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March 10, 2026
REVIEW: By Lee Duffield Declining population in West Papua, and critical loss of life through clashes with the Indonesia military raise the question of genocide in a new book by Brisbane writer Dr Greg Poulgrain. This work, Curse of Gold, published in English by Kompas, as the title indicates traces the roots of subjugation going ... <a title="Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/10/taking-the-wealth-the-plunder-and-impoverishment-of-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2026
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist A Papua New Guinean anthropologist has warned that a campaign by authorities to remove communities from informal settlements in Port Moresby will not solve growing social problems in PNG’s capital. The government is determined to end the role of settlements as what Prime Minister James Marape describes as “breeding ... <a title="Academic’s warning over PNG settlement evictions – doomed to failure?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/10/academics-warning-over-png-settlement-evictions-doomed-to-failure/" aria-label="Read more about Academic’s warning over PNG settlement evictions – doomed to failure?">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2026
Zahra Sultana has mocked US and Israeli pretensions, saying in a BBC interview on Sunday — International Women’s Day — that the girls in the Minab school were slaughtered “apparently to liberate women”. SPECIAL REPORT: By Brett Wilkins of Common Dreams US and Israeli airstrikes have killed nearly 300 Iranian and Lebanese children over the ... <a title="’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of Iranian, Lebanese kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/10/10-classrooms-full-of-children-us-israeli-war-kills-hundreds-of-iranian-lebanese-kids/" aria-label="Read more about ’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of Iranian, Lebanese kids">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2026
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The United States military has begun the formal environmental review process for the continuation of large-scale training and testing activities in waters around the Northern Mariana Islands and on Farallon de Medinilla. The Department of the Navy, including the US Navy and Marine Corps, ... <a title="US military opens environmental review for expanded Marianas training footprint" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/09/us-military-opens-environmental-review-for-expanded-marianas-training-footprint/" aria-label="Read more about US military opens environmental review for expanded Marianas training footprint">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2026
REVIEW: Asia Pacific Report West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening of the new investigative documentary, Pesta Badi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in our Time, in its pre-launch international premiere in New Zealand last night. It was shown for the first time back in West Papua at the southeastern town of ... <a title="West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/09/west-papuan-doco-pig-feast-exposes-oligarchs-food-security-crisis-and-ecocide-under-noses-of-military/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Three more schools and a major hospital have been bombed in Iran and more in Lebanon by the US-Israeli military, all within the first week of launching their latest war. This is a pattern, not “collateral damage”. Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Amir-Saeid Iravani said on March 7 that the ... <a title="The smallest coffins are always the heaviest. The US-Israeli killing of children must be stopped" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/08/the-smallest-coffins-are-always-the-heaviest-the-us-israeli-killing-of-children-must-be-stopped/" aria-label="Read more about The smallest coffins are always the heaviest. The US-Israeli killing of children must be stopped">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2026
Pacific Media Watch Journalists in Iran have been working amid hostile air strikes for almost a week since the start of the US-Israeli offensive while also facing repression from the Iranian regime. Internet access in the country remains limited and information is scarce. As war spreads across the region, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed ... <a title="War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid bombs, says RSF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/06/war-in-iran-journalism-in-crisis-as-reporters-work-amid-bombs-says-rsf/" aria-label="Read more about War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid bombs, says RSF">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Stephen Howes and Rubayat Chowdhury There is no doubt that the war Israel and the United States have launched against Iran will have global economic consequences. While it is difficult to know what those consequences will be, it is hard to see them as positive, and they could be very, very negative. Already ... <a title="US-Israel’s war on Iran – mostly negative scenarios for the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/06/us-israels-war-on-iran-mostly-negative-scenarios-for-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about US-Israel’s war on Iran – mostly negative scenarios for the Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2026
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The All Blacks have their first coach of Pasifika heritage. Dave Rennie has been given the job, replacing the ousted Scott Robertson. Rennie’s Cook Islands heritage comes via his mother, who hails from Titikaveka on Rarotonga, and Rennie even played a non-test match for the country in 1990. Asked ... <a title="‘I know she’d be really proud’ – NZ’s first Pasifika heritage All Blacks coach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/06/i-know-shed-be-really-proud-nzs-first-pasifika-heritage-all-blacks-coach/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I know she’d be really proud’ – NZ’s first Pasifika heritage All Blacks coach">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2026
Asia Pacific Report A new documentary film on the devastating “ecocide” happening in West Papua will be screened at a weekend solidarity forum in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau this weekend. The 90m feature film, Pesta Babi (“The Pig Feast”) — Colonialism In Our Time, produced by award-winning Papuan journalist Victor Mambor and directed by Dandhy Dwi ... <a title="Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum weekend" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/05/devastating-new-ecocide-film-to-premiere-at-west-papua-solidarity-forum-weekend/" aria-label="Read more about Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum weekend">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2026
It’s only Day Five of the war, but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US-Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now. Michael West Media reports. COMMENTARY: By Michael West We are led by fools and sycophants. The illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iran is not just garden-variety stupidity. This is stupidity ... <a title="Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/05/australia-and-the-epstein-coalition-invasion-of-iran-a-disaster/" aria-label="Read more about Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2026
Peace Movement Aotearoa “One can oppose a hateful regime and, at the same time, oppose an unjustified and dangerous military intervention,” says Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. “I once again call for immediate de-escalation, respect for international law, and the urgency of resuming dialogue.” While some governments around the world have easily managed to express ... <a title="New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/05/new-zealand-shameful-over-iran-stance-says-peace-movement-aotearoa/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa">Read more</a>
