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August 24, 2025
By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor has vowed not to be silenced despite years of threats, harassment and even a bomb attack on his home. The 51-year-old founder and editor-in-chief of Jubi, West Papua’s leading media outlet, was in Fiji this week, where he spoke exclusively to The Fiji Times about ... <a title="Bombs fail to silence West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/bombs-fail-to-silence-west-papuan-journalist-victor-mambor/" aria-label="Read more about Bombs fail to silence West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant ever could: it has become the most dangerous country on earth — for its own people. Not because of rockets or boycotts, but because its government has decided that the ... <a title="Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/is-israel-becoming-the-nightmare-prophecy-it-was-meant-to-escape/" aria-label="Read more about Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Three media spokespeople addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality of news reporting about the world’s biggest genocide crisis this century. Speakers at other locations around the country also condemned what they said was biased media coverage. The critics said ... <a title="Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/rallies-across-nz-honour-gaza-strip-journalists-condemn-own-news-media/" aria-label="Read more about Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2025
By Andrew Mathieson Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji — in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity — to hold the greater Pacific region to account and stand against Indonesia’s ongoing media blackout in addition to its human rights abuses. The leaders in their field which include two Papuans from Indonesia’s occupied provinces have ... <a title="West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/west-papuan-media-plea-for-melanesian-support-against-indonesian-media-blackout/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2025
RNZ News New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for “immediate and independent” foreign media access to Gaza. Earlier this month, an Israeli strike in the city killed six journalists — four Al Jazeera correspondents and cameramen, and two other media workers. The Israeli military admitted in a statement to ... <a title="NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/nz-joins-calls-for-urgent-independent-foreign-media-access-to-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2025
RNZ Pacific New Zealand’s police commissioner says he understands the potential impact the country’s criminal deportees have on smaller Pacific Island nations. Commissioner Richard Chambers’ comments on RNZ Pacific Waves come as the region’s police bosses gathered for the annual Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police conference in Waitangi. The meeting, which is closed to media, ... <a title="NZ police chief acknowledges impact of criminal deportees on Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/21/nz-police-chief-acknowledges-impact-of-criminal-deportees-on-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about NZ police chief acknowledges impact of criminal deportees on Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
During the past 22 months in Gaza, the pattern has become unbearable yet tragically predictable: A journalist reports about civilians; killed or starved, shares footage of a hospital corridor, shelters bombed out, schools and homes destroyed, and then they are silenced. Killed. At the Committee to Protect Journalists we documented that 2024 was the deadliest ... <a title="When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to truth in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/when-journalists-like-anas-al-sharif-are-killed-we-lose-access-to-truth-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to truth in Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The New Zealand Green Party co-leader suspended over criticising government MPs over a “spineless” stance over Gaza has called for action. Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick said in an interview with Al Jazeera that public pressure was mounting on governments to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza. The politician continues to push for ... <a title="Suspended Green MP tells Al Jazeera NZ must stand on ‘right side of history’ over Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/suspended-green-mp-tells-al-jazeera-nz-must-stand-on-right-side-of-history-over-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Suspended Green MP tells Al Jazeera NZ must stand on ‘right side of history’ over Palestine">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Why the recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia is an important development. Meanwhile, New Zealand still dithers. This article unpacks the hypocrisy in the debate. ANALYSIS: By Paul Heywood-Smith The recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia, leading, it is hoped, to full UN member state status, is an important development. What ... <a title="Rewarding knowingly illegal conduct – some might say, Israeli terrorism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/rewarding-knowingly-illegal-conduct-some-might-say-israeli-terrorism/" aria-label="Read more about Rewarding knowingly illegal conduct – some might say, Israeli terrorism">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By William Camacaro New York The Bolivian political landscape is currently characterized by a deep, self-inflicted crisis within the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) which has culminated in a devastating electoral defeat yesterday. As the country approached the crucial presidential elections of August 17, 2025, the party’s leaders—specifically former ... <a title="The Bolivian Left’s Self-Destructive Path" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/the-bolivian-lefts-self-destructive-path/" aria-label="Read more about The Bolivian Left’s Self-Destructive Path">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
By Elena Vucukula in Suva The main problem in for Fiji retirement is that there is no law to protect the Fiji National Provident Fund, claims a leading trade unionist. Fiji Trades Union Congress national executive board member and National Union of Hospitality Catering and Tourism Industries Employees general secretary Daniel Urai has told the ... <a title="Call for legal shield for Fiji National Provident Fund in review hearing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/call-for-legal-shield-for-fiji-national-provident-fund-in-review-hearing/" aria-label="Read more about Call for legal shield for Fiji National Provident Fund in review hearing">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2025
A Pacific analyst and commentator says it is unlikely that Vanuatu will agree to any exclusive rights in the new security and economic pact with Australia. Senior ministers of both countries, including deputy prime ministers Richard Marles and Johnny Koanapo, initialled the Nakamal Agreement at the summit of Mount Yasur volcano on Tanna Island, ahead ... <a title="New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/18/new-australia-vanuatu-deal-wont-replicate-falepili-style-pact-says-analyst/" aria-label="Read more about New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst">Read more</a>
