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November 5, 2025
By ‘Alakihihifo Vailala, PMN News The Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) repeatedly warned its minister that replacing the traditional population-wide survey with administrative data would have negative consequences for data on Pasifika communities. They cautioned that this change would undercount Pacific people and lead to poor policy decisions, yet the changes proceeded. In records obtained ... <a title="Confidential documents reveal Pacific Ministry raised concerns over NZ census overhaul" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/05/confidential-documents-reveal-pacific-ministry-raised-concerns-over-nz-census-overhaul/" aria-label="Read more about Confidential documents reveal Pacific Ministry raised concerns over NZ census overhaul">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Māori and Pasifika leaders are leading climate adaptation, guided by ancestral knowledge and Indigenous principles to build resilience and shape global solutions. Last week, they played a key role in launching a new Indigenous climate adaptation network at a wānanga ahead of Adaptation Futures ... <a title="‘Oceania voices’ – Indigenous climate adaptation network launches in Ōtautahi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/25/oceania-voices-indigenous-climate-adaptation-network-launches-in-otautahi/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Oceania voices’ – Indigenous climate adaptation network launches in Ōtautahi">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Amnesty International is asking the New Zealand government to create a new humanitarian visa for Pacific people impacted by climate change. Kiribati community leader Charles Kiata said life on Kiribati was becoming extremely hard as sea levels rose and the country was hit by more severe storms, higher temperatures ... <a title="Amnesty International wants NZ visa for climate-hit Pacific islanders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/11/amnesty-international-wants-nz-visa-for-climate-hit-pacific-islanders/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty International wants NZ visa for climate-hit Pacific islanders">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Rarotonga The Cook Islands Secretary of Culture Emile Kairua says people in his country are getting complacent about the use of Māori. Cook Islands Māori Language Week started on Sunday in New Zealand and will run until Saturday. Kairua said the language is at risk at the source. ... <a title="‘People have stopped using it’: Culture secretary warns of complacency over Cook Islands Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/people-have-stopped-using-it-culture-secretary-warns-of-complacency-over-cook-islands-maori/" aria-label="Read more about ‘People have stopped using it’: Culture secretary warns of complacency over Cook Islands Māori">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Greenpeace Join us for this guided “virtual tour” around the Rainbow Warrior III in Auckland Harbour on the afternoon of 10 July 2025 — the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original flagship. The Rainbow Warrior is a special vessel — it’s one of three present-day Greenpeace ships. The Rainbow Warrior works on the ... <a title="Author David Robie joins Greenpeace virtual tour of Rainbow Warrior" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/author-david-robie-joins-greenpeace-virtual-tour-of-rainbow-warrior/" aria-label="Read more about Author David Robie joins Greenpeace virtual tour of Rainbow Warrior">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2025
INTERVIEW: By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist One of the first women to hold an open seat in Bougainville, Theonila Roka Matbob, is confident she can win again. Bougainville goes to the polls in the first week of September, and Roka Matbob aims to hold on to her Ioro seat in central Bougainville, where ... <a title="Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/27/bougainville-woman-cabinet-minister-battling-nine-men-to-hold-her-seat/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2025
By Jamie Tahana in The Hague for RNZ Pacific The United Nations’ highest court has found that countries can be held legally responsible for their greenhouse gas emissions, in a ruling highly anticipated by Pacific countries long frustrated with the pace of global action to address climate change. In a landmark opinion delivered yesterday in ... <a title="UN’s highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/24/uns-highest-court-finds-countries-can-be-held-legally-responsible-for-emissions/" aria-label="Read more about UN’s highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for emissions">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A longtime Bougainville politician, Joe Lera, wants to see widespread changes in the way the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) is run. The Papua New Guinea region, which is seeking independence from Port Moresby, is holding elections in the first week of September. Seven candidates are running for president, ... <a title="Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/veteran-bougainville-politician-wants-new-approach-to-independence-and-development/" aria-label="Read more about Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Greenpeace pioneer and activist Susi Newborn is among the “nuclear free heroes” featured in a video tribute premiered this week in an exhibition dedicated to a nuclear-free Pacific. The week-long exhibition at Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s Ellen Melville Centre, titled “Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995,” closes tomorrow afternoon. ... <a title="Susi Newborn among activists featured in Pacific ‘nuclear free heroes’ video" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/18/susi-newborn-among-activists-featured-in-pacific-nuclear-free-heroes-video/" aria-label="Read more about Susi Newborn among activists featured in Pacific ‘nuclear free heroes’ video">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for its “callous” attack of an environmental ship, saying “we haven’t forgotten, or forgiven this outrage”. David Robie, the author of Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, said at the launch ... <a title="Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/14/author-condemns-callous-health-legacy-of-french-us-nuclear-bomb-tests-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An opposition Labour Party MP today paid tribute to the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement, saying it should inspire Aotearoa New Zealand to maintain its own independence, embrace a strong regionalism, and be a “voice for peace and demilitarisation”. But Phil Twyford, MP for Te Atatu and spokesperson on disarmament, ... <a title="Twyford praises NFIP lead, calls for inspired peace and regionalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/13/twyford-praises-nfip-lead-calls-for-inspired-peace-and-regionalism/" aria-label="Read more about Twyford praises NFIP lead, calls for inspired peace and regionalism">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2025
Pacific Media Watch In July 1985, Australia’s Pacific territory of Norfolk Island (pop. 2188) became the centre of a real life international spy thriller. Four French agents sailed there on board the Ouvéa, a yacht from Kanaky New Caledonia, after bombing the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, killing Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira. The Rainbow Warrior was ... <a title="Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/03/fallout-spies-on-norfolk-island-sbs-podcast/" aria-label="Read more about Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast">Read more</a>
