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January 11, 2022
RNZ Pacific A New Caledonian member of the French National Assembly says a consensus needs to be found on Kanaky New Caledonia’s future statute after last month’s referendum saw a third rejection of independence from France. The vote formally concluded the decolonisation process provided under the 1998 Noumea Accord. Philippe Gomes, a former New Caledonian ... <a title="Gomes calls for ‘consensus’ in charting Kanaky New Caledonia’s future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/11/gomes-calls-for-consensus-in-charting-kanaky-new-caledonias-future/" aria-label="Read more about Gomes calls for ‘consensus’ in charting Kanaky New Caledonia’s future">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Thomas Nash, Massey University The year is 2040 and Aotearoa New Zealand has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the commitment to keep global heating below 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures. The economy, society, local government, transport, housing and urban design, energy, land use, food production and water systems have all changed significantly. ... <a title="Report from the future: Aotearoa New Zealand is looking good in 2040 – here’s how we did it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/10/report-from-the-future-aotearoa-new-zealand-is-looking-good-in-2040-heres-how-we-did-it/" aria-label="Read more about Report from the future: Aotearoa New Zealand is looking good in 2040 – here’s how we did it">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2022
ANALYSIS: By David Robie in Auckland The Pacific year has closed with growing tensions over sovereignty and self-determination issues and growing stress over the ravages of covid-19 pandemic in a region that was largely virus-free in 2020. Just two days before the year 2021 wrapped up, Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama took the extraordinary statement of ... <a title="‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/02/secret-plots-sovereignty-and-covid-challenges-face-pacific-for-new-year/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2021
By Jan Kohout in Noumea There have been mixed opinions from New Caledonia’s communities after the third and final referendum returned a 96 percent vote against independence. While anti-independence parties welcomed the victory, the pro-independence Kanak side refuse to recognise the result. The turnout of potential voters was especially low among the Kanak community because ... <a title="‘France still doesn’t understand us Kanaks after 30 years of dialogue’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/21/france-still-doesnt-understand-us-kanaks-after-30-years-of-dialogue/" aria-label="Read more about ‘France still doesn’t understand us Kanaks after 30 years of dialogue’">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist Armed conflict in West Papua continues to claim lives, displace tens of thousands of people and cause resentment at Indonesian rule. But despite ongoing calls for help, neighbouring countries in the Pacific Islands region remain largely silent and ineffectual in their response. This year, Indonesia’s military has ... <a title="60,000 flee as West Papua conflict deepens, poses questions for region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/19/60000-flee-as-west-papua-conflict-deepens-poses-questions-for-region/" aria-label="Read more about 60,000 flee as West Papua conflict deepens, poses questions for region">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2021
RNZ Pacific The United Nations says Indonesia must immediately drop charges and look into threats, intimidation and reprisals against human rights defender Veronica Koman and her family. Veronica Koman, a human and minority rights lawyer, is in self-imposed exile in Australia. However, she still faces several charges in Indonesia for alleged incitement, spreading fake news, ... <a title="UN warns Indonesia to stop reprisals against human rights defender" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/19/un-warns-indonesia-to-stop-reprisals-against-human-rights-defender/" aria-label="Read more about UN warns Indonesia to stop reprisals against human rights defender">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The French government’s decision to press ahead with the third and final referendum vote for self-determination in Kanaky New Caledonia was “unjust and unfair” for the Indigenous Kanak people, says a coalition of nine pan-Pacific civil society groups. The groups have also accused the French state of “colonial manoeuvring in the ... <a title="Pacific civil society groups slam New Caledonia ballot as ‘unjust … unfair’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/pacific-civil-society-groups-slam-new-caledonia-ballot-as-unjust-unfair/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific civil society groups slam New Caledonia ballot as ‘unjust … unfair’">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
RNZ Pacific A leftwing candidate in the French presidential race, Jean-Luc Melenchon, says the outcome of New Caledonia’s independence referendum is a catastrophe. He held a news conference after several leading French politicians welcomed Sunday’s overwhelming rejection of independence, with just 3.5 percent voting for it. Melenchon, leader of the France Unbowed (La France Insoumise) ... <a title="France’s New Caledonia policy labelled a ‘catastrophe’ by left leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/frances-new-caledonia-policy-labelled-a-catastrophe-by-left-leader/" aria-label="Read more about France’s New Caledonia policy labelled a ‘catastrophe’ by left leader">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s pro-independence umbrella organisation says it does not recognise the legitimacy and validity of the third and final referendum on independence from France. The statement by the organisation grouping seven parties and unions — the Strategic Independence Committee of Non-Particioation (CSIMP) — is the first since 96.5 percent of voters rejected independence ... <a title="New Caledonian referendum result rejected – not wish of ‘silent majority’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/new-caledonian-referendum-result-rejected-not-wish-of-silent-majority/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonian referendum result rejected – not wish of ‘silent majority’">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
ANALYSIS: By David Robie “Loyalist” New Caledonians handed France the decisive victory in the third and final referendum on independence it wanted in Sunday’s vote. But it was a hollow victory, with pro-independence Kanaks delivering Paris a massive rebuke for its three-decade decolonisation strategy. The referendum is likely to be seen as a failure, a ... <a title="New Caledonia votes to stay with France, but it’s a hollow victory that will only ratchet up tensions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/new-caledonia-votes-to-stay-with-france-but-its-a-hollow-victory-that-will-only-ratchet-up-tensions/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia votes to stay with France, but it’s a hollow victory that will only ratchet up tensions">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2021
RNZ Pacific Voting is under way in New Caledonia today in the last of three referendums on independence from France. The pro-independence parties said they will not take part in today’s vote and will not recognise its result because Paris repeatedly refused to postpone the plebiscite to next year. They argued that the pandemic with ... <a title="New Caledonia votes in third ballot on independence from France" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/12/new-caledonia-votes-in-third-ballot-on-independence-from-france/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia votes in third ballot on independence from France">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By David Robie After three decades of frustratingly slow progress but with a measure of quiet optimism over the decolonisation process unfolding under the Noumea Accord, Kanaky New Caledonia is again poised on the edge of a precipice. Two out of three pledged referendums from 2018 produced higher than expected – and growing — ... <a title="Betrayal of Kanaky decolonisation by Paris risks return to dark days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/betrayal-of-kanaky-decolonisation-by-paris-risks-return-to-dark-days/" aria-label="Read more about Betrayal of Kanaky decolonisation by Paris risks return to dark days">Read more</a>
