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July 22, 2020
An interview with filmmaker Anna Marbrook on the making of Loimata. Video: Tagata Pasifika/Sunpix DOCUMENTARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, who talks to Jim Marbrook about the making of Loimata – The Sweetest Tears. Loimata isn’t just a true story of one of the Pacific’s great waka builders and sailors that has been captured in a stirring ... <a title="Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka voyaging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/22/loimata-a-poignant-family-to-family-story-of-the-revival-of-waka-voyaging/" aria-label="Read more about Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka voyaging">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis in Sydney The man with his hands on the tiller of the Fijian economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has always been a great admirer of Gough Whitlam’s “crash through or crash” approach to leadership and never more so than with the F$3.67 billion budget he announced on Friday night. Allowing for a sobering ... <a title="Graham Davis: Fiji’s great ‘crash through or crash’ budget is counting on a tourism bubble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/19/graham-davis-fijis-great-crash-through-or-crash-budget-is-counting-on-a-tourism-bubble/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Fiji’s great ‘crash through or crash’ budget is counting on a tourism bubble">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce in the first of a series What is the purpose of an economy? I realised this morning that it is 7 years since I made my documentary Mind The Gap in which I unpacked the socially disastrous consequences of the neoliberal economic agenda, introduced by the 4th Labour government led by ... <a title="Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal agendas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/bryan-bruce-economics-and-the-nz-election-unpacking-neoliberal-agendas/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal agendas">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2020
Al Jazeera’s documentary on the plight of migrant workers during covid-19 lockdown. ANALYSIS: By Ross Tapsell, of the Australian National University The recent police interrogations of six Al Jazeera journalists in Malaysia – five of whom are Australian – was not about shaping international reportage or a diplomatic rift. Rather, it was part of a ... <a title="Malaysia’s media crackdowns driven by a shaky, sensitive government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/15/malaysias-media-crackdowns-driven-by-a-shaky-sensitive-government/" aria-label="Read more about Malaysia’s media crackdowns driven by a shaky, sensitive government">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2020
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific Correspondent The Cook Islands government’s inaccurate and startling announcement yesterday about a tourism bubble opening with New Zealand as soon as next week has done more harm than good. Clearly a failed attempt at trying to force Jacinda Ardern’s hand into giving a date now and using mouthpiece media ... <a title="Barbara Dreaver: Cook Islands travel bubble pressure a bid to ‘strong arm’ Ardern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/15/barbara-dreaver-cook-islands-travel-bubble-pressure-a-bid-to-strong-arm-ardern/" aria-label="Read more about Barbara Dreaver: Cook Islands travel bubble pressure a bid to ‘strong arm’ Ardern">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce The selection of Judith Collins by her colleagues as the new leader of New Zealand’s opposition National Party is a last minute throw of the political dice that might just save the Right from splintering at the upcoming election. One of the problems of the political Left over the last 30 ... <a title="Bryan Bruce: Judith Collins selection last throw of the dice to save the Right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/15/bryan-bruce-judith-collins-selection-last-throw-of-the-dice-to-save-the-right/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Bruce: Judith Collins selection last throw of the dice to save the Right">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Liam Hehir The detailed reasons for opposition National Party leader Todd Muller’s shock resignation are something we are not yet given to know. At this point, anything other than the statement made by Muller himself is nothing more than speculation. The announcement was a bolt from the blue even for those working closely ... <a title="Muller’s ‘bolt from blue’ resignation leaves election hoardings standing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/mullers-bolt-from-blue-resignation-leaves-election-hoardings-standing/" aria-label="Read more about Muller’s ‘bolt from blue’ resignation leaves election hoardings standing">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
COMMENT: By Benny Wenda, chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua For over 50 years, Indonesia has been promising West Papua “autonomy”. Each time, underneath autonomy lies only bullets and killings. As the 2001 Special Autonomy law expires this year, the United Liberation Movement (ULMWP) and all the people of West Papua are ... <a title="Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/benny-wenda-a-referendum-not-autonomy-only-west-papua-solution/" aria-label="Read more about Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne Australia’s Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules. It then paid for them to stay in hotels with security guards. Some of the guards couldn’t keep their dicks in their pants. Some of the returned travellers broke the rules. It then ... <a title="Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is taking over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/nasya-bahfen-some-broke-the-rules-and-the-covid-enemy-is-taking-over/" aria-label="Read more about Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is taking over">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A Papuan church leader and advocate for social justice has penned an open letter to the Indonesian government calling for justice and an end to racism to enable a genuine self-determination process for the Melanesian region. “The problem of Papua has become increasingly complex and severe because the root of the ... <a title="Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/open-letter-to-jakarta-papuan-self-determination-isnt-special-autonomy-v2/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2020
I write this as a Papua New Guinean and a daughter of this nation. I believe in the rights of women. I believe that the Constitution of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, the Mama Lo, safeguards the place of women in our nation. I understand the strengths and limitations of our cultures and ... <a title="Dame Meg Taylor: We must act now over gender-based violence in PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/02/dame-meg-taylor-we-must-act-now-over-gender-based-violence-in-png/" aria-label="Read more about Dame Meg Taylor: We must act now over gender-based violence in PNG">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was actually Brazil, or Texas. The media language has been full of claims of “botches” at the border, and laxness and inexcusable errors that amounted to a “national disgrace.” Amid all ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/gordon-campbell-media-collusion-with-nationals-attack-lines-the-real-disgrace/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace">Read more</a>
