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ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and its storytellers

April 20, 2023

Introducing ABC’s The Pacific – first episode.  Video: ABC News SPECIAL REPORT: By ABC Backstory editor Natasha Johnson When Tahlea Aualiitia talks about hosting the ABC’s new Pacific-focused news and current affairs TV programme, The Pacific, her voice breaks and she becomes emotional. Personally, it’s a career milestone, anchoring her first TV show after a ... <a title="ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and its storytellers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/20/abc-launches-new-tv-show-the-pacific-and-its-storytellers/" aria-label="Read more about ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and its storytellers">Read more</a>

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ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and their storytellers

April 11, 2023

Introducing ABC’s The Pacific – first episode.  Video: ABC SPECIAL REPORT: By ABC Backstory editor Natasha Johnson When Tahlea Aualiitia talks about hosting the ABC’s new Pacific-focused news and current affairs TV programme, The Pacific, her voice breaks and she becomes emotional. Personally, it’s a career milestone, anchoring her first TV show after a decade ... <a title="ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and their storytellers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/abc-launches-new-tv-show-the-pacific-and-their-storytellers/" aria-label="Read more about ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and their storytellers">Read more</a>

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‘Step up’ over Carterets food crisis, PNG minister warns rich nations

June 4, 2021

By Richard Ewart on ABC’s Pacific Beat Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Climate Change is calling on the international community to take responsibility for a food security crisis in the Carteret Islands, and some of the other remote atolls of Bougainville. Minister Wera Mori recently returned from a fact finding mission to the region and ... <a title="‘Step up’ over Carterets food crisis, PNG minister warns rich nations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/step-up-over-carterets-food-crisis-png-minister-warns-rich-nations/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Step up’ over Carterets food crisis, PNG minister warns rich nations">Read more</a>

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Tonga drops five places in world free press rankings – ‘keep fighting’ call

May 4, 2020

Tonga has fallen five places to lie 50th in this year’s World Press Freedom Index. In last year’s index, compiled by the Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), it was 45th out of 180 countries. Tonga’s highest ranking was in 2016 when RSF placed it 37th. READ MORE: Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, ... <a title="Tonga drops five places in world free press rankings – ‘keep fighting’ call" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/04/tonga-drops-five-places-in-world-free-press-rankings-keep-fighting-call/" aria-label="Read more about Tonga drops five places in world free press rankings – ‘keep fighting’ call">Read more</a>