Independent Analysis and Reportage
Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse the AUKUS Alliance and deep-dive into how the AUKUS Alliance has triggered a geopolitical realignment. Why has this Anglophone AUKUS alliance formed? And what's the fallout?
A View from Afar – LIVE @ MIDDAY Thursday September 30: In this podcast, Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will analyse the AUKUS Alliance and will deep-dive into: How the AUKUS Alliance has triggered a geopolitical realignment. Why has this Anglophone AUKUS alliance formed? And what’s the fallout? What does China do now? How ... <a title="SCHEDULED LIVE @ Midday Thurs Sept 30: AUKUS Alliance Triggers Geopolitical Realignment – Buchanan + Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/scheduled-live-midday-thurs-sept-30-aukus-alliance-triggers-geopolitical-realignment-buchanan-manning/" aria-label="Read more about SCHEDULED LIVE @ Midday Thurs Sept 30: AUKUS Alliance Triggers Geopolitical Realignment – Buchanan + Manning">Read more</a>
RNZ News Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield today gave a briefing on the vaccine rollout and current cases which showed a sharp jump over the past few days. Dr Bloomfield confirmed there were 45 new community cases of covid-19 today – all in Auckland. Of these cases, 33 ... <a title="NZ covid cases jump by 45 – but ‘we’re still aiming to run this into ground’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/nz-covid-cases-jump-by-45-but-were-still-aiming-to-run-this-into-ground/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid cases jump by 45 – but ‘we’re still aiming to run this into ground’">Read more</a>
RNZ Pacific Fiji has reported its first death of a person living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and diagnosed with covid-19. But the Health Ministry said the death was caused by a pre-existing medical condition and not by the delta virus. The ministry said several HIV patients, diagnosed with covid-19 in Fiji, were among 36,724 ... <a title="Fiji reports first death of HIV patient with covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/fiji-reports-first-death-of-hiv-patient-with-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji reports first death of HIV patient with covid-19">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama in Suva Fiji Islands Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is the current Chair of the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum. Addressing the UN General Assembly virtually on September 25, he called on the global community to embrace Fiji’s vision of a “better, greener, bluer and safer future for humanity”. The United Nations ... <a title="Bainimarama: Pacific faces tough climate, disease challenges – world leaders need to rise up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/bainimarama-pacific-faces-tough-climate-disease-challenges-world-leaders-need-to-rise-up/" aria-label="Read more about Bainimarama: Pacific faces tough climate, disease challenges – world leaders need to rise up">Read more</a>
By Rita Peki in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea Two deaths with two patients in critical condition is the status at one of Papua New Guinea’s leading hospitals as the covid-19 pandemic continues to create havoc along with an acute shortage of operational funds. Mount Hagen Provincial Hospital in Western Highlands Province — owed K1.6 ... <a title="Covid surge threatens PNG’s Mt Hagen hospital with ‘closure by Christmas’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/covid-surge-threatens-pngs-mt-hagen-hospital-with-closure-by-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about Covid surge threatens PNG’s Mt Hagen hospital with ‘closure by Christmas’">Read more</a>
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk A new poll shows nearly two out of three New Zealanders want the border to remain closed until at least 90 percent of the country is vaccinated. The poll, in partnership with the country’s leading daily newspaper The New Zealand Herald, which is also running a 90% Project in support of ... <a title="Two thirds of New Zealanders favour border ‘safety first’, says Herald poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/two-thirds-of-new-zealanders-favour-border-safety-first-says-herald-poll/" aria-label="Read more about Two thirds of New Zealanders favour border ‘safety first’, says Herald poll">Read more</a>
EDITORIAL: By the Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley Fiji’s Assistant Minister for iTaukei Affairs Selai Adimaitoga said quite a lot on Friday in her end of week statement on the Media Industry Development Act 2010 in Parliament. She blamed reckless reporting by journalists as “one of the causes of violence and economic destruction over the ... <a title="The Fiji Times: The role of the media – holding power to account" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/the-fiji-times-the-role-of-the-media-holding-power-to-account/" aria-label="Read more about The Fiji Times: The role of the media – holding power to account">Read more</a>
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua human rights activist and lawyer Veronica Koman has called for an independent inquiry into the attack on health workers in the Kiwirok district, Star Highlands, Papua, saying there are two versions of how the tragedy happened. A healthcare worker, 22-year-old Gabriella Maelani, was killed during the attack by the West ... <a title="Lawyer Koman calls for inquiry into tragic death of health worker in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/lawyer-koman-calls-for-inquiry-into-tragic-death-of-health-worker-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Lawyer Koman calls for inquiry into tragic death of health worker in Papua">Read more</a>
RNZ Pacific A group of doctors have hit the phones to support Pasifika families who have tested positive for covid-19 and been transferred into managed isolation. The chairperson of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs’ Pasifika chapter, Monica Liva, said about half the people infected with the virus in Auckland were Pasifika. She contacted ... <a title="Doctors rally on phone to help Pasifika families in isolation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/doctors-rally-on-phone-to-help-pasifika-families-in-isolation/" aria-label="Read more about Doctors rally on phone to help Pasifika families in isolation">Read more</a>
RNZ News New Zealand has 16 community cases of covid-19 today, according to the Ministry of Health. In a statement, the ministry said 13 of today’s 16 cases had been epidemiologically linked to previous cases. There have been 10 unlinked cases in the past fortnight. There was also one historical community case not associated with ... <a title="NZ reports 16 new community covid cases after drop to single figures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/nz-reports-16-new-community-covid-cases-after-drop-to-single-figures/" aria-label="Read more about NZ reports 16 new community covid cases after drop to single figures">Read more</a>
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has blamed the Indonesian military over the attack at a hospital in Kiwirok, near the Papua New Guinean border, in which a nurse was killed. Interim president Benny Wenda of the ULMWP has issued a statement in response to accusations by the Indonesian authorities ... <a title="Wenda blames nurse’s death on Indonesian military crackdown for Papuan mining, palm oil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/wenda-blames-nurses-death-on-indonesian-military-crackdown-for-papuan-mining-palm-oil/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda blames nurse’s death on Indonesian military crackdown for Papuan mining, palm oil">Read more</a>