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April 23, 2024
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara With only four more seats in the 50-member Parliament yet to be officially declared, there is no outright winner in the Solomon Islands elections. As of Monday, the two largest blocs in the winner’s circle, independents and the incumbent Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s Our Party, were tied ... <a title="No clear winner as lobbying to form next Solomon Islands government intensifies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/no-clear-winner-as-lobbying-to-form-next-solomon-islands-government-intensifies/" aria-label="Read more about No clear winner as lobbying to form next Solomon Islands government intensifies">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters is putting off recognition of Palestine as a state, despite opposition Labour’s formal request that he make the move. Peters said diplomatic recognition of Palestine was a matter of “when not if”, but doing so now could impede progress towards a ... <a title="NZ’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters ‘defers’ recognition of Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/nzs-foreign-minister-winston-peters-defers-recognition-of-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters ‘defers’ recognition of Palestine">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2024
By Salwa Amor in Istanbul Palestine solidarity activists are preparing a flotilla to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, vowing to break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory on board the Akdeniz, a seven-deck passenger ship. Currently docked in Istanbul, the ship will carry 800 people from more than 30 nations, from Indonesia to ... <a title="Activists defy Israel with Gaza-bound ‘freedom’ flotilla and humanitarian aid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/22/activists-defy-israel-with-gaza-bound-freedom-flotilla-and-humanitarian-aid/" aria-label="Read more about Activists defy Israel with Gaza-bound ‘freedom’ flotilla and humanitarian aid">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2024
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara More than 60 percent of the national results of the Solomon Islands election are now in. So far, two female MPs have been elected and three former prime ministers may be in the running for the top job. Counting is still progressing at a snail’s pace — ... <a title="More than half of Solomon Islands election results in as counting continues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/22/more-than-half-of-solomon-islands-election-results-in-as-counting-continues/" aria-label="Read more about More than half of Solomon Islands election results in as counting continues">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2024
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to Papuan allies during the Second World War indigenous resistance against the invading Japanese forces. “A promise to most people is a promise,” Aubrey said in his open letter marking the ... <a title="Australian author leads silent protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/21/australian-author-leads-silent-protest-over-blood-debt-owed-to-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Australian author leads silent protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Australians are being urged to stay united following the horrific events in Sydney last week, reports the ABC’s Saturday Extra programme. Five women and one man were killed in a mass stabbing at Bondi Junction last Saturday by a man with a history of mental illness, and a nine-month-old baby baby was ... <a title="Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/21/australias-social-cohesion-under-strain-challenges-and-solutions/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2024
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara Solomon Islands’ incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has been re-elected in the East Choiseul constituency. It is the opening move in the political chess match to form the country’s next government. Returning officer Christopher Makoni made the declaration late last night after a day of counting, according ... <a title="Solomon Islands political chess begins with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in East Choiseul" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/20/solomon-islands-political-chess-begins-with-manasseh-sogavare-re-elected-in-east-choiseul/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands political chess begins with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in East Choiseul">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2024
Kia Ora Gaza A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from a big crowd of supporters before flying to Turkey to join the international Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. The doctors, who left Auckland yesterday, hope to be able to reach Gaza ... <a title="Rousing farewell for Kiwi doctors flying out to Gaza aid flotilla" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/19/rousing-farewell-for-kiwi-doctors-flying-out-to-gaza-aid-flotilla/" aria-label="Read more about Rousing farewell for Kiwi doctors flying out to Gaza aid flotilla">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Helen Clark, how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister — the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory — gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held in Parliament’s old Legislative Chambers ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Helen Clark on why AUKUS isn’t in New Zealand’s national interest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/19/eugene-doyle-helen-clark-on-why-aukus-isnt-in-new-zealands-national-interest/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Helen Clark on why AUKUS isn’t in New Zealand’s national interest">Read more</a>
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April 18, 2024
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara After a relatively well organised and peaceful day of voting in Solomon Islands yesterday, the electoral commission is working with donor partners to safely transport ballot boxes from polling stations all over the country to centrally located counting venues. It is a massive exercise with more than ... <a title="‘The right person’: What did Solomon Islanders vote for?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/18/the-right-person-what-did-solomon-islanders-vote-for/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The right person’: What did Solomon Islanders vote for?">Read more</a>
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April 18, 2024
I came to this evening of short films not sure what to expect. I have a history with West Papua (here referring to the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea, which comprises five provinces, one named “West Papua”) from my days fronting the legendary West Papuan band Black Brothers in the early 1990s. ... <a title="A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest songs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/18/a-montage-of-west-papuan-everyday-life-from-hip-hop-to-protest-songs/" aria-label="Read more about A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest songs">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Myles Thomas The announced closure of Television New Zealand’s last primetime current affairs programme seems to be the final nail in the coffin for New Zealand’s television credibility. Coming a day after the announcement of the closure of Newshub, it shows that Kiwis have the worst television and video media in the Western ... <a title="Myles Thomas: Newshub, TVNZ job cuts: We now have the worst TV in the Western world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/myles-thomas-newshub-tvnz-job-cuts-we-now-have-the-worst-tv-in-the-western-world/" aria-label="Read more about Myles Thomas: Newshub, TVNZ job cuts: We now have the worst TV in the Western world">Read more</a>
