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November 6, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Donald Earl Collins She made it clear in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, again at her televised debate with Donald Trump a few weeks later, and in all her interviews since. Vice-President Kamala Harris, if or when elected the 47th United States president, will continue the centre-right policies ... <a title="Harris will not be a president for marginalised people – in the US or abroad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/06/harris-will-not-be-a-president-for-marginalised-people-in-the-us-or-abroad/" aria-label="Read more about Harris will not be a president for marginalised people – in the US or abroad">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2024
By Catrin Gardiner, Queensland University of Technology In the middle of the Pacific, Fiji journalists are transforming their practice, as newsrooms around Suva are requiring journalists to become multimedia creators, shaping stories for the digital age. A wave of multimedia journalists is surfacing in Fijian journalism culture, fostered during university education, and transitioning seamlessly into ... <a title="Fijian journalists embrace multimedia landscape for the digital age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/05/fijian-journalists-embrace-multimedia-landscape-for-the-digital-age/" aria-label="Read more about Fijian journalists embrace multimedia landscape for the digital age">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2024
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura Just one day after President Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration, a minister announced plans to resume the transmigration programme in eastern Indonesia, particularly in Papua, saying it was needed for enhancing unity and providing locals with welfare. Transmigration is the process of moving people from densely populated regions to less densely populated ... <a title="West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/05/west-papuan-outcry-over-prabowos-plan-to-revive-transmigration/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has returned from New Caledonia saying it is not a simple “black and white situation”. Brown returned from a three-day Pacific fact-finding mission in the French Pacific territory alongside the Prime Ministers of Solomon Islands, Tonga and Fiji. New Caledonia has been going ... <a title="Cook Islands PM calls for easing of tensions in New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/02/cook-islands-pm-calls-for-easing-of-tensions-in-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands PM calls for easing of tensions in New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2024
“In his message for the day, the secretary-general underscores that a free press is fundamental to human rights, to democracy and to the rule of law,” Dujarric said. ‘Alarming rate of fatalities’“Recent years have seen an alarming rate of fatalities in conflict zones, particularly in Gaza, which has seen the highest number of killings of ... <a title="Another Palestinian journalist killed in Gaza as Israel ‘suffocates the truth’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/02/another-palestinian-journalist-killed-in-gaza-as-israel-suffocates-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about Another Palestinian journalist killed in Gaza as Israel ‘suffocates the truth’">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says that as far as Fiji is concerned, Fijians of Indian descent are Fijian. While Fiji is part of the Pacific, Indo-Fijians are not classified as Pacific peoples in New Zealand; instead, they are listed under Indian and Asian on the Stats NZ ... <a title="Indo-Fijian ‘listen to us’ plea to NZ over Pacific ethnicity classification" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/01/indo-fijian-listen-to-us-plea-to-nz-over-pacific-ethnicity-classification/" aria-label="Read more about Indo-Fijian ‘listen to us’ plea to NZ over Pacific ethnicity classification">Read more</a>
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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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October 31, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As a three-day fact-finding mission from a group of Pacific leaders drew to a close in New Caledonia, and with the outcomes report not expected before next year, the visit to the riot-hit French Pacific territory seems to have triggered a new sense of awareness ... <a title="Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/31/forum-troikas-visit-highlights-value-of-regionalism-for-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor A three-day fact-finding mission, headed by three Pacific leaders, has wrapped up in Nouméa, and New Caledonia’s President Louis Mapou says the French territory is at a “turning point”. The semi-autonomous Pacific territory has been riddled with violent unrest since May. While tensions have reportedly eased for now, ... <a title="Pacific leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at ‘turning point’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/30/pacific-leaders-mission-to-noumea-mapou-says-new-caledonia-at-turning-point/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at ‘turning point’">Read more</a>
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October 29, 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’ over West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/29/wenda-praises-pngs-marape-over-brave-ambush-over-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda praises PNG’s Marape over ‘brave ambush’ over West Papua">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Mariam Shahin has been making films about Gaza for more than 30 years. She has also made many documentaries and short films for Al Jazeera English since it launched in 2006. When she moved to Gaza in 2005, she felt a powerful sense of optimism following the Israeli withdrawal. Mariam Shahin . ... <a title="Echoes of a Lost Gaza – Al Jazeera documentary on a brutal war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/29/echoes-of-a-lost-gaza-al-jazeera-documentary-on-a-brutal-war/" aria-label="Read more about Echoes of a Lost Gaza – Al Jazeera documentary on a brutal war">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders’ troika, along with the Fiji’s prime minister, arrived in Kanaky New Caledonia at the weekend for a fact-finding mission on the French Pacific territory’s situation. The troika plus format involves the PIF’s previous, current and future chairs. They are mission ... <a title="Pacific leaders’ troika begins New Caledonia fact-finding mission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/28/pacific-leaders-troika-begins-new-caledonia-fact-finding-mission/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders’ troika begins New Caledonia fact-finding mission">Read more</a>
