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January 21, 2024
EDITORIAL: By The Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley What is happening to us in Fiji? How did we get to this stage? The brutal attack and senseless death of [35-year-old carpenter] Apakuki Tavodi in [a roadside stabbing] in Saweni, Lautoka, is a shocking reminder about how fragile life can be. THE FIJI TIMES It is ... <a title="The Fiji Times: Call for action – let’s see this death as a wake-up call" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/21/the-fiji-times-call-for-action-lets-see-this-death-as-a-wake-up-call/" aria-label="Read more about The Fiji Times: Call for action – let’s see this death as a wake-up call">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2024
RNZ News New Zealand’s opposition parties have seized on a leaked ministerial memo about the coalition government’s proposed Treaty Principles bill, saying the prime minister should put a stop to it. ACT is defending the bill, while National has repeated its position of supporting it no further than select committee. Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri ... <a title="NZ opposition parties urge PM Luxon to shut down ‘erase treaty’ bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/21/nz-opposition-parties-urge-pm-luxon-to-shut-down-erase-treaty-bill/" aria-label="Read more about NZ opposition parties urge PM Luxon to shut down ‘erase treaty’ bill">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
By Binoy Kampmark The Age has revealed the dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last December 20 was the nasty fruit of a campaign waged against chair Ita Buttrose and managing director David Anderson. The official reason for Lattouf’s dismissal was ordinary: she shared a post by Human Rights Watch about Israel “using starvation of civilians as a ... <a title="Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/cancelling-the-journalist-furore-over-abcs-coverage-of-israel-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
RNZ Pacific Waikato Tainui estimate at least 10,000 people have been welcomed onto Tūrangawaewae marae to participate in an Aotearoa New Zealand national hui called by Kiingi Tuuheitia. Kiingi Tuuheitia extended the invite last month after iwi leaders highlighted the need for a unified response to coalition government policy impacting Māori and the 1840 Te ... <a title="More than 10,000 turn out for NZ’s national Hui-ā-Iwi at Tūrangawaewae" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/more-than-10000-turn-out-for-nzs-national-hui-a-iwi-at-turangawaewae/" aria-label="Read more about More than 10,000 turn out for NZ’s national Hui-ā-Iwi at Tūrangawaewae">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Cassandra Mudgway, University of Canterbury The high-stress nature of working in politics is increasingly taking a toll on staff and politicians. But an additional threat to the personal wellbeing and safety of politicians resides outside Parliament, and the threat is ubiquitous: online violence against women MPs. Since her election in 2017, Green Party ... <a title="Golriz Ghahraman’s exit from politics shows the toll of online bullying on female MPs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/golriz-ghahramans-exit-from-politics-shows-the-toll-of-online-bullying-on-female-mps/" aria-label="Read more about Golriz Ghahraman’s exit from politics shows the toll of online bullying on female MPs">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2024
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Marshall Islands officials quickly moved this week to reaffirm this nation’s ties with Taipei in the wake of Nauru shifting diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China. “The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) values the strong relationship with Republic of China (Taiwan) ... <a title="Marshall Islands reaffirms ties with Taiwan in wake of Nauru shift" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/19/marshall-islands-reaffirms-ties-with-taiwan-in-wake-of-nauru-shift/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands reaffirms ties with Taiwan in wake of Nauru shift">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2024
In the wake of last week’s riots and looting across Papua New Guinea’s cities, the government has announced plans to get the country’s youth working. Prime Minister James Marape said efforts would be made to mobilise people aged 16 to 30, who were not in work or education. Some of the blame for the rioting ... <a title="Marape tells PNG youth ‘I’m your father’ in bid to mobilise them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/19/marape-tells-png-youth-im-your-father-in-bid-to-mobilise-them/" aria-label="Read more about Marape tells PNG youth ‘I’m your father’ in bid to mobilise them">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Biden administration has officially re-designated Ansarallah – the dominant force in Yemen also known as the Houthis – as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity. The White House claims the designation is an appropriate response to the group’s attacks on US military vessels and commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of ... <a title="When Yemen does it it’s ‘terrorism’, when the US does it it’s ‘the rules-based order’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/18/when-yemen-does-it-its-terrorism-when-the-us-does-it-its-the-rules-based-order/" aria-label="Read more about When Yemen does it it’s ‘terrorism’, when the US does it it’s ‘the rules-based order’">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2024
The latest victim of last week’s rioting and looting in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby is the city’s top police commander. National Capital District commander Assistant Commissioner Anthony Wagambie Jr has been suspended for 21 days. Wagambie’s suspension comes after an internal investigation by the PNG police Internal Affairs Directorate. Acting Police Commissioner Donald ... <a title="Port Moresby police chief suspended in latest fallout from PNG riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/18/port-moresby-police-chief-suspended-in-latest-fallout-from-png-riots/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby police chief suspended in latest fallout from PNG riots">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2024
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier Last year, the Papua New Guinea government moved in a subtle way into the Fourth Estate. It tried to — and is still trying to — find a way to curtail and restrict your access to mainstream and social media by trying to gag media organisations. Obviously, this was an ... <a title="Post-Courier: Draconian and dangerous move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/post-courier-draconian-and-dangerous-move/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: Draconian and dangerous move">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2024
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Communications Minister Timothy Masiu has announced stringent measures to control social media in the country for the next 10 days of the State of Emergency. The government’s threat drew a sharp rebuke from former prime minister Peter O’Neill who called the move a “sinister fear campaign against the people” and ... <a title="Masiu vows 10-day shutdown of PNG’s social media after capital riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/masiu-vows-10-day-shutdown-of-pngs-social-media-after-capital-riots/" aria-label="Read more about Masiu vows 10-day shutdown of PNG’s social media after capital riots">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
RNZ News Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman — a leading voice in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament for human rights, an independent foreign policy, and justice for Occupied Palestine — was subject to “pretty much continuous” death threats and threats of violence, says party co-leader James Shaw. She has resigned as a Green Party MP ... <a title="Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/former-green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-faced-continuous-death-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’">Read more</a>
