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August 28, 2025
Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet ministers in an open letter to “act decisively” to protect Gaza journalists and a free press. “These are principles to which New Zealand has always laid claim and which are ... <a title="NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/nz-media-workers-call-for-decisive-action-by-luxon-over-gaza-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney The grim facts should speak for themselves. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has deliberately killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Those brave individuals are smeared as Hamas operatives and terrorists by Israel and its supporters. But the real story behind this, beyond just Western racism and dehumanisation ... <a title="Antony Lowenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/antony-lowenstein-israels-murderous-killing-spree-against-palestinian-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Antony Lowenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
By Asiye Latife Yilmaz in Istanbul Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticising the news agency’s stance on Gaza as a “betrayal of journalists” and accusing it of “justifying and enabling” the killing of 245 journalists in the Palestinian enclave. “At this point it’s become impossible for me to maintain ... <a title="Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/photojournalist-resigns-from-reuters-over-its-betrayal-of-journalists-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
Pacific Media Watch An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel’s trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies covering the war on Gaza as treating Palestinian reporters like “robots”. “You see how Palestinian journalists are treated. There’s no protection when they are alive,” Hind Khoudary told Al Jazeera ... <a title="Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of latest Israeli killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/palestinian-journalists-treated-like-robots-by-western-media-says-gaza-reporter-in-wake-of-latest-israeli-killings/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of latest Israeli killings">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Prime Minister François Bayrou’s surprise announcement yesterday that he will call for a parliamentary confidence vote in his government is set to further complicate protracted talks in New Caledonia on the French territory’s political future. The announcement comes as French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls ... <a title="French PM’s confidence vote hits New Caledonia’s political negotiations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/french-pms-confidence-vote-hits-new-caledonias-political-negotiations/" aria-label="Read more about French PM’s confidence vote hits New Caledonia’s political negotiations">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
By Pip Hinman and Alex Bainbridge of Green Left More than 200,000 people took the streets across Australia on Saturday in a national day of action demanding that the Labor government sanctions Israel and stops the two-way arms trade. It comes after 300,000 people marched, in driving rain, across Sydney Harbour Bridge on August 3 ... <a title="200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends arms trade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/200000-plus-march-in-australia-to-demand-canberra-sanctions-israel-ends-arms-trade/" aria-label="Read more about 200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends arms trade">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2025
By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor has vowed not to be silenced despite years of threats, harassment and even a bomb attack on his home. The 51-year-old founder and editor-in-chief of Jubi, West Papua’s leading media outlet, was in Fiji this week, where he spoke exclusively to The Fiji Times about ... <a title="Bombs fail to silence West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/bombs-fail-to-silence-west-papuan-journalist-victor-mambor/" aria-label="Read more about Bombs fail to silence West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Three media spokespeople addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality of news reporting about the world’s biggest genocide crisis this century. Speakers at other locations around the country also condemned what they said was biased media coverage. The critics said ... <a title="Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/rallies-across-nz-honour-gaza-strip-journalists-condemn-own-news-media/" aria-label="Read more about Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Protesters in their thousands have been taking to the streets in Aotearoa New Zealand demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine and against genocide for the past 97 weeks. Yet rarely have the protests across the motu made headlines — or even the news for that matter — unlike the larger demonstrations ... <a title="Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and West Bank" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/23/facing-up-to-genocide-a-new-zealand-journalist-bears-witness-with-gaza-and-west-bank/" aria-label="Read more about Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and West Bank">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2025
By Andrew Mathieson Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji — in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity — to hold the greater Pacific region to account and stand against Indonesia’s ongoing media blackout in addition to its human rights abuses. The leaders in their field which include two Papuans from Indonesia’s occupied provinces have ... <a title="West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/west-papuan-media-plea-for-melanesian-support-against-indonesian-media-blackout/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2025
RNZ News New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for “immediate and independent” foreign media access to Gaza. Earlier this month, an Israeli strike in the city killed six journalists — four Al Jazeera correspondents and cameramen, and two other media workers. The Israeli military admitted in a statement to ... <a title="NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/nz-joins-calls-for-urgent-independent-foreign-media-access-to-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2025
Pacific Media Watch “Speak Up Kōrerotia” — a radio show centred on human rights issues — has featured a nuclear-free Pacific and other issues in this week’s show. Encouraging discussion on human rights issues in both Canterbury and New Zealand, Speak Up Kōrerotia offers a forum to provide a voice for affected communities. Engaging in ... <a title="Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/21/nuclear-free-pacific-advocates-speak-out-in-nz-human-rights-radio-show/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show">Read more</a>
