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March 22, 2021
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist A Pacific social justice movement is calling on the New Zealand government to formally apologise for the Dawn Raids of the 1970s. The Labour and then National governments of the time authorised police raids on Pasifika homes and work places, to check for overstayers; even churches and schools were ... <a title="Appeal for NZ government to offer apology for race-based Dawn Raids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/appeal-for-nz-government-to-offer-apology-for-race-based-dawn-raids/" aria-label="Read more about Appeal for NZ government to offer apology for race-based Dawn Raids">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist The race is on to reach Pasifika communities in New Zealand to counter the spread of misinformation about the covid-19 vaccine. Pacific and Māori communities have the highest risk of dying from covid-19 and that has caused leaders and doctors within this group to work hard to dispel fears ... <a title="Battle to spread truth about covid-19 vaccine in Pacific communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/battle-to-spread-truth-about-covid-19-vaccine-in-pacific-communities/" aria-label="Read more about Battle to spread truth about covid-19 vaccine in Pacific communities">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons tests says Paris must pay for the full extent of health and other damage caused. Ena Manuireva is a doctoral candidate at Auckland University of Technology. He responds to RNZ’s ... <a title="Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/tahitian-academic-says-paris-must-pay-for-impacts-of-french-nuclear-tests/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
A pioneering indigenous activist is being farewelled today after losing a short battle with cancer. Miriama Rauhihi Ness was a member of the Polynesian Panthers and Ngā Tamatoa movements, fighting for both Māori and Pasifika rights in New Zealand. Will ‘Ilolahia, a founding member of the Polynesian Panthers, said Rauhihi Ness was always on the ... <a title="Pioneering Polynesian Panther indigenous rights activist farewelled" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/pioneering-polynesian-panther-indigenous-rights-activist-farewelled/" aria-label="Read more about Pioneering Polynesian Panther indigenous rights activist farewelled">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2021
RNZ News Australia is facing condemnation from National and Green Party MPs over the deportation of a 15-year-old boy to New Zealand. Little detail has been made public about the teen other than that he is being held in a quarantine facility and is receiving support from Oranga Tamariki. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ... <a title="Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/australias-deportation-of-15-year-old-boy-heartbreaking-says-green-mp/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2021
By Katie Doyle of RNZ News A new anti-vaccine publication with links to the Advance New Zealand fringe political party should be ripped up and thrown in the bin, a health expert says. From Te Puke, Dr Christine Williams discovered the magazine in her work staff room. It had been brought in by a concerned ... <a title="NZ covid: Calls to dump ‘dangerous’ fringe anti-vaccine magazine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/13/nz-covid-calls-to-dump-dangerous-fringe-anti-vaccine-magazine/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid: Calls to dump ‘dangerous’ fringe anti-vaccine magazine">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2021
By RNZ Pacific Fijians have been urged to register as the government’s covid-19 vaccination campaign got underway this week. The vaccine rollout started on Wednesday following the arrival of 12,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine last weekend. Since the vaccine requires two doses, 6000 front-line workers will get the first jabs. But the government said ... <a title="Government pleads with Fijians to register to vaccinate against covid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/13/government-pleads-with-fijians-to-register-to-vaccinate-against-covid/" aria-label="Read more about Government pleads with Fijians to register to vaccinate against covid">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2021
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is hard not to feel like New Zealand is having a run of bad luck, with residents waking up today to a tsunami alert amid the covid-19 restrictions. The tsunami alert was triggered after three quakes overnight – the first of 7.3 magnitude struck about 2.30am ... <a title="NZ the ‘unlucky shaky isles’, says Ardern after tsunami alert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/06/nz-the-unlucky-shaky-isles-says-ardern-after-tsunami-alert/" aria-label="Read more about NZ the ‘unlucky shaky isles’, says Ardern after tsunami alert">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2021
By RNZ News An 8.0 earthquake has struck near the Kermadec Islands, hours after a 7.4 quake near the Kermadecs and a 7.1 off the North Island coast, A 7.4 quake struck near the Kermadec Islands earlier this morning. The islands are 800km to 1000km from New Zealand. National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said people ... <a title="Major 8.0 quake at Kermadecs, NZ warning for people to move higher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/major-8-0-quake-at-kermadecs-nz-warning-for-people-to-move-higher/" aria-label="Read more about Major 8.0 quake at Kermadecs, NZ warning for people to move higher">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
By RNZ News New Zealand’s Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says the actions of the Destiny Church leaders in leaving Auckland on the eve of the alert level 3 lockdown were “completely irresponsible”. Earlier today it was revealed that church leaders Brian and Hannah Tamaki left Auckland on Saturday night, arriving around midnight in Rotorua, ... <a title="NZ covid: Destiny Church leaders actions ‘completely irresponsible’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/nz-covid-destiny-church-leaders-actions-completely-irresponsible/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid: Destiny Church leaders actions ‘completely irresponsible’">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2021
By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s 11 newly elected ministers have again failed to elect a new president. Like two weeks ago, none of the three candidates managed to secure the support of at least six ministers. At today’s meeting called by the French High Commissioner Laurent Prévost, the anti-independence Future with Confidence coalition’s Thierry Santa ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia ministers again deadlocked over president election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/02/kanaky-new-caledonia-ministers-again-deadlocked-over-president-election/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia ministers again deadlocked over president election">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2021
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she gets that everyone is angry over the latest New Zealand community covid-19 cases after it emerged there was contact between two families, but the important thing is to fix the situation. Contact between the families was not disclosed to contact tracers prior to the earlier family ... <a title="NZ covid: Ardern on latest 3 cases: ‘Everyone is angry… we have to fix it’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/01/nz-covid-ardern-on-latest-3-cases-everyone-is-angry-we-have-to-fix-it/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid: Ardern on latest 3 cases: ‘Everyone is angry… we have to fix it’">Read more</a>
