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January 1, 2023
2022 PACIFIC REVIEW: By David Robie The Pacific year started with a ferocious eruption and global tsunami in Tonga, but by the year’s end several political upheavals had also shaken the region with a vengeance. A razor’s edge election in Fiji blew away a long entrenched authoritarian regime with a breath of fresh air for ... <a title="David Robie: 2022 Pacific political upheavals eclipse Tongan volcano" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/01/david-robie-2022-pacific-political-upheavals-eclipse-tongan-volcano/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie: 2022 Pacific political upheavals eclipse Tongan volcano">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop is stable and recovering at the Gold Coast University Hospital in Australia, according to his wife Jean Parkop and close family members. The relieving news comes following Governor Parkop’s medivac from Papua New Guinea to Australia after he suffered complications arising from a ... <a title="Port Moresby governor Parkop stable and recovering after cardiac scare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/29/port-moresby-governor-parkop-stable-and-recovering-after-cardiac-scare/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby governor Parkop stable and recovering after cardiac scare">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea lawbreakers who disrupt public order and ruin other people’s festive season will be arrested, charged and be placed in police cells across the country, says Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr. As the festive weekend commences this Friday, provincial police commands across the country are already ... <a title="PNG police warn of crackdown on lawbreakers during festive period" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/19/png-police-warn-of-crackdown-on-lawbreakers-during-festive-period/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police warn of crackdown on lawbreakers during festive period">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya “We are part of them and they are part of us,” declared politician Augustine Rapa, founder and president of the PNG Liberal Democratic Party, on the 61st anniversary of the struggle for West Papuan independence earlier this month. Rapa’s statement of West Papua at Gerehu, Port Moresby, on December 1 was ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: While West Papuans face an ‘existential threat’ under Indonesia, PNG plans defence pact with Jakarta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/15/yamin-kogoya-while-west-papuans-face-an-existential-threat-under-indonesia-png-plans-defence-pact-with-jakarta/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: While West Papuans face an ‘existential threat’ under Indonesia, PNG plans defence pact with Jakarta">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinean Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey has clarified that the miscellaneous item of K2.6 billion in the budget will be spent on settling superannuation payments for government employees, unpaid rental bills and final entitlements to retired public servants, among other expenses. “The budget is broken up into many lines of expenditure,” he said. ... <a title="PNG Treasurer explains K2.6b ‘miscellaneous’ budget costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/png-treasurer-explains-k2-6b-miscellaneous-budget-costs/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Treasurer explains K2.6b ‘miscellaneous’ budget costs">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
In 2006, Fiji’s current Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama, seized power from a government that had been elected only seven months earlier. Named the “good governance coup”, the takeover was justified by concerns about corruption as well as racism. Sixteen years later, Fiji is about to go to the polls for the third time since Bainimarama ... <a title="An update on the ‘good governance coup’ – political will, corruption in Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/an-update-on-the-good-governance-coup-political-will-corruption-in-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about An update on the ‘good governance coup’ – political will, corruption in Fiji">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
The Sunday Bulletin Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape says it is very disappointing that foreign-owned media in the country continue to run “fake news”. He said this after an editorial in the Malaysian-owned National on Wednesday claimed that former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had “rubbished” Papua New Guinea at the PNG Mining ... <a title="Marape blasts foreign media, claiming ‘fake news’ on mining conference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/marape-blasts-foreign-media-claiming-fake-news-on-mining-conference/" aria-label="Read more about Marape blasts foreign media, claiming ‘fake news’ on mining conference">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2022
OPEN LETTER: The Ōtepoti Declaration by the Indigenous Caucus of the Nuclear Connections Across Oceania Conference On the 61st anniversary of the first raising of West Papua’s symbol of independence — 1 December 1961 — the Morning Star flag: We, the Indigenous caucus of the movement for self-determination, decolonisation, nuclear justice, and demilitarisation of the ... <a title="Oceania Indigenous ‘guardians’ call for self-determination on West Papua day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/01/oceania-indigenous-guardians-call-for-self-determination-on-west-papua-day/" aria-label="Read more about Oceania Indigenous ‘guardians’ call for self-determination on West Papua day">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has sent his condolences to the family of the policeman killed in Hela province. He called on the suspects to surrender and for witnesses to assist police with their investigation into the killing of Senior Constable Nelson Kalimda. “I call upon all ... <a title="Marape condemns killing of PNG policeman, says sorry to family" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/02/marape-condemns-killing-of-png-policeman-says-sorry-to-family/" aria-label="Read more about Marape condemns killing of PNG policeman, says sorry to family">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2022
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Local government officials in Papua New Guinea have offered a cash reward for information after the body of policeman Senior Constable Nelson Kalimda — whose body went missing in Tari, Hela — was found yesterday in Margarima. The body of Papua New Guinean policeman Constable Nelson Kalimda — who ... <a title="Missing PNG cop found dead, police chief vows ‘swift justice’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/01/missing-png-cop-found-dead-police-chief-vows-swift-justice/" aria-label="Read more about Missing PNG cop found dead, police chief vows ‘swift justice’">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2022
RNZ Pacific The Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) wants to delay the next meeting of the Joint Supervisory Body with the Papua New Guinea government, claiming Port Moresby is “dragging the chain” on drawing up critical constitutional regulations.. The key focus of the ABG is on achieving independence by 2027 by the latest. This latest dispute ... <a title="Bougainville says PNG ‘dragging chain’ over independence issue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/29/bougainville-says-png-dragging-chain-over-independence-issue/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville says PNG ‘dragging chain’ over independence issue">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2022
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Education Department headquarters in Waigani, National Capital District (NCD), will be locked by 5pm on Monday if the state fails to pay K39 million (NZ$19 million) in unpaid rent. The arrears — accumulating since 2017 — are owed to Grand Columbia Limited, owner of Fincorp Haus. ... <a title="PNG’s Education Department faces lockout over K39m unpaid rent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/29/pngs-education-department-faces-lockout-over-k39m-unpaid-rent/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Education Department faces lockout over K39m unpaid rent">Read more</a>
