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May 25, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Pro-Palestinian protesters dressed in blue “press” vests tonight staged a vigil calling on New Zealand journalists to show solidarity with the media of Gaza who have suffered the highest death toll in any war. They staged the vigil at the Viaduct venue of NZ’s annual Voyager Media Awards. Organised by Palestinian Youth ... <a title="Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/25/palestine-protesters-call-for-gaza-press-solidarity-at-nz-media-awards/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Rob Campbell Is it just me or is it not more than a little odd that coverage of current events in New Caledonia/Kanaky is dominated by the inconvenience of tourists and rescue flights out of the Pacific paradise. That the events are described as “disruption” or “riots” without any real reference to the ... <a title="Rob Campbell: Unrest in New Caledonia – as seen through moana or colonialist eyes?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/23/rob-campbell-unrest-in-new-caledonia-as-seen-through-moana-or-colonialist-eyes/" aria-label="Read more about Rob Campbell: Unrest in New Caledonia – as seen through moana or colonialist eyes?">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
By Stephen Wright of BenarNews The Papua New Guinea government’s push for news organisations to become its cheer-leading squad is under further scrutiny this week as Parliament hears testimony from journalists and top officials. The effort to wield influence over the news, first announced last year as a “media development policy”, has been watered down ... <a title="Journalists challenge PNG government over ‘media control’ policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/journalists-challenge-png-government-over-media-control-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists challenge PNG government over ‘media control’ policy">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Liberation “must come” for Kanaky New Caledonia, says one of the few New Zealand journalists who have worked consistently on stories across the French Pacific territories. Journalist David Robie was arrested at gunpoint by French police in January 1987, and is no stranger to civil unrest in New Caledonia. ... <a title="‘France lost the plot’ – journalist David Robie on Kanaky New Caledonia riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/france-lost-the-plot-journalist-david-robie-on-kanaky-new-caledonia-riots/" aria-label="Read more about ‘France lost the plot’ – journalist David Robie on Kanaky New Caledonia riots">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Pacific Media WatchThe Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for guaranteed safety for journalists in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Capedonia after an increase in intimidation, threats, obstruction and attacks against them. After a week of violence that broke out in the capital of Nouméa following a controversial ... <a title="RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/rsf-calls-on-french-authorities-to-guarantee-journalist-safety-in-kanaky-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
Pacific Media Watch A Māori supporter of Pacific independence movements claims the French government has “constructed the crisis” in New Caledonia by pushing the indigenous Kanak population to the edge, reports Atereano Mateariki of Waatea News. A NZ Defence Force Hercules is today evacuating about 50 New Zealanders stranded in the French Pacific island territory ... <a title="France to blame for ‘constructing’ Kanaky crisis, says Kia Mau" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/france-to-blame-for-constructing-kanaky-crisis-says-kia-mau/" aria-label="Read more about France to blame for ‘constructing’ Kanaky crisis, says Kia Mau">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell The split opening up in Israel’s “War Cabinet” is not just between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his long-term rival Benny Gantz. It is actually a three-way split, set in motion by Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. It was Gallant’s open criticism of Netanyahu that finally flushed Gantz out into the open. ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: Israel’s political split, and the New Caledonia crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/gordon-campbell-israels-political-split-and-the-new-caledonia-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: Israel’s political split, and the New Caledonia crisis">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2024
Asia Pacific Report As Israel drives the Palestinians deeper into another Nakba in Gaza with its assault on Rafah, the Palestine Youth Aotearoa (PYA) and solidarity supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand tonight commemorated the original Nakba — “the Catastrophe” — of 1948. The 1948 Nakba . . . more than 750,000 Palestinians were forced to ... <a title="Nakba Gallery: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/20/nakba-gallery-from-the-river-to-the-sea-palestine-will-be-free/" aria-label="Read more about Nakba Gallery: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2024
Young people on the streets in New Caledonia are saying they will “never give up” pushing back against France’s hold on the Pacific territory, a Kanak journalist in Nouméa says. Pro-independence Radio Djiido’s Andre Qaeze told RNZ Pacific young people had said that “Paris must respect us” and what had been decided by Jacques Lafleur ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Young people will ‘never give up’ – journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/20/kanaky-new-caledonia-unrest-young-people-will-never-give-up-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Young people will ‘never give up’ – journalist">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2024
NC La Première television reports on the clearing of barricades after a week of protests and rioting in the capital Nouméa. Video: NC 1ère TV By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk With New Caledonia about to enter its second week of deadly riots, French authorities have mounted a massive law enforcement operation ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: French politics rocked as leaders plead for end" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/19/kanaky-new-caledonia-unrest-french-politics-rocked-as-leaders-plead-for-end/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: French politics rocked as leaders plead for end">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: Islands Business in Suva Today is the 24th anniversary of renegade and failed businessman George Speight’s coup in 2000 Fiji. The elected coalition government headed by Mahendra Chaudhry, the first and only Indo-Fijian prime minister of Fiji, was held hostage at gunpoint for 56 days in the country’s new Parliament by Speight’s rebel ... <a title="Fiji’s Jo Nata reflects on the 2000 coup: ‘We let the racism genie out of the bottle’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/19/fijis-jo-nata-reflects-on-the-2000-coup-we-let-the-racism-genie-out-of-the-bottle/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Jo Nata reflects on the 2000 coup: ‘We let the racism genie out of the bottle’">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Jean-Marie Tjibaou, a revered Kanak visionary, was inspirational to indigenous Pacific political activists across Oceania, just like Tongan anthropologist and writer Epeli Hao’ofa was to cultural advocates. Tragically, he was assassinated in 1989 by an opponent within the independence movement during the so-called “les événements” in ... <a title="Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/kanaky-in-flames-five-takeaways-from-the-new-caledonia-independence-riots/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots">Read more</a>
