CoveragePost
June 10, 2024
By Monika Singh in Suva New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) awardee Professor David Robie has called on young journalists to see journalism as a calling and not just a job. Dr Robie, who is also the editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of the Asia Pacific Media Network, was named in the ... <a title="Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on decolonisation, Robie tells Wansolwara" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/defend-pacific-voice-over-geopolitics-climate-crisis-keep-pressure-on-decolonisation-robie-tells-wansolwara/" aria-label="Read more about Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on decolonisation, Robie tells Wansolwara">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 10, 2024
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby New Ireland Governor and a former Papua New Guinea prime minister Sir Julius Chan told the PNG Post-Courier in a “last man standing” interview at the weekend that this “media crime” should stop. He was responding to a fake press release allegedly released by New Ireland Deputy Governor Missen ... <a title="Sir Julius Chan ‘alive and well’ response to fake PNG media post" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/sir-julius-chan-alive-and-well-response-to-fake-png-media-post/" aria-label="Read more about Sir Julius Chan ‘alive and well’ response to fake PNG media post">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 6, 2024
COMMENTARY: By John Minto Good slogans have people nodding their heads in agreement because they recognise an underlying truth in the words. I have a worn-out t-shirt which carries the slogan, “The first casualty of war is truth — the rest are mostly civilians”. If you find yourself nodding in agreement it’s possibly because ... <a title="John Minto: The first casualty of war is truth – the rest are mostly civilians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/06/john-minto-the-first-casualty-of-war-is-truth-the-rest-are-mostly-civilians/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: The first casualty of war is truth – the rest are mostly civilians">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 3, 2024
By Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News Flipped “back in time” is how New Zealand author, journalist and media educator Dr David Robie describes the crisis in New Caledonia. Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media and educated Pacific journalists for more than four decades. He reported on the indigenous Kanak pro-independence uprising in ... <a title="King’s Birthday Honours: NZ journalist reflects on work in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/kings-birthday-honours-nz-journalist-reflects-on-work-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about King’s Birthday Honours: NZ journalist reflects on work in the Pacific">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 2, 2024
By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies expecting change in the face of New Zealand’s NewsHub closure next month. The organisation has content-sharing agreements with traditional NZ media organisations including Stuff, New Zealand Herald, RNZ and TVNZ, ... <a title="Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/newshub-closures-creating-waves-of-change-across-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 30, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Three Nouméa municipal policemen are now facing a prosecution after a disturbing video was posted in a Facebook neighbourhood watch group, allegedly implicating them in acts of severe violence against a Kanak man they had just arrested. The municipal police officers are not part of the ... <a title="Three Nouméa police officers face prosecution after viral violent video" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/30/three-noumea-police-officers-face-prosecution-after-viral-violent-video/" aria-label="Read more about Three Nouméa police officers face prosecution after viral violent video">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 28, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Teanau Tuiono There is an important story to be told behind the story Aotearoa New Zealand’s mainstream media has been reporting on in Kanaky New Caledonia. Beyond the efforts to evacuate New Zealanders lies a struggle for indigenous sovereignty and self-determination we here in Aotearoa can relate to. Aotearoa is part of a ... <a title="New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/28/new-zealands-role-in-helping-bring-peace-to-kanaky-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 28, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The Daily Blog, New Zealand’s most important leftwing website of news, views and analyses at the heart of the country’s most conservative mediascape in years, has been hacked. It was silenced yesterday for several hours but is back up and running today. The Daily Blog editor and founder Martyn Bradbury launched the ... <a title="The Daily Blog hacked – NZ’s most important left media outlet silenced for a day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/28/the-daily-blog-hacked-nzs-most-important-left-media-outlet-silenced-for-a-day/" aria-label="Read more about The Daily Blog hacked – NZ’s most important left media outlet silenced for a day">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 27, 2024
Alex Bainbridge talks to David Robie on Kanaky and settler colonialism. Video: Green Left Green Left Show Indigenous Kanaks in Kanaky (New Caledonia) have sprung into revolt in the last two weeks in response to moves by the colonial power France to undermine moves towards independence in the Pacific territory. Journalist David Robie from Aotearoa ... <a title="French repressive policies in New Caledonia have ‘betrayed’ Kanak hopes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/27/french-repressive-policies-in-new-caledonia-have-betrayed-kanak-hopes/" aria-label="Read more about French repressive policies in New Caledonia have ‘betrayed’ Kanak hopes">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 27, 2024
“In the aftermath of the ‘No’ denying an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in Australia, I deeply sympathise with the Kanak people’s frustration, fear, and anger at being outvoted and dismissed,” writes Angelina Hurley. COMMENTARY: By Angelina Hurley After the trauma of completing a PhD on decolonising Australian humour, I needed a well-deserved break. I always ... <a title="Amid Kanaky New Caledonia’s unrest, I saw first-hand the same colonial white privilege that caused it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/27/amid-kanaky-new-caledonias-unrest-i-saw-first-hand-the-same-colonial-white-privilege-that-caused-it/" aria-label="Read more about Amid Kanaky New Caledonia’s unrest, I saw first-hand the same colonial white privilege that caused it">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 26, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan independence group has condemned French “modern-day colonialism in action” in Kanaky New Caledonia and urged indigenous leaders to “fight on”. In a statement to the Kanak pro-independence leadership, exiled United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) president Benny Wenda said the proposed electoral changes being debated in the French ... <a title="West Papua independence group slams French ‘modern-day colonialism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/26/west-papua-independence-group-slams-french-modern-day-colonialism/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua independence group slams French ‘modern-day colonialism’">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 26, 2024
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times So 40 Fiji members of Parliament voted in favour of the Special Committee on Emoluments Report on the review of MPs’ salaries, allowances and benefits in Parliament on Friday. Now that’s not going down well with the masses, with many venting their frustrations on social media. ... <a title="The Fiji Times: Public outcry over Fijians’ MPs pay rise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/26/the-fiji-times-public-outcry-over-fijians-mps-pay-rise/" aria-label="Read more about The Fiji Times: Public outcry over Fijians’ MPs pay rise">Read more</a>
