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May 19, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Environmentalists in the Cook Islands have criticised former Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) head Henry Puna for joining the board of a deep sea mining company. Puna, who finished his term as PIF secretary-general in May last year, played a pivotal part in the creation of multi-use ... <a title="Environmentalists question Henry Puna’s role in deep sea mining firm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/environmentalists-question-henry-punas-role-in-deep-sea-mining-firm/" aria-label="Read more about Environmentalists question Henry Puna’s role in deep sea mining firm">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Pacific Media Watch American film star celebrity John Cusack, who describes himself on his x-page bio as an “apocalyptic shit-disturber”, has posted an open letter to the world denouncing the Israeli “mass murder” in Gaza and calling for “your outrage”. While warning the public to “don’t stop talking about Palestine/Gaza”, he says that the “hollow ... <a title="Open letter from John Cusack: ‘The children of Gaza need your outrage – end the siege’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/open-letter-from-john-cusack-the-children-of-gaza-need-your-outrage-end-the-siege/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter from John Cusack: ‘The children of Gaza need your outrage – end the siege’">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
By Gill Bonnett, RNZ immigration reporter This story discusses graphic details of slavery, sexual abuse and violence Pacific children as young as six are being adopted overseas and being made to work as house slaves, suffering threats, beatings and rape. Kris Teikamata — a social worker at a community agency — spoke about the harrowing ... <a title="Pacific children as young as 6 adopted, made to work as house slaves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/pacific-children-as-young-as-6-adopted-made-to-work-as-house-slaves/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific children as young as 6 adopted, made to work as house slaves">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Australia has launched the world’s first UN Police Peacekeeping Training course tailored specifically for the Pacific region. The five-week programme, hosted by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), is underway at the state-of-the-art Pacific Policing Development and Coordination Hub in Pinkenba, Brisbane. AFP said “a landmark step” was developed in partnership with the United Nations, and ... <a title="Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/australia-launches-landmark-un-police-peacekeeping-course-for-pacific-region/" aria-label="Read more about Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – As Israel unveils its final genocide push, and mass death from starvation looms in Gaza, Western media and politicians are tentatively starting to speak up ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Who could have imagined 19 months ago that it would take more than a year and a ... <a title="Why the wall of silence on the Gaza genocide is finally starting to crack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/18/why-the-wall-of-silence-on-the-gaza-genocide-is-finally-starting-to-crack/" aria-label="Read more about Why the wall of silence on the Gaza genocide is finally starting to crack">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2025
Asia Pacific Report About 2000 New Zealand protesters marched through the heart of Auckland city today chanting “no justice, no peace” and many other calls as they demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli atrocities in its brutal war on the besieged Palestinian enclave. For more than 73 days, Israel ... <a title="‘Cracks are opening up’ in Western complicity over Gaza genocide, says Minto" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/18/cracks-are-opening-up-in-western-complicity-over-gaza-genocide-says-minto/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Cracks are opening up’ in Western complicity over Gaza genocide, says Minto">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Fiji’s coalition government are “detached from the values that Fijians hold dear”, says the NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji (NGOCHR). The rights coalition has expressed deep concern over Rabuka’s ongoing engagements with Indonesia. “History will judge how we respond as Fijians to this ... <a title="Fiji rights coalition slams ‘betrayal’ of West Papua for Indonesian benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/17/fiji-rights-coalition-slams-betrayal-of-west-papua-for-indonesian-benefits/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji rights coalition slams ‘betrayal’ of West Papua for Indonesian benefits">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager At this year’s May graduation ceremony, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University’s Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban, was awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition for her contribution to education. Although she has now stepped down from the role, Luamanuvao served as the university’s Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Pasifika, for 14 years. ... <a title="A life of service: celebrating the career of Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/17/a-life-of-service-celebrating-the-career-of-luamanuvao-dame-winnie-laban/" aria-label="Read more about A life of service: celebrating the career of Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England in Christchurch “RNZ is failing in its duty to inform the public of an entirely preventable humanitarian catastrophe.” Tautoko to Jeremy Rose, Ramon Das and Eugene Doyle for this critique of a review of RNZ’s coverage of a genocide. Sadly, this highlights RNZ’s failure to report the genocide from the perspective ... <a title="Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/17/time-for-nz-media-to-ditch-the-propaganda-and-stand-against-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against genocide">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2025
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea (MCPNG) has called on Prime Minister James Marape to stop Telikom PNG silencing and suppressing media personnel. Telikom PNG, which is 100 percent government-owned, has two key outlets: FM100 radio and EMTV. Recently, it sacked FM100 talkback host Culligan Tanda after he featured opposition East Sepik Governor Allan ... <a title="Media Council makes ‘stop Telikom PNG silencing journalists’ plea to PM Marape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/16/media-council-makes-stop-telikom-png-silencing-journalists-plea-to-pm-marape/" aria-label="Read more about Media Council makes ‘stop Telikom PNG silencing journalists’ plea to PM Marape">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2025
By Russel Norman The iconic Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior will return to Aotearoa this year to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original campaign ship at Marsden Wharf in Auckland by French secret agents on 10 July 1985. The return to Aotearoa comes at a pivotal moment — when the fight to ... <a title="Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French bombing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/15/greenpeace-flagship-rainbow-warrior-to-return-for-40th-anniversary-of-french-bombing/" aria-label="Read more about Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French bombing">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The IDF has admitted to bombing a hospital in order to assassinate a prominent Palestinian journalist in Gaza, Hassan Aslih, explicitly stating that they assassinated him for engaging in journalistic activities. The official Israel Defense Forces account made the following post on ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Israel admits it bombed a hospital to kill a journalist for doing journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/14/caitlin-johnstone-israel-admits-it-bombed-a-hospital-to-kill-a-journalist-for-doing-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Israel admits it bombed a hospital to kill a journalist for doing journalism">Read more</a>
