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June 2, 2024
By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies expecting change in the face of New Zealand’s NewsHub closure next month. The organisation has content-sharing agreements with traditional NZ media organisations including Stuff, New Zealand Herald, RNZ and TVNZ, ... <a title="Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/newshub-closures-creating-waves-of-change-across-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2024
RNZ Pacific New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says “calm wise heads” are needed to sort out the crisis in New Caledonia. A security force of more than 3000 personnel — more than half of them flown in from France — have returned to the capital Nouméa of the French territory to restore a sense ... <a title="NZ foreign minister Peters calls for ‘calm wise heads’ in New Caledonia crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/01/nz-foreign-minister-peters-calls-for-calm-wise-heads-in-new-caledonia-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about NZ foreign minister Peters calls for ‘calm wise heads’ in New Caledonia crisis">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Three Nouméa municipal policemen are now facing a prosecution after a disturbing video was posted in a Facebook neighbourhood watch group, allegedly implicating them in acts of severe violence against a Kanak man they had just arrested. The municipal police officers are not part of the ... <a title="Three Nouméa police officers face prosecution after viral violent video" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/30/three-noumea-police-officers-face-prosecution-after-viral-violent-video/" aria-label="Read more about Three Nouméa police officers face prosecution after viral violent video">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand solidarity group for Palestine with a focus on settler colonialism has condemned the latest atrocities by the Israeli military in its attack on Rafah — in defiance of the International Court of Justice order last Friday to halt the assault — and also French brutality in Kanaky New Caledonia. ... <a title="Palestine solidarity group condemns ‘colonial violence’ in Rafah, Kanaky" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/palestine-solidarity-group-condemns-colonial-violence-in-rafah-kanaky/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine solidarity group condemns ‘colonial violence’ in Rafah, Kanaky">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist Jessie Ounei is following in her mum’s footsteps as a Kanak pro-independence activist. Last Wednesday, Ounei organised a rally outside the French Embassy in Wellington to “shed light on what is happening in New Caledonia“. She said there was not enough information, and the information that had been reported ... <a title="‘I can’t just stand back’: Kanak pro-independence activist follows mum’s footsteps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/i-cant-just-stand-back-kanak-pro-independence-activist-follows-mums-footsteps/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I can’t just stand back’: Kanak pro-independence activist follows mum’s footsteps">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Teanau Tuiono There is an important story to be told behind the story Aotearoa New Zealand’s mainstream media has been reporting on in Kanaky New Caledonia. Beyond the efforts to evacuate New Zealanders lies a struggle for indigenous sovereignty and self-determination we here in Aotearoa can relate to. Aotearoa is part of a ... <a title="New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/28/new-zealands-role-in-helping-bring-peace-to-kanaky-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The Daily Blog, New Zealand’s most important leftwing website of news, views and analyses at the heart of the country’s most conservative mediascape in years, has been hacked. It was silenced yesterday for several hours but is back up and running today. The Daily Blog editor and founder Martyn Bradbury launched the ... <a title="The Daily Blog hacked – NZ’s most important left media outlet silenced for a day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/28/the-daily-blog-hacked-nzs-most-important-left-media-outlet-silenced-for-a-day/" aria-label="Read more about The Daily Blog hacked – NZ’s most important left media outlet silenced for a day">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2024
Alex Bainbridge talks to David Robie on Kanaky and settler colonialism. Video: Green Left Green Left Show Indigenous Kanaks in Kanaky (New Caledonia) have sprung into revolt in the last two weeks in response to moves by the colonial power France to undermine moves towards independence in the Pacific territory. Journalist David Robie from Aotearoa ... <a title="French repressive policies in New Caledonia have ‘betrayed’ Kanak hopes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/27/french-repressive-policies-in-new-caledonia-have-betrayed-kanak-hopes/" aria-label="Read more about French repressive policies in New Caledonia have ‘betrayed’ Kanak hopes">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestinian protesters today condemned Google for sacking protesting staff and demanded that the New Zealand government immediately “cut ties with Israeli genocide”. Wearing Google logo masks and holding placards saying “Google complicit in genocide” and “Google drop Project Nimbus”, the protesters were targeting the global tech company for sacking more than two ... <a title="Palestine protesters condemn Google, demand NZ action over Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/27/palestine-protesters-condemn-google-demand-nz-action-over-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters condemn Google, demand NZ action over Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan independence group has condemned French “modern-day colonialism in action” in Kanaky New Caledonia and urged indigenous leaders to “fight on”. In a statement to the Kanak pro-independence leadership, exiled United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) president Benny Wenda said the proposed electoral changes being debated in the French ... <a title="West Papua independence group slams French ‘modern-day colonialism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/26/west-papua-independence-group-slams-french-modern-day-colonialism/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua independence group slams French ‘modern-day colonialism’">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2024
Asia Pacific Report By a Kanak from Aotearoa New Zealand in Kanaky I’ve been trying to feel cool and nice on this beautiful sunny day in Kanaky. But it has already been spoiled by President Emmanuel Macron’s flashy day-long visit on Thursday. Currently special French military forces are trying to take full control of the ... <a title="Open letter from Kanaky: Things are really bad, we need to speed up decolonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/26/open-letter-from-kanaky-things-are-really-bad-we-need-to-speed-up-decolonisation/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter from Kanaky: Things are really bad, we need to speed up decolonisation">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Pro-Palestinian protesters dressed in blue “press” vests tonight staged a vigil calling on New Zealand journalists to show solidarity with the media of Gaza who have suffered the highest death toll in any war. They staged the vigil at the Viaduct venue of NZ’s annual Voyager Media Awards. Organised by Palestinian Youth ... <a title="Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/25/palestine-protesters-call-for-gaza-press-solidarity-at-nz-media-awards/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards">Read more</a>
