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July 15, 2024
RNZ Pacific Australia has announced more than A$68 million over the next five years to strengthen and expand Australian broadcasting and media sector engagement across the Indo-Pacific. As part of the Indo-Pacific broadcasting strategy, the ABC will receive just over $40m to increase its content for and about the Pacific, expand Radio Australia’s FM transmission ... <a title="Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/australian-strategy-plans-75m-boost-for-indo-pacific-media-development/" aria-label="Read more about Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development">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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May 21, 2022
Policy failure over the last eight years — including a massive cut to the ABC’s international funding — has weakened Australia’s voice in the Pacific to its lowest ebb since the Menzies government established the first radio shortwave service across the region more than 80 years ago. Now, with China’s media expansion and the recent ... <a title="Canberra must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/21/canberra-must-stop-wasting-time-and-urgently-support-abc-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Canberra must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2020
By Radio Australia There have been very few new covid-19 cases confirmed in the Pacific this week. The total number of reported cases since March stands at 261, but because the number of people who have recovered continues to grow, the actual number of active cases is now less than 40. The coronavirus emergency has ... <a title="Pacific Beat: How Pacific governments use coronavirus crisis to curb media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/01/pacific-beat-how-pacific-governments-use-coronavirus-crisis-to-curb-media/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Beat: How Pacific governments use coronavirus crisis to curb media">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2018
Covering the Pacific … “we might even learn a thing or two about the nations and the region within which we live .” Image: Shane McLeod/The Interpreter ANALYSIS: By Mary-Louise O’Callaghan It is both apt and overdue that veteran ABC correspondent Sean Dorney was last night awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Journalism at the 2018 ... <a title="Mary-Louise O’Callaghan: Time we heard the Pacific’s take on the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/24/mary-louise-ocallaghan-time-we-heard-the-pacifics-take-on-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Mary-Louise O’Callaghan: Time we heard the Pacific’s take on the Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2016
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