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June 5, 2025
RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament has confirmed the unprecedented punishments proposed for opposition indigenous Te Pāti Māori MPs who performed a haka in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill. Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi will be suspended for 21 days, and MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke suspended for seven days, taking effect ... <a title="Punishment for Te Pāti Māori over Treaty haka stands – but MPs ‘will not be silenced’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/punishment-for-te-pati-maori-over-treaty-haka-stands-but-mps-will-not-be-silenced/" aria-label="Read more about Punishment for Te Pāti Māori over Treaty haka stands – but MPs ‘will not be silenced’">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Taieri MP Ingrid Leary reflected on her years in Fiji as a television journalist and media educator at a Fiji Centre function in Auckland celebrating Fourth Estate values and independence at the weekend. It was a reunion with former journalism professor David Robie — they had worked together as a team at ... <a title="Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education gets airing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/fiji-coup-culture-and-political-meddling-in-media-education-gets-airing/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education gets airing">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I want to share a writer’s journey — of living and writing through the Genocide. Where I live and how I live could not be further from the horror playing out in Gaza and, increasingly, on the West Bank. Yet, because my country provides military, intelligence and diplomatic support to Israel ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/eugene-doyle-writing-in-the-time-of-the-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken a new approach towards bringing justice these crimes. The Paris-based global media freedom NGO has submitted multiple formal requests to the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking that Palestinian journalists who ... <a title="Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/radical-legal-step-towards-ending-impunity-for-israel-over-killing-gaza-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell When I despairingly contemplate the horrors and cruelty that Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to, I sometimes try to put this in the context of where I live. I live on the Kāpiti Coast in the lower North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Geographically it is around the same size ... <a title="Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/why-nz-must-act-against-israels-ethnic-cleansing-and-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinea’s state broadcaster NBC wants shortwave radio reintroduced to achieve the government’s goal of 100 percent broadcast coverage by 2030. Last week, the broadcaster hosted a workshop on the reintroduction of shortwave radio transmission, bringing together key government agencies and other stakeholders. NBC had previously a ... <a title="Papua New Guinea seeks ‘fast track’ advice on resurrecting shortwave radio" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/papua-new-guinea-seeks-fast-track-advice-on-resurrecting-shortwave-radio/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea seeks ‘fast track’ advice on resurrecting shortwave radio">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2025
By Stanley Simpson in Suva I am saddened by the death of one of the most inspirational Pacific women and leaders I have worked with — Motarilavoa Hilda Lini of Vanuatu. She was one of the strongest, most committed passionate fighter I know for self-determination, decolonisation, independence, indigenous rights, customary systems and a nuclear-free Pacific. ... <a title="Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/27/motarilavoa-hilda-lini-strong-passionate-fighter-for-decolonisation-nuclear-free-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie was honoured with Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) at the weekend by the Governor-General, Dame Cindy Kiro, in an investiture ceremony at Government House Tāmaki Makaurau. He was one of eight recipients for various honours, which included Joycelyn Armstrong, who was presented ... <a title="Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/asia-pacific-report-editor-honoured-for-contribution-to-pacific-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji lawyer Nazhat Shameem Khan has been elevated to the top prosecutorial position at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The Office of the Prosecutor at ICC has announced that deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang have taken over leadership following chief prosecutor Karim AA ... <a title="Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at ICC" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/fiji-lawyer-nazhat-khan-takes-up-acting-top-prosecution-role-at-icc/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at ICC">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Samoan-Kiwi filmmaker Tuki Laumea checks in with indigenous communities in 10 Pacific nations for a new Al Jazeera documentary series, reports RNZ Saturday Morning. RNZ News As the Pacific region becomes a battleground for global power-play, many island nations are still fighting for basic sovereignty and autonomy, says Pacific filmmaker Tuki Laumea. Pacific leaders are ... <a title="While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for basic sovereignty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/while-pacific-is-target-of-geopolitics-many-nations-still-fight-for-basic-sovereignty/" aria-label="Read more about While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for basic sovereignty">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A punitive defamation charge filed against one of Samoa’s most experienced and trusted journalists last week has sparked a flurry of criticism over abuse of power and misuse of a law that has long been heavily criticised as outdated. Talamua Online senior journalist Lagi Keresoma, who is also president of the Journalists ... <a title="Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/punitive-criminal-libel-charge-against-samoan-journalist-draws-flurry-of-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Auckland University law academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged should be repealed. Lagi Keresoma, the first female president of the Journalists Association of Samoa (JAWS) and editor of Talamua Online, was charged under the Crimes Act 2013 on Sunday ... <a title="Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/legal-academic-says-samoas-criminal-libel-law-should-go-after-charge/" aria-label="Read more about Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge">Read more</a>
