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How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific

August 15, 2020

By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre “Climate change may be slower but its momentum is enormous.” – Stuart Chape, Acting Director-General, South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Does anyone remember Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish environmentalist who caused a worldwide climate change stir – particularly among the neoliberal believers – but was ... <a title="How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/15/how-covid-19-has-undermined-climate-change-initiatives-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific">Read more</a>

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Covid spread could ‘decimate’ Pasifika, Māori communities, warns Tukuitonga

August 14, 2020

By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Pacific health specialist Dr Collin Tukuitonga is worried that the latest community transmission of covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand “could get very messy”. “The latest cluster is a worry because the source is unknown and highly probable as community transmission,” says Dr Tukuitonga, who was heavily involved during ... <a title="Covid spread could ‘decimate’ Pasifika, Māori communities, warns Tukuitonga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/covid-spread-could-decimate-pasifika-maori-communities-warns-tukuitonga/" aria-label="Read more about Covid spread could ‘decimate’ Pasifika, Māori communities, warns Tukuitonga">Read more</a>

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35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind

July 29, 2020

Flashback: Tagata Pasifika’s John Pulu talks to Oscar Temaru. By David Robie One of the champions of the South Pacific’s nuclear-free and independence campaigners, Oscar Manutahi Temaru, is expected to make a guest appearance tomorrow in a retrospective webinar about the impact of the Rainbow Warrior bombing 35 years on. The webinar, titled “The Rainbow ... <a title="35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/29/35-years-on-tahitis-temaru-likely-guest-in-rainbow-warrior-rewind/" aria-label="Read more about 35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind">Read more</a>

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Loimata – The Sweetest Tears is a spectacularly exquisite documentary

July 27, 2020

Pacific Media Watch Host Zoe Larsen Cumming had much to discuss on a new documentary, the exquisitely made Loimata – The Sweetest Tears, which was launched last Saturday to a full house at the ASB Waterfront Theatre as part of the international Whanau Marama film festival. She asked Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi ... <a title="Loimata – The Sweetest Tears is a spectacularly exquisite documentary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/27/loimata-the-sweetest-tears-is-a-spectacularly-exquisite-documentary/" aria-label="Read more about Loimata – The Sweetest Tears is a spectacularly exquisite documentary">Read more</a>

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Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka voyaging

July 22, 2020

An interview with filmmaker Anna Marbrook on the making of Loimata. Video: Tagata Pasifika/Sunpix DOCUMENTARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, who talks to Jim Marbrook about the making of Loimata – The Sweetest Tears. Loimata isn’t just a true story of one of the Pacific’s great waka builders and sailors that has been captured in a stirring ... <a title="Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka voyaging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/22/loimata-a-poignant-family-to-family-story-of-the-revival-of-waka-voyaging/" aria-label="Read more about Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka voyaging">Read more</a>

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Pacific language videos: Kiribati week highlights role of fathers

July 15, 2020

The AUT video … first of this year’s languags series. By Simon Smith of AUT News The Kiribati instalment in the AUT Pacific language video series – “Adapting to a changing world, shaping resilient futures” – has been released. The video, produced by Auckland University of Technology, is narrated in I-Kiribati, (with English subtitles) to ... <a title="Pacific language videos: Kiribati week highlights role of fathers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/15/pacific-language-videos-kiribati-week-highlights-role-of-fathers/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific language videos: Kiribati week highlights role of fathers">Read more</a>

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Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2

July 3, 2020

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A Papuan church leader and advocate for social justice has penned an open letter to the Indonesian government calling for justice and an end to racism to enable a genuine self-determination process for the Melanesian region. “The problem of Papua has become increasingly complex and severe because the root of the ... <a title="Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/open-letter-to-jakarta-papuan-self-determination-isnt-special-autonomy-v2/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2">Read more</a>

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USP saga lesson for Pacific future: No more looking the other way?

June 26, 2020

The recent University of the South Pacific (USP) Council meeting to address governance issues resulting in the reinstatement of its suspended vice-chancellor may have opened a pathway for political will among leaders and politicians of forum member countries to push for better governance in regional institutions. It may have also put the spotlight on our ... <a title="USP saga lesson for Pacific future: No more looking the other way?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/usp-saga-lesson-for-pacific-future-no-more-looking-the-other-way/" aria-label="Read more about USP saga lesson for Pacific future: No more looking the other way?">Read more</a>

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Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity

June 25, 2020

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Miss Universe NZ 2019 beauty queen Diamond Langi is being trolled by thousands of Indonesians on social media for speaking up about discrimination against West Papuans. “The post I had made was #FreeWestPapua with a video showcasing the discrimination West Papuans have had to endure for ... <a title="Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/indonesian-trolls-target-tongan-beauty-diamond-langi-over-papuan-solidarity/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity">Read more</a>

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Where’s the Pacific voice in the viral ‘real Lord of the Flies’ story?

May 21, 2020

By Mong Palatino of Global Voices A book excerpt published by The Guardian narrates the survival of six shipwrecked Tongan boys on an island for 15 months in 1965. The story received more than seven million hits in just four days, but some Tongans have pointed out that the story, which foregrounds the point of ... <a title="Where’s the Pacific voice in the viral ‘real Lord of the Flies’ story?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/wheres-the-pacific-voice-in-the-viral-real-lord-of-the-flies-story/" aria-label="Read more about Where’s the Pacific voice in the viral ‘real Lord of the Flies’ story?">Read more</a>

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Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds

July 16, 2019

COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya in Auckland More than 50 years of “torture” has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the complicity of Western governments, great fear has been put in the hearts and minds of people across the Pacific. These terrors have become cancerous tumours in the body of the ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/yamin-kogoya-why-indonesian-trade-expo-deception-wont-win-pacific-hearts-and-minds/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds">Read more</a>

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Iconic Tongan publisher Kalafi Moala eyes new digital media challenge

June 25, 2019

Tongan journalist, publisher and broadcaster Kalafi Moala talks to Pacific Media Watch project’s Sri Krishnamurthi. Video: Sri Krishnamurthi/Blessen Tom By Sri Krishnamurthi After 30 years as chief editor and publisher of Tonga’s flagship Taimi ‘o Tonga newspaper, the iconic Pacific media personality Kalafi Moala has sold his business and is looking to move on. He ... <a title="Iconic Tongan publisher Kalafi Moala eyes new digital media challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/iconic-tongan-publisher-kalafi-moala-eyes-new-digital-media-challenge/" aria-label="Read more about Iconic Tongan publisher Kalafi Moala eyes new digital media challenge">Read more</a>