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March 20, 2024
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Sexual harassment of women journalists continues to be a major problem in Fiji journalism and “issues of power lie at the heart of this”, new research has revealed. The study, published in Journalism Practice by researchers from the University of Vienna and the University ... <a title="Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/sexual-harassment-of-fijis-women-journalists-concerningly-widespread/" aria-label="Read more about Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
The War on Gaza will be etched in the memories of generations to come — the brutality of Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack, and the ferocity of Israel’s retaliation. In this Four Corners investigative report, The Forever War, broadcast in Australia last night, ABC’s global affairs editor John Lyons asks the tough questions — challenging ... <a title="‘The Forever War’ – ABC Four Corners reports on the assault on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/the-forever-war-abc-four-corners-reports-on-the-assault-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The Forever War’ – ABC Four Corners reports on the assault on Gaza">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2024
A Pasifika health leader says high obesity rates in the Pacific are not new, but an increase in childhood obesity is concerning. A study on worldwide trends in underweight and obesity, just published in The Lancet medical journal showed that the highest rates of obesity for women were in Tonga and American Samoa, and Nauru ... <a title="Food industry, lack of exercise key to childhood obesity, says Sir Collin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/04/food-industry-lack-of-exercise-key-to-childhood-obesity-says-sir-collin/" aria-label="Read more about Food industry, lack of exercise key to childhood obesity, says Sir Collin">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
By Kalinga Seneviratne The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Tuvalu Campus, located in the capital Funafuti, is perhaps the smallest university in the world, but it offers a distinctive service. The nation of Tuvalu comprises nine small atoll islands which have a combined population of just 11,400. The Tuvalu Campus itself is restricted to ... <a title="World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/worlds-smallest-university-but-tuvalu-campus-has-big-local-impact/" aria-label="Read more about World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University The ACT Party’s election promise of a referendum for Aotearoa New Zealand to redefine and enshrine the “principles” of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) is likely to dominate debate at this year’s Rātana and Waitangi Day events. ACT’s coalition agreement with the National Party commits ... <a title="Waitangi 2024: how NZ’s Tiriti strengthens democracy and checks unbridled power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/26/waitangi-2024-how-nzs-tiriti-strengthens-democracy-and-checks-unbridled-power/" aria-label="Read more about Waitangi 2024: how NZ’s Tiriti strengthens democracy and checks unbridled power">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Cassandra Mudgway, University of Canterbury The high-stress nature of working in politics is increasingly taking a toll on staff and politicians. But an additional threat to the personal wellbeing and safety of politicians resides outside Parliament, and the threat is ubiquitous: online violence against women MPs. Since her election in 2017, Green Party ... <a title="Golriz Ghahraman’s exit from politics shows the toll of online bullying on female MPs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/golriz-ghahramans-exit-from-politics-shows-the-toll-of-online-bullying-on-female-mps/" aria-label="Read more about Golriz Ghahraman’s exit from politics shows the toll of online bullying on female MPs">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Terence Wood In the wake of New Zealand’s recent election, and subsequent coalition negotiations, Winston Peters has emerged as New Zealand’s Foreign Minister again. I’ve never been able to adequately explain why a populist politician leading a party called New Zealand First would have an interest in a post that takes him overseas ... <a title="Peters has track record but NZ aid policy still hard to figure out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/01/peters-has-track-record-but-nz-aid-policy-still-hard-to-figure-out/" aria-label="Read more about Peters has track record but NZ aid policy still hard to figure out">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2023
REVIEW: By David Robie Just months before the outbreak of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza after the deadly assault on southern Israel by Hamas resistance fighters, Australian investigative journalist and researcher Antony Loewenstein published an extraordinarily timely book, The Palestine Laboratory. In it he warned that a worst-case scenario — “long feared but never ... <a title="Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/25/behind-the-war-on-gaza-how-israel-profits-globally-from-repression/" aria-label="Read more about Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2023
By Debrin Foxcroft, Finlay Macdonald, Matt Garrow and Veronika Meduna, The Conversation From winning a single-party majority in 2020, Labour’s vote has virtually halved in 2023 in the Aotearoa New Zealand general election. Pre-election polls appear to have under-estimated support for National, which on the provisional results last night can form a government with ACT ... <a title="NZ elections 2023: It’s National on the night as New Zealand turns right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/15/nz-elections-2023-its-national-on-the-night-as-new-zealand-turns-right/" aria-label="Read more about NZ elections 2023: It’s National on the night as New Zealand turns right">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Ella Stewart, RNZ News longform journalist, Te Ao Māori National Party leader Christopher Luxon made claims about health outcomes that were clearly false. Why was he left unchallenged? In the TVNZ leaders’ debate last night, Luxon and Labour’s Chris Hipkins had a testy exchange over Māori healthcare. Hipkins held firm on the creation ... <a title="NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood in debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/27/nz-election-2023-exposing-national-leader-christopher-luxons-maori-health-falsehood-in-debate/" aria-label="Read more about NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood in debate">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2023
A recent webinar hosted by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) brought together minds from across the region to delve into the intricate issues of the digital economy and data value. The webinar’s focus was clear — shed light on who was shaping the rules of the digital landscape and how these rules were taking ... <a title="Bid to protect Pacific indigenous knowledge in the global digital space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/26/bid-to-protect-pacific-indigenous-knowledge-in-the-global-digital-space/" aria-label="Read more about Bid to protect Pacific indigenous knowledge in the global digital space">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Annie Te One, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington In his maiden speech to Parliament in 2020, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi told his fellow MPs: You know what it feels like to have a pebble in your shoe? That will be my job here. A constant, annoying to those ... <a title="NZ election 2023: From ‘pebble in the shoe’ to future power broker – the rise and rise of Te Pāti Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/22/nz-election-2023-from-pebble-in-the-shoe-to-future-power-broker-the-rise-and-rise-of-te-pati-maori/" aria-label="Read more about NZ election 2023: From ‘pebble in the shoe’ to future power broker – the rise and rise of Te Pāti Māori">Read more</a>
