrative that the famine devastating Gaza is not of its own making, but the result of “Hamas looting aid”. This claim, repeated across mainstream media and parroted by officials, has been used to deflect responsibility for what many human rights experts ... <a title="How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza famine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/how-israel-manufactured-a-looting-crisis-to-cover-up-its-gaza-famine/" aria-label="Read more about How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza famine">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea has five months remaining to fix its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems or face the severe repercussions of being placed on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) “grey list”. The FATF has imposed an October 2025 deadline, and the government is scrambling ... <a title="PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/png-faces-deadline-for-fixing-issues-with-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing/" aria-label="Read more about PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Phil Goff “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s the result of government policy — knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated.” This statement was made not by a foreign or liberal critic of Israel but by the former Prime Minister ... <a title="Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people, children it’s killing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/01/phil-goff-israel-doesnt-care-how-many-innocent-people-children-its-killing/" aria-label="Read more about Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people, children it’s killing">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French national politicians have been in New Caledonia as the territory’s future remains undecided. Leaders from both right-wing Les Républicains (LR) and Rassemblement National (RN), — vice-president François-Xavier Bellamy and Marine Le Pen respectively — have been in the French Pacific territory this week. They expressed ... <a title="French politicians in New Caledonia to stir the political melting pot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/30/french-politicians-in-new-caledonia-to-stir-the-political-melting-pot/" aria-label="Read more about French politicians in New Caledonia to stir the political melting pot">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken a new approach towards bringing justice these crimes. The Paris-based global media freedom NGO has submitted multiple formal requests to the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking that Palestinian journalists who ... <a title="Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/radical-legal-step-towards-ending-impunity-for-israel-over-killing-gaza-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist Its official. Samoa’s Parliament will be dissolved next week and the country will have an early return to the polls. The confirmation comes after a dramatic day in Parliament on Tuesday, which saw the government’s budget voted down at its first reading. In a live address today, Prime Minister ... <a title="Samoa parliament to be dissolved in June, election date to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/samoa-parliament-to-be-dissolved-in-june-election-date-to-come/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa parliament to be dissolved in June, election date to come">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell When I despairingly contemplate the horrors and cruelty that Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to, I sometimes try to put this in the context of where I live. I live on the Kāpiti Coast in the lower North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Geographically it is around the same size ... <a title="Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/why-nz-must-act-against-israels-ethnic-cleansing-and-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Eighty years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the Second World War, the threat of nuclear fallout remains. Last Monday, the UN Human Rights Council issued a formal communication to the Japanese government regarding serious concerns raised by Pacific ... <a title="Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/activists-call-for-pacific-nuclear-justice-global-unity-and-victim-support/" aria-label="Read more about Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor Fiji cannot compete with Australia and New Zealand to retain its teachers, the man in charge of the country’s finances says. The Fijian education system is facing major challenges as the Sitiveni Rabuka-led coalition struggles to address a teacher shortage. While the education sector receives a significant chunk ... <a title="Fiji can’t compete with Australia and NZ on teacher salaries, says deputy PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/fiji-cant-compete-with-australia-and-nz-on-teacher-salaries-says-deputy-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji can’t compete with Australia and NZ on teacher salaries, says deputy PM">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie was honoured with Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) at the weekend by the Governor-General, Dame Cindy Kiro, in an investiture ceremony at Government House Tāmaki Makaurau. He was one of eight recipients for various honours, which included Joycelyn Armstrong, who was presented ... <a title="Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/asia-pacific-report-editor-honoured-for-contribution-to-pacific-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2025
A public health expert is urging anyone travelling to places in the Pacific with a current dengue fever outbreak to be vigilant and take sensible precautions — but stresses the chances of contracting the disease are low. On Friday, the Cook Islands declared an outbreak of the viral infection, which is spread by mosquitoes, in ... <a title="Pacific dengue cases surge but don’t cancel your holiday yet, says health expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/25/pacific-dengue-cases-surge-but-dont-cancel-your-holiday-yet-says-health-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific dengue cases surge but don’t cancel your holiday yet, says health expert">Read more</a>
