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October 8, 2025
New Zealanders deserve to know how the country’s foreign policy is made, writes John Hobbs. ANALYSIS: By John Hobbs The New Zealand government remains unwilling to support Palestinian statehood recognition at the United Nations General Assembly. This is a disgraceful position which gives support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and seriously undermines our standing. Of ... <a title="John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our global standing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/john-hobbs-why-new-zealands-repugnant-stance-over-palestine-damages-our-global-standing/" aria-label="Read more about John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our global standing">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva Social cohesion is a national responsibility, and everyone, including the media, should support government’s efforts, according to Dr Shailendra Singh, associate professor in Pacific Journalism at the University of the South Pacific. While the news media are often accused of exacerbating conflict by amplifying ethnic tensions through biased narratives, media ... <a title="How media could help social cohesion and unite people – a Fiji journalism educator’s view" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/how-media-could-help-social-cohesion-and-unite-people-a-fiji-journalism-educators-view/" aria-label="Read more about How media could help social cohesion and unite people – a Fiji journalism educator’s view">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
REVIEW: By Rowan Callick Radio Australia was conceived at the beginning of the Second World War out of Canberra’s desire to counter Japanese propaganda in the Pacific. More than 70 years later its rebirth is being driven by a similarly urgent need to counter propaganda, this time from China. Set up within the towering framework ... <a title="Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/speaking-to-the-world-but-mirroring-australias-off-again-on-again-pacific-engagement/" aria-label="Read more about Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2022
UQ News Journalists may face decades in prison for “foreign interference” offences unless urgent changes are made to Australia’s national security laws, according to a University of Queensland researcher. PhD candidate Sarah Kendall from UQ’s School of Law warned that reporting on issues relating to Australian politics, national security or international relations while working with ... <a title="Journalists risk prosecution under Australia’s ‘foreign interference’ law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/06/journalists-risk-prosecution-under-australias-foreign-interference-law/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists risk prosecution under Australia’s ‘foreign interference’ law">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report “Public interest journalism plays a crucial role in promoting the quality of public life, protecting individuals from misconduct on the part of government and the private sector, and giving real content to the public’s ‘right to know’.” – The Crucial Role of Public Interest Journalism in Australia ... <a title="Perceptions over NZ’s public interest journalism project – saint or sinner?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/perceptions-over-nzs-public-interest-journalism-project-saint-or-sinner/" aria-label="Read more about Perceptions over NZ’s public interest journalism project – saint or sinner?">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2021
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>
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April 6, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT – by Selwyn Manning. On Tuesday, March 30, we lodged a series of questions to the Minister of Immigration Kris Faafoi, seeking answers to allegations that 10 Chinese workers, who were detained in custody pending deportation orders, were in fact victims of a human trafficking scam. Throughout last week, the ten workers’ lawyer, ... <a title="SPECIAL REPORT: Bureaucratic Silence Surrounds Immigration New Zealand Deportation Move – Is This a Case of Human Trafficking + Black Labour?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/special-report-bureaucratic-silence-surrounds-immigration-new-zealand-deportation-move-is-this-a-case-of-human-trafficking-black-labour/" aria-label="Read more about SPECIAL REPORT: Bureaucratic Silence Surrounds Immigration New Zealand Deportation Move – Is This a Case of Human Trafficking + Black Labour?">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2020
A clip from This Is Not A Movie, a 2020 documentary by about Robert Fisk. Video: Doc Edge Festival Veteran journalist Robert Fisk, who for decades covered events in the Middle East and elsewhere as a foreign correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, has died after suffering a suspected stroke at his Dublin home. ... <a title="Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/04/robert-fisks-message-journalists-should-challenge-the-narratives-of-power/" aria-label="Read more about Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
Editorial by Selwyn Manning. It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their want to GET their opponents – the Ardern Government – ahead of concerns that Covid-19 was potentially un-contained and again infecting New Zealanders. Is this a step too far for the Todd Muller-led party? ... <a title="Editorial: Snakes and Mirrors – National Sat On Covid-19 Infection Information For Hours Before Dropping Political Bombshell In Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/editorial-snakes-and-mirrors-national-sat-on-covid-19-infection-information-for-hours-before-dropping-political-bombshell-in-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Editorial: Snakes and Mirrors – National Sat On Covid-19 Infection Information For Hours Before Dropping Political Bombshell In Parliament">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2020
Pacific Media Watch An Australian federal court decision upholding the legality of the police raid on the Sydney headquarters of the national public broadcaster ABC last June has dealt a major blow to the protection of journalists’ sources and poses a grave danger for the future of public interest journalism, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF). ... <a title="Australian court ruling another threat to whistleblower protection, says RSF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/21/australian-court-ruling-another-threat-to-whistleblower-protection-says-rsf/" aria-label="Read more about Australian court ruling another threat to whistleblower protection, says RSF">Read more</a>
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January 7, 2020
Are our politicians doing a good job? Are they on top of the urgent problems that need fixing? These are some of the big questions that have arisen from reflecting on the last year in politics, especially as we shift into an election year. Yesterday’s Political Roundup looked at the politicians who performed strongly in ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Are politicians delivering for New Zealanders?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/07/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-are-politicians-delivering-for-new-zealanders/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Are politicians delivering for New Zealanders?">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2019
OPEN LETTER: By Keith Jackson I joined the Australian Journalists Association (now the MEAA – Media Alliance) in, I think, 1971, when I still lived and worked in Papua New Guinea. When I formally retired from paid work a few years back, I was given honorary membership but, to bolster the journalism profession and its ... <a title="Keith Jackson: Act now over grave threat facing Australian press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/15/keith-jackson-act-now-over-grave-threat-facing-australian-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Jackson: Act now over grave threat facing Australian press freedom">Read more</a>
