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Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents

April 13, 2025

ANALYSIS: By Jane McAdam, UNSW Sydney The details of a new visa enabling Tuvaluan citizens to permanently migrate to Australia were released this week. The visa was created as part of a bilateral treaty Australia and Tuvalu signed in late 2023, which aims to protect the two countries’ shared interests in security, prosperity and stability, ... <a title="Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/fresh-details-emerge-on-australias-new-climate-migration-visa-for-tuvalu-residents/" aria-label="Read more about Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents">Read more</a>

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Caitlin Johnstone: Israel’s innocent oopsie-poopsie medical massacre mistake

April 12, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Israeli military changed its story many times about why its forces killed 15 medical workers and then buried them and their vehicles to hide the evidence. After their initial claim that the medical vehicles were approaching “suspiciously” without their emergency lights ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Israel’s innocent oopsie-poopsie medical massacre mistake" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/12/caitlin-johnstone-israels-innocent-oopsie-poopsie-medical-massacre-mistake/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Israel’s innocent oopsie-poopsie medical massacre mistake">Read more</a>

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Open letter to NZME board – don’t allow alt-right Canadian billionaire to take over NZ’s Fourth Estate

April 8, 2025

NZME directors ‘have concerns’ about businessman Jim Grenon taking editorial control NZME’s directors have fired their own shots in the war for control of the media company, saying they have concerns about a takeover bid including the risk of businessman Jim Grenon taking editorial control. In a statement to the NZX, the board said it ... <a title="Open letter to NZME board – don’t allow alt-right Canadian billionaire to take over NZ’s Fourth Estate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/08/open-letter-to-nzme-board-dont-allow-alt-right-canadian-billionaire-to-take-over-nzs-fourth-estate/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to NZME board – don’t allow alt-right Canadian billionaire to take over NZ’s Fourth Estate">Read more</a>

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Caitlin Johnstone: Hamas succeeded in exposing the true face of the empire

April 7, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone One thing October 7 did accomplish was getting Israel and its allies to show the world their true face. Getting them to stand before all of humanity to say, “If you resist us, we’ll kill your babies. We’ll deliberately shoot your kids ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Hamas succeeded in exposing the true face of the empire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/07/caitlin-johnstone-hamas-succeeded-in-exposing-the-true-face-of-the-empire/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Hamas succeeded in exposing the true face of the empire">Read more</a>

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Ian Powell: When apartheid met Zionism – the case for NZ recognising Palestine as a state

April 6, 2025

COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell The 1981 Springbok Tour was one of the most controversial events in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history. For 56 days, between July and September, more than 150,000 people took part in more than 200 demonstrations in 28 centres. It was the largest protest in the country’s history. It caused social ruptures within ... <a title="Ian Powell: When apartheid met Zionism – the case for NZ recognising Palestine as a state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/06/ian-powell-when-apartheid-met-zionism-the-case-for-nz-recognising-palestine-as-a-state/" aria-label="Read more about Ian Powell: When apartheid met Zionism – the case for NZ recognising Palestine as a state">Read more</a>

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With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list

April 5, 2025

While public opinion of Israel plummets, each day the genocide continues without significant repercussions only reinforces that they can ignore this opinion, writes Alex Foley. SPECIAL REPORT: By Alex Foley Israel announced that Hossam Shabat was a “terrorist” alongside six other Palestinian journalists. Hossam predicted they would assassinate him. He survived several attempts on his ... <a title="With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/05/with-hasbara-failing-israel-placed-hossam-shabat-on-a-kill-list/" aria-label="Read more about With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list">Read more</a>

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NZ’s refreshingly candid ex-envoy Phil Goff – why I spoke out on Trump

April 4, 2025

Now that Phil Goff has ended his term as New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the UK, he is officially free to speak his mind on the damage he believes the Trump Administration is doing to the world. He has started with these comments he made on the betrayal of Ukraine by the new Administration. By ... <a title="NZ’s refreshingly candid ex-envoy Phil Goff – why I spoke out on Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/04/nzs-refreshingly-candid-ex-envoy-phil-goff-why-i-spoke-out-on-trump/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s refreshingly candid ex-envoy Phil Goff – why I spoke out on Trump">Read more</a>

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New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with US hit hardest

April 3, 2025

ANALYSIS: By Niven Winchester, Auckland University of Technology We now have a clearer picture of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and how they will affect other trading nations, including the United States itself. The US administration claims these tariffs on imports will reduce the US trade deficit and address what it views as unfair and ... <a title="New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with US hit hardest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/03/new-modelling-reveals-full-impact-of-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-with-us-hit-hardest/" aria-label="Read more about New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with US hit hardest">Read more</a>

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It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West Bank plans

April 1, 2025

“I started filming when we started to end.” With these haunting words, Basel Adra begins No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary that depicts life in Masafer Yatta, a collection of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank that are under complete occupation – military and civil – by Israel. For Basel and his community, this ... <a title="It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West Bank plans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/it-will-take-more-than-an-oscar-to-stop-israels-west-bank-plans/" aria-label="Read more about It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West Bank plans">Read more</a>

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Gavin Ellis: Forensic detail on NZME but where are the guarantees?

March 28, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – KNIGHTLY VIEWS: By Gavin Ellis Excoriating is the word that may best describe expat Canadian James Grenon’s 11-page critique of NZME. His forensic examination of the board he hopes to replace and the company’s performance is a sobering read. You may not have seen the letter. ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Forensic detail on NZME but where are the guarantees?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/28/gavin-ellis-forensic-detail-on-nzme-but-where-are-the-guarantees/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Forensic detail on NZME but where are the guarantees?">Read more</a>

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Trump silences Voice of America – end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?

March 26, 2025

ANALYSIS: By Valerie A. Cooper, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Of all the contradictions and ironies of Donald Trump’s second presidency so far, perhaps the most surprising has been his shutting down the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for being “radical propaganda”. Critics have long accused the agency — and its ... <a title="Trump silences Voice of America – end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/trump-silences-voice-of-america-end-of-a-propaganda-machine-or-void-for-china-and-russia-to-fill/" aria-label="Read more about Trump silences Voice of America – end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?">Read more</a>

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Pro-Palestinian protesters challenge NZ’s Winston Peters at state of the nation speech

March 24, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Like a relentless ocean, wave after wave of pro-Palestinian pro-human rights protesters disrupted New Zealand deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters’ state of the nation speech at the Christchurch Town Hall yesterday. A clarion call to Trumpism and Australia’s One Nation Party, the speech was accompanied by ... <a title="Pro-Palestinian protesters challenge NZ’s Winston Peters at state of the nation speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/24/pro-palestinian-protesters-challenge-nzs-winston-peters-at-state-of-the-nation-speech/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-Palestinian protesters challenge NZ’s Winston Peters at state of the nation speech">Read more</a>