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January 6, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury THE DAILY BLOG’S 2022 INFAMOUS MEDIA GONGS Last month The Daily Blog offered its New Year infamous news media gongs — and blasts — for 2022. In this extract, editor and publisher Martyn Bradbury names the mainstream media “blind spots”. Graham Adams over at The Platform made the argument this year ... <a title="Martyn Bradbury’s 17 editorial ‘no go’ zones for the NZ media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/06/martyn-bradburys-17-editorial-no-go-zones-for-the-nz-media/" aria-label="Read more about Martyn Bradbury’s 17 editorial ‘no go’ zones for the NZ media">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Professor Steven Ratuva The highly anticipated 2022 election last month was a very close, emotionally charged and highly controversial affair. All that is behind us now and it is time to reflect on it critically and learn some important lessons as we welcome the dawn of 2023. Despite the Supervisor of Elections’ prediction ... <a title="Steven Ratuva: What an election in Fiji – some reflections, lessons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/05/steven-ratuva-what-an-election-in-fiji-some-reflections-lessons/" aria-label="Read more about Steven Ratuva: What an election in Fiji – some reflections, lessons">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2023
2022 PACIFIC REVIEW: By David Robie The Pacific year started with a ferocious eruption and global tsunami in Tonga, but by the year’s end several political upheavals had also shaken the region with a vengeance. A razor’s edge election in Fiji blew away a long entrenched authoritarian regime with a breath of fresh air for ... <a title="David Robie: 2022 Pacific political upheavals eclipse Tongan volcano" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/01/david-robie-2022-pacific-political-upheavals-eclipse-tongan-volcano/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie: 2022 Pacific political upheavals eclipse Tongan volcano">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2022
Pacific Media Watch The US tested 67 nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, tricking the people who lived on Bikini Atoll to leave their homeland “for the good of all mankind.” But the Bikini Islanders didn’t know the US would contaminate their island and make it uninhabitable. Now nearly 70 years later, many Marshall Islanders ... <a title="Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/29/why-a-royal-princess-from-the-pacific-is-living-in-arkansas/" aria-label="Read more about Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2022
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: By Benny Wenda As 2022 draws to a close, I would like to thank everyone who has supported the West Papuan struggle this year. To our worldwide solidarity groups, including those within Indonesia, to Alex Sobel and the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP), the International Lawyers for West Papua, to our friends ... <a title="Benny Wenda: A West Papuan Christmas message" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/25/benny-wenda-a-west-papuan-christmas-message/" aria-label="Read more about Benny Wenda: A West Papuan Christmas message">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2022
By Timoci Vula in Suva “Merry Christmas Fiji!” This was the message to Fiji from kingmakers Social Democratic Liberal Party (Sodelpa) management board member and MP Tanya Waqanika after their meeting in Suva ended this evening. Asked whether her Christmas wishes meant good news for the people of Fiji, she responded: “Free at last.” Waqanika ... <a title="‘Merry Christmas Fiji – free at last’ as Sodelpa confirms joining coalition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/24/merry-christmas-fiji-free-at-last-as-sodelpa-confirms-joining-coalition/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Merry Christmas Fiji – free at last’ as Sodelpa confirms joining coalition">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2022
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times It’s the big day today! We will get to know the make-up of our Parliament. The results saw FijiFirst leading the vote count — but failing to gain a majority (26 seats) — followed by the People’s Alliance (21), the National Federation Party (5) and the ... <a title="The Fiji Times: Kingmakers and the big post-election reveal!" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/19/the-fiji-times-kingmakers-and-the-big-post-election-reveal/" aria-label="Read more about The Fiji Times: Kingmakers and the big post-election reveal!">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2022
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist The Social Democratic Liberal Party (Sodelpa) has emerged as the kingmaker in Fiji’s contentious 2022 general election and its leader Viliame Gavoka is in no rush to punch his golden ticket. After a nightmare leadup to the election, with infighting resulting in a massive split in the party, many ... <a title="Last shall be first … Fiji’s kingmaker party considering all options" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/19/last-shall-be-first-fijis-kingmaker-party-considering-all-options/" aria-label="Read more about Last shall be first … Fiji’s kingmaker party considering all options">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2022
By Talebula Kate in Suva A possible coalition between the Social Democratic Liberal Party (Sodelpa) and the ruling FijiFirst Party — which has lost its 16-year majority in Fiji’s Parliament in this week’s general election — or the opposition People’s Alliance Party and National Federation Party partnership is still a work in progress. Sodelpa leader ... <a title="Fiji elections: Indigenous issues ‘paramount with us’, says Gavoka on coalition talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/18/fiji-elections-indigenous-issues-paramount-with-us-says-gavoka-on-coalition-talks/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji elections: Indigenous issues ‘paramount with us’, says Gavoka on coalition talks">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2022
By Talebula Kate in Suva Former opposition Sodelpa member Mick Beddoes has appealed to the party’s management board to end the 16-year rule of Voreqe Bainimarama’s FijiFirst government. In an open letter on his official Facebook page to Sodelpa vice-president Ro Teimumu Kepa, president Ratu Manoa Roragaca, leader Viliame Gavoka and the management board today, ... <a title="Fiji elections: End 16 years of nation’s ‘bullying, corrupt’ government, pleads Beddoes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/18/fiji-elections-end-16-years-of-nations-bullying-corrupt-government-pleads-beddoes/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji elections: End 16 years of nation’s ‘bullying, corrupt’ government, pleads Beddoes">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2022
By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva People’s Alliance leader Sitiveni Rabuka says he has evidence his party is ahead in the 2022 polls, contrary to the official results posted by the Fijian Elections Office. At a media conference yesterday, he called on the people of Fiji to remain calm and said he would write to President ... <a title="Fiji elections: ‘We have evidence’ People’s Alliance ahead, says Rabuka" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/16/fiji-elections-we-have-evidence-peoples-alliance-ahead-says-rabuka/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji elections: ‘We have evidence’ People’s Alliance ahead, says Rabuka">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya “We are part of them and they are part of us,” declared politician Augustine Rapa, founder and president of the PNG Liberal Democratic Party, on the 61st anniversary of the struggle for West Papuan independence earlier this month. Rapa’s statement of West Papua at Gerehu, Port Moresby, on December 1 was ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: While West Papuans face an ‘existential threat’ under Indonesia, PNG plans defence pact with Jakarta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/15/yamin-kogoya-while-west-papuans-face-an-existential-threat-under-indonesia-png-plans-defence-pact-with-jakarta/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: While West Papuans face an ‘existential threat’ under Indonesia, PNG plans defence pact with Jakarta">Read more</a>
