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August 26, 2020
By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ One Pacific correspondent Frontline Pasifika healthcare teams have been given a NZ$19.5 million funding boost in New Zealand as they work around the clock to fight covid-19 at the community level. A mobile team from health provider, The Fono, is just one of several critical to stemming the tide of covid-19 ... <a title="Frontline Pasifika healthcare teams given $19.5m boost to fight covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/26/frontline-pasifika-healthcare-teams-given-19-5m-boost-to-fight-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Frontline Pasifika healthcare teams given $19.5m boost to fight covid-19">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2020
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific Journalist A call has been made to members of the Pacific community in New Zealand to check on loved ones during the current Auckland lockdown and to remember there is no stigma or shame in getting tested for covid-19. Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath, co-head of the School of Māori Studies ... <a title="‘Covid-19 knows no ethnicity, so don’t stigmatise,’ says Komiti Pasefika" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/22/covid-19-knows-no-ethnicity-so-dont-stigmatise-says-komiti-pasefika/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Covid-19 knows no ethnicity, so don’t stigmatise,’ says Komiti Pasefika">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
COMMENT: By Teuila Fuatai South Auckland and its communities, specifically Pasifika, are at the centre of New Zealand’s current covid-19 cluster. As a result, media coverage, health information and public reaction have taken a significantly different tone to what occurred during New Zealand’s first wave of cases. Racism and misinformation continue to marginalise the “index” ... <a title="Teuila Fuatai: Vitriol harms Pasifika as much as the covid pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/teuila-fuatai-vitriol-harms-pasifika-as-much-as-the-covid-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Teuila Fuatai: Vitriol harms Pasifika as much as the covid pandemic">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2020
By Jean Bell, RNZ News journalist Some South Auckland locals are hitting back at online hate directed at the area and its Pasifika community, after a local family was the first to test positive for covid-19 in the current New Zealand outbreak. Four positive cases ballooned to a 58-case cluster after 102 days of no ... <a title="South Auckland locals hit back against online hate around NZ covid cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/18/south-auckland-locals-hit-back-against-online-hate-around-nz-covid-cases/" aria-label="Read more about South Auckland locals hit back against online hate around NZ covid cases">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent Pasifika family or just an Auckland family? There has been much debate over whether it was wrong to identify the family at the centre of New Zealand’s covid-cluster as a “Pasifika family”. As Pacific correspondent let me make this clear – it would have been the absolute peak ... <a title="Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika? Yes we should, and here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/barbara-dreaver-should-we-identify-the-first-covid-family-as-pasifika-yes-we-should-and-heres-why/" aria-label="Read more about Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika? Yes we should, and here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch After Australia’s misguided attempts at handing over $17.1 of Australian-made television content to the Pacific region last month with programmes such as Neighbours and Border Control, questions have been asked about a $10 million New Zealand grant made in 2018. At the 2018 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) meeting ... <a title="NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/nzs-10m-grant-for-pasifika-tv-channel-mfat-clears-the-air/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the air">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2020
By Sela Jane Hopgood of RNZ Pacific The cancellation of this year’s New Zealand Pasifika Festival in Auckland because of coronavirus fears is expected to be a huge financial blow for some stallholders. Dutchie Low, from Hawaiian Pineapple Hut, said he found out about the cancellation on Facebook, which was then followed by a few ... <a title="NZ’s canned Pasifika Festival a financial blow for stallholders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/13/nzs-canned-pasifika-festival-a-financial-blow-for-stallholders/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s canned Pasifika Festival a financial blow for stallholders">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
By Ayla Miller Pasifika people in New Zealand need to take charge against climate change which is already threatening their home islands, an Auckland hui has heard. Political leaders have been too slow, warned climate experts, community, youth and Pasifika leaders who were joined at the Roskill Climate Restart hui by Minister for Climate Change ... <a title="NZ hui urges local climate action to help Pacific Islands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/nz-hui-urges-local-climate-action-to-help-pacific-islands/" aria-label="Read more about NZ hui urges local climate action to help Pacific Islands">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2019
Educate to Liberate curators Pauline Smith and Ari Edgecombe … a window on the police and immigration crackdown on illegal “overstayers” in the 1970s. Image: Michael Andrew/PMW By Michael Andrew An exhibition about the infamous Dawn Raids” in the 1970s has opened in South Auckland, providing a window into a painful chapter of New Zealand’s ... <a title="Dawn Raids – Pasifika ‘liberated’ to talk about painful past" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/10/dawn-raids-pasifika-liberated-to-talk-about-painful-past/" aria-label="Read more about Dawn Raids – Pasifika ‘liberated’ to talk about painful past">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2019
By Colin Peacock of RNZ Mediawatch Newstalk ZB broadcaster Heather du Plessis-Allan has been censured for Pacific Island slurs in a ruling that contains uncharacteristically strong language from the official broadcasting watchdog. It may end up costing NZME more than the $3000 the company must cough up in costs. On her Newstalk ZB show Wellington ... <a title="Mediawatch: Broadcaster’s Pacific slurs on Newstalk ZB censured" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/07/mediawatch-broadcasters-pacific-slurs-on-newstalk-zb-censured/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Broadcaster’s Pacific slurs on Newstalk ZB censured">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Geraldine Lopdell’s family was looking for a fitting way to celebrate a “life well lived” when they decided to set up one of AUT’s newest awards. During life, Geraldine had been an excellent teacher and artist, a supportive and generous friend and a captivating storyteller with an adventurous spirit. Her early years were spent in ... <a title="A life well lived paves way to encourage Pasifika women in communication" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/a-life-well-lived-paves-way-to-encourage-pasifika-women-in-communication/" aria-label="Read more about A life well lived paves way to encourage Pasifika women in communication">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2018
A look at the lives of Pacific islanders who choose to ignore or struggle to embrace their heritage. Video: Plastic Polynesia trailer By Leilani Sitagata Two final-year communication studies students at Auckland University of Technology decided for their end-of-year project to film a mini documentary about what it means to be a “plastic” islander. The ... <a title="Telling the real stories behind ‘plastic’ Pacific islanders and stereotypes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/19/telling-the-real-stories-behind-plastic-pacific-islanders-and-stereotypes/" aria-label="Read more about Telling the real stories behind ‘plastic’ Pacific islanders and stereotypes">Read more</a>
