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November 15, 2024
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter, Craig McCulloch, RNZ deputy political editor, and Te Manu Korihi Te Pāti Māori’s extraordinary display of protest — interrupting the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill — has highlighted the tension in Aotearoa New Zealand between Māori tikanga, or customs, and the rules of Parliament. When called ... <a title="NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and rules of Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/15/nzs-treaty-principles-bill-haka-highlights-tensions-between-maori-tikanga-and-rules-of-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and rules of Parliament">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2024
RNZ News An estimated 10,000 people have marched through Rotorua today as part of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti protesting against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill. Due to the size of the group, Fenton Street was blocked temporarily as the Hīkoi went through, police said. It is anticipated that this afternoon the main Hīkoi will travel ... <a title="Hīkoi day five: 10,000 join as Treaty bill protest halts traffic in Rotorua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/15/hikoi-day-five-10000-join-as-treaty-bill-protest-halts-traffic-in-rotorua/" aria-label="Read more about Hīkoi day five: 10,000 join as Treaty bill protest halts traffic in Rotorua">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato With the protest hīkoi from the Far North moving through Rotorua on its way to Wellington, it might be said ACT leader David Seymour has been granted his wish of generating an “important national conversation about the place of the Treaty in ... <a title="NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/15/nzs-treaty-principles-bill-is-already-straining-social-cohesion-a-referendum-could-be-worse/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2024
RNZ News Thousands of people are continuing their North Island hīkoi as the legislation they are protesting against, the Treaty Principles Bill, gets its first reading in Parliament today. The hīkoi enters day four and headed off from Huntly, destined for Rotorua today, after it advanced through Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau yesterday. Traffic was at a ... <a title="Hīkoi day four: Setting off from Huntly on way to Wellington – bill reading" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/14/hikoi-day-four-setting-off-from-huntly-on-way-to-wellington-bill-reading/" aria-label="Read more about Hīkoi day four: Setting off from Huntly on way to Wellington – bill reading">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2024
Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader has called on supporters globally to show their support by raising the Morning Star flag — banned by Indonesia — on December 1. “Whether in your house, your workplace, the beach, the mountains or anywhere else, please raise our flag and send us a picture,” said United ... <a title="West Papuan leader makes ‘raise our banned flag’ plea over new threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/14/west-papuan-leader-makes-raise-our-banned-flag-plea-over-new-threat/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan leader makes ‘raise our banned flag’ plea over new threat">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2024
RNZ News Thousands of supporters of Aotearoa New Zealand’s hīkoi mō te Tiriti — a march traversing the length of Aotearoa in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill and government policies impacting on Māori — have crossed the Auckland Harbour Bridge. RNZ reporters with the march said it was swaying and rocking as the protesters ... <a title="Hīkoi day three: Thousands of protesters walk across Auckland Harbour Bridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/13/hikoi-day-three-thousands-of-protesters-walk-across-auckland-harbour-bridge/" aria-label="Read more about Hīkoi day three: Thousands of protesters walk across Auckland Harbour Bridge">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2024
RNZ News From the misty peaks of Cape Reinga to the rain-soaked streets of Kawakawa, Aotearoa New Zealand’s national hīkoi mō Te Tiriti rolled through the north and arrived in Whangārei. Since setting off this morning numbers have swelled from a couple of hundred to well over 1000 people, demonstrating their opposition to the coalition ... <a title="Hīkoi mō te Tiriti day one: ‘Lets make this hīkoi build a nation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/11/hikoi-mo-te-tiriti-day-one-lets-make-this-hikoi-build-a-nation/" aria-label="Read more about Hīkoi mō te Tiriti day one: ‘Lets make this hīkoi build a nation’">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2024
RNZ News A national hīkoi across Aotearoa New Zealand began today in the small Far North town of Te Kāo. Supporters gathered at Pōtahi Marae, before setting out tomorrow on the first leg of the long journey south. Travellers from Bluff at the far end of the South Island are also travelling toward Wellington to ... <a title="NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill protest hīkoi begins in Far North" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/10/nzs-treaty-principles-bill-protest-hikoi-begins-in-far-north/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill protest hīkoi begins in Far North">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2024
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: As we continue to look at Donald Trump’s return to the White House, we turn now to look at what it means for the world, from Israel’s war on Gaza to the Russian invasion ... <a title="Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true feminism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/08/kamala-harriss-support-for-israels-genocide-in-gaza-betrayal-of-true-feminism/" aria-label="Read more about Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true feminism’">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Despite being appalled at my government, I winced as a New Zealander to hear my country described as part of the “Axis of Genocide”. With increasing frequency I hear commentators on West Asia/Middle East news sites hold the collective West responsible for the genocide. It’s a big come-down from the Global ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Axis of Genocide vs Axis of Resistance. Whose side are you on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/08/eugene-doyle-axis-of-genocide-vs-axis-of-resistance-whose-side-are-you-on/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Axis of Genocide vs Axis of Resistance. Whose side are you on?">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2024
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Over 30 years the French government tested 193 nuclear weapons in Māohi Nui and today Indigenous peoples still suffer the impacts through intergenerational cancers. In 1975, France stopped atmospheric tests and moved to underground testing. Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross was eight years old when the French nuclear tests ... <a title="Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and limited compensation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/07/maohi-nui-campaigner-tackles-french-nuclear-test-legacy-cancer-and-limited-compensation/" aria-label="Read more about Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and limited compensation">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2024
Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader has praised Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape for his “brave ambush” in questioning new Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto over West Papua. Prabowo offered an “amnesty” for West Papuan pro-independence activists during Marape’s revent meeting with Prabowo on the fringes of the inauguration, the PNG leader ... <a title="Wenda praises PNG’s Marape over ‘brave ambush’ on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/06/wenda-praises-pngs-marape-over-brave-ambush-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda praises PNG’s Marape over ‘brave ambush’ on West Papua">Read more</a>
