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The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide – why their role will haunt them

November 13, 2025

UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese talks to journalist Chris Hedges about her new report that examines how 60+ countries are complicit in Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity demonstrated to the world in a “livestreamed atrocity”. INTERVIEW: The Chris Hedges Report After two years of genocide, it is no longer possible to ... <a title="The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide – why their role will haunt them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/13/the-60-un-member-states-complicit-with-the-gaza-genocide-why-their-role-will-haunt-them/" aria-label="Read more about The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide – why their role will haunt them">Read more</a>

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Filep Karma: A political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua

November 1, 2024

SPECIAL REPORT: By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta In December 2008, I visited the Abepura prison in Jayapura, West Papua, to verify a report sent to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture alleging abuses inside the jailhouse, as well as shortages of food and water. After prison guards checked my bag, I passed through a ... <a title="Filep Karma: A political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/01/filep-karma-a-political-prisoner-who-fought-racism-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Filep Karma: A political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua">Read more</a>

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Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities

June 7, 2023

RNZ Pacific Community leaders around Panguna mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville want mining giant Rio Tinto to help out following recent flooding. Rio Tinto was the owner/operator of the mine which has laid derelict for more than 30 years. Fears of the threat from flooding in the river system near ... <a title="Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/07/bougainville-leaders-call-on-mining-giant-rio-tinto-to-assist-communities/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities">Read more</a>

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‘Shameful wage stealing’ endemic at Australian universities, says report

March 1, 2023

By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney A National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) report claims that “wage theft has shamefully become an endemic part of universities’ business models” while Australia’s biggest public universities record massive surpluses and their vice-chancellors earn more than A$1 million a year in wages. The union report, released late last month and titled ... <a title="‘Shameful wage stealing’ endemic at Australian universities, says report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/shameful-wage-stealing-endemic-at-australian-universities-says-report/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Shameful wage stealing’ endemic at Australian universities, says report">Read more</a>

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An update on the ‘good governance coup’ – political will, corruption in Fiji

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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Narrow window to halt climate change catastrophe, says Pacific Forum chief

August 13, 2021

RNZ Pacific The world is on the brink of a climate catastrophe, with just a narrow window for action to reverse global processes predicted to cause devastating effects in the Pacific and world-wide, says the leader of the 18-nation Pacific Islands Forum. Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna said a major UN scientific report released on Monday ... <a title="Narrow window to halt climate change catastrophe, says Pacific Forum chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/13/narrow-window-to-halt-climate-change-catastrophe-says-pacific-forum-chief/" aria-label="Read more about Narrow window to halt climate change catastrophe, says Pacific Forum chief">Read more</a>

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Climate change has already hit. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns

August 10, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Michael Grose, CSIRO; Joelle Gergis, Australian National University; Pep Canadell, CSIRO, and Roshanka Ranasinghe Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen for thousands of years and may warm by 4℃ or more this century, according to the highly anticipated report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The assessment, released ... <a title="Climate change has already hit. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/climate-change-has-already-hit-unless-we-act-now-a-hotter-drier-and-more-dangerous-future-awaits-ipcc-warns/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change has already hit. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns">Read more</a>

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He Puapua report proposals bogged down in ‘swamp of politics’

May 10, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Meriana Johnsen, RNZ News political reporter It was supposed to chart a new way forward but He Puapua, a report on how the government can uphold tangata whenua rights by giving affect to tino rangatiratanga, has become bogged down in the swamp of politics. New Zealand was one of four countries that voted ... <a title="He Puapua report proposals bogged down in ‘swamp of politics’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/10/he-puapua-report-proposals-bogged-down-in-swamp-of-politics/" aria-label="Read more about He Puapua report proposals bogged down in ‘swamp of politics’">Read more</a>

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Digital news check: In media, we don’t trust

May 1, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Tim Murphy and Mark Jennings, co-editors of Newsroom Less than half the New Zealand public now professes “overall trust” in news media outlets, despite big rises in audience numbers during the covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis. The 2021 Trust in News in New Zealand survey released yesterday found the level of overall trust ... <a title="Digital news check: In media, we don’t trust" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/01/digital-news-check-in-media-we-dont-trust/" aria-label="Read more about Digital news check: In media, we don’t trust">Read more</a>

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How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis

March 10, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala The arrest, detention, and deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife are significant issues for Fiji and the “Sea of Islands”. As a son of the Pacific committed to Oceania, I am dismayed by recent events at USP. I write in support of all the ... <a title="How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/how-fiji-could-help-resolve-the-pal-ahluwalia-and-usp-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis">Read more</a>

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Independence for Kanaky: A media and political stalemate or a ‘three strikes’ Frexit challenge?

July 17, 2019

Figure 10: A Kanak voter wearing a ‘Kanaky New Caledonia’ flag tee shirt at the Loyalty Islands special polling booth in Vallee du Tir, Noumea. Image: David Robie David Robie Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Abstract The French-ruled territory of New Caledonia, or Kanaky, as Indigenous pro-independence campaigners call their cigar-shaped islands, voted on their political ... <a title="Independence for Kanaky: A media and political stalemate or a ‘three strikes’ Frexit challenge?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/17/independence-for-kanaky-a-media-and-political-stalemate-or-a-three-strikes-frexit-challenge/" aria-label="Read more about Independence for Kanaky: A media and political stalemate or a ‘three strikes’ Frexit challenge?">Read more</a>

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PMC’s mid-winter smorgasbord video, PJR and website ‘launch’ fono

July 16, 2019

Event date and time:  Friday, July 26, 2019 – 17:00 – 18:30 JOIN US for this Pacific Media Centre‘s smorgasbord “launch” mid-winter fono and celebration for: + Two new documentaries on climate change and media freedom + The latest Pacific Journalism Review themed on “The NZ Mosque Massacre: Dilemmas for Journalism and Democracy” + The ... <a title="PMC’s mid-winter smorgasbord video, PJR and website ‘launch’ fono" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/pmcs-mid-winter-smorgasbord-video-pjr-and-website-launch-fono/" aria-label="Read more about PMC’s mid-winter smorgasbord video, PJR and website ‘launch’ fono">Read more</a>