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July 29, 2021
COMMENT: By Shailendra Singh in Suva This poignant photo by Max Vosailagi captures Fiji’s fixation with rugby sevens, with winning a second Olympic Gold last night by beating New Zealand 27-12 in the men’s final. Two young boys, glued to what is apparently a TV screen through a neighbourhood front door during the Tokyo Olympic ... <a title="Fiji Olympic Gold … never to be missed even for Fiji’s youngest sevens fans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/fiji-olympic-gold-never-to-be-missed-even-for-fijis-youngest-sevens-fans/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Olympic Gold … never to be missed even for Fiji’s youngest sevens fans">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2021
By Josefa Babitu in Suva The dream of putting a smile on his mother’s face on his graduation day from university has become one that will never happen for Gabriel Gade, after his mother succumbed to the coronavirus that has killed dozens of people in Fiji. “My ultimate dream was to make her proud of ... <a title="Fiji student son tells of his pregnant nurse mum’s losing struggle with covid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/28/fiji-student-son-tells-of-his-pregnant-nurse-mums-losing-struggle-with-covid/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji student son tells of his pregnant nurse mum’s losing struggle with covid">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2021
By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala About 35 people joined an Auckland rally last Sunday in solidarity with a Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter demonstration by thousands of Tahitians happening in Pape’ete, the capital. In solidarity and in sync with the Pape’ete event, the Mai te Paura Atōmī i te ti’amara’a: From Bomb Contamination to Self-determination ... <a title="Nine takeaways from the Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter solidarity rally in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/23/nine-takeaways-from-the-maohi-nui-lives-matter-solidarity-rally-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Nine takeaways from the Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter solidarity rally in NZ">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2021
By Andrew McRae, RNZ News reporter The umbrella term Pacific Islander or Polynesian has been criticised as degrading and insensitive. Researcher Dr Seini Taufa, who is a New Zealand-born Tongan, said the names were not indigenous terms and were insulting. Dr Taufa is research lead for Moana Research and Senior Pacific Advisor for the Growing ... <a title="‘Pacific Islander’ an insulting umbrella term, researcher tells Royal Commission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/23/pacific-islander-an-insulting-umbrella-term-researcher-tells-royal-commission/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Pacific Islander’ an insulting umbrella term, researcher tells Royal Commission">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
COMMENT: By Professor Biman Prasad Pictures and videos emerging about the shocking and deplorable conditions for covid-isolated patients in Fiji hospitals are no surprise. Nor should they be. They are a direct consequence of the Bainimarama government’s failure to lead, failure to plan – and worst of all, failure to care. Two months ago Ministry ... <a title="Fiji’s covid horror is too late to fix, yet still our leaders stay silent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/fijis-covid-horror-is-too-late-to-fix-yet-still-our-leaders-stay-silent/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s covid horror is too late to fix, yet still our leaders stay silent">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dan McGarry, The Village Explainer I wasn’t invited to the inaugural Vanuatu media awards a couple of weeks ago. Nor was I asked to participate. Instead, I spent the weekend preparing the final draft of the Media Association of Vanuatu’s Code of Ethics and Practice. I am proud to say it was adopted ... <a title="Dan McGarry: The truth is our republic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/dan-mcgarry-the-truth-is-our-republic/" aria-label="Read more about Dan McGarry: The truth is our republic">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk As many as 714,066 Papuans and 112 organisations which are part of the Papuan People’s Petition (PRP) have rejected last week’s enactment into law of revisions to Law Number 21/2001 on Papua Special Autonomy (Otsus), reports CNN Indonesia. They believe that special autonomy is not the answer to resolving the problems ... <a title="714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/714000-papuans-112-organisations-oppose-failed-special-autonomy-law/" aria-label="Read more about 714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2021
Over the past 50 years, France has continued to deny the tragedies of nuclear testing in French Occupied Polynesia by propagating the theory of “clean nuclear tests”. Image: Youngsolwara Pacific Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Moana activists, campaigners, scholars, researchers and Green MPs gathered today in a show of solidarity for Tahiti’s Ma’ohi Lives Matter rally ... <a title="NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners join Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/19/nz-nuclear-free-activists-campaigners-join-tahitis-maohi-lives-matter-rally/" aria-label="Read more about NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners join Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf. Two French secret agents planted two limpet mines on the ship while it was berthed at Marsden wharf. The second explosion killed Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira when he got trapped on board while retrieving his cameras. ... <a title="Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/case-017-rnz-podcast-the-bombing-of-the-rainbow-warrior/" aria-label="Read more about Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
The Polynesian Panther Party will hold a three-day fonotaga commemoration event this weekend at the University of Auckland’s Fale Pasifika. Whakaako kia Whakaora – Educate to Liberate. Image: RNZ/Polynesian Panthers Dawn Raid apology The Panthers’ golden jubilee couldn’t be more forthcoming, given an announcement made this week of a formal government apology for the 1970s ... <a title="50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/50-years-of-the-polynesian-panthers-it-was-a-time-of-revolution/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland Four fresh indigenous Papuan students have graduated with degrees from Aotearoa New Zealand universities in the past few weeks to fulfil the dreams of Papuan provincial government leaders Lukas Enembe and Dominggus Mandacan. The two governors of both Indonesian-Melanesian provinces, Enembe (Papua) province and Mandacan (West Papua) made a bold ... <a title="Indigenous Papuan graduates praise Aotearoa – and their governors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/indigenous-papuan-graduates-praise-aotearoa-and-their-governors/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous Papuan graduates praise Aotearoa – and their governors">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ News Pacific correspondent As the New Zealand government confirmed it would apologise for the 1970s Dawn Raids against Pacific Islanders, memories have surfaced for those traumatised by them, including one elderly man. The politically-driven crackdown on overstayers from the Pacific Islands involved special police squads raiding homes and workplaces, often in ... <a title="Elderly Pasifika man sobs as memories of Dawn Raids surface over apology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/elderly-pasifika-man-sobs-as-memories-of-dawn-raids-surface-over-apology/" aria-label="Read more about Elderly Pasifika man sobs as memories of Dawn Raids surface over apology">Read more</a>
