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January 22, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell On 14 December 2025, a father and son, reportedly linked to the ISIS clerical fascist organisation, committed a murderous attack on innocent participants at a Jewish celebration on Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach. Fifteen were killed and around 40 seriously injured. There is no way this horrific event can be minimised. It ... <a title="Ian Powell: Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/ian-powell-bondi-beachs-murderous-terrorism-aftermath-an-aotearoa-perspective/" aria-label="Read more about Ian Powell: Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell On 14 December 2025, a father and son, reportedly linked to the ISIS clerical fascist organisation, committed a murderous attack on innocent participants at a Jewish celebration on Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach. Fifteen were killed and around 40 seriously injured. There is no way this horrific event can be minimised. It ... <a title="Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/15/bondi-beachs-murderous-terrorism-aftermath-an-aotearoa-perspective/" aria-label="Read more about Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure from the Murdoch News Corp’s relentless media campaign and advocacy by political critics and victim’s families to announce a royal commission of inquiry into “antisemitism and social cohesion”. The commission advocates were seeking his political downfall over last month’s Bondi ... <a title="Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/albanese-bows-to-relentless-pressure-for-bondi-royal-commission-but-scepticism-remains/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Walden Bello US President Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have a scoop, you file it immediately, not only to get the story out first but to warn the world if it’s about something bad that might be coming. Shortly after ... <a title="Out-scooped by Trump – the US attack in Nigeria did indeed point to the operation to kidnap Venezuela’s Maduro" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/06/out-scooped-by-trump-the-us-attack-in-nigeria-did-indeed-point-to-the-operation-to-kidnap-venezuelas-maduro/" aria-label="Read more about Out-scooped by Trump – the US attack in Nigeria did indeed point to the operation to kidnap Venezuela’s Maduro">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Sameer Barghouthi The road from Beijing to Taiwan no longer seems impossible. Nothing appears to prevent Moscow — should it decide — from abducting the Ukrainian president from the heart of Kyiv. There is no longer any real immunity protecting political leadership anywhere, including Iranian leaders. The reason is not international chaos. The ... <a title="With the Gaza genocide, the world changed – sovereignty died and thuggery became a system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/05/with-the-gaza-genocide-the-world-changed-sovereignty-died-and-thuggery-became-a-system/" aria-label="Read more about With the Gaza genocide, the world changed – sovereignty died and thuggery became a system">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
A transition in global emphasis from “nuclear to climate crisis survivors”, plus new geopolitical exposés. REVIEW: By Amit Sarwal of The Australia Today Forty years after the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, award-winning journalist and author David Robie has revisited the ship’s fateful last mission — a journey that became ... <a title="David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/david-robies-eyes-of-fire-rekindles-the-legacy-of-the-rainbow-warrior-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years on">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2025
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent United States immigration and deportation enforcement continues to ramp up, impacting on Marshallese and Micronesians in new and unprecedented ways. The Trump administration’s directive to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest and deport massive numbers of potentially illegal aliens, including those with convictions from decades ... <a title="ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/19/ice-deportation-action-lands-marshallese-micronesians-in-guantanamo-terror-base/" aria-label="Read more about ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in an attempt to stop the environmental organisation’s protest against nuclear testing at Moruroa Atoll in Mā’ohi Nui. People gathered on board Rainbow Warrior III to remember photographer Fernando Pereira, ... <a title="Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/rainbow-warrior-bombing-by-french-secret-agents-remembered-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2025
From the prologue of the 40th anniversary edition of David Robie’s seminal book on the Rainbow Warrior’s last voyage, former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark (1999-2008) writes about what the bombing on 10 July 1985 means today. The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour on 10 July 1985 and the death of ... <a title="‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/11/storm-clouds-are-gathering-40-years-on-from-the-bombing-of-the-rainbow-warrior/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea has five months remaining to fix its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems or face the severe repercussions of being placed on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) “grey list”. The FATF has imposed an October 2025 deadline, and the government is scrambling ... <a title="PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/png-faces-deadline-for-fixing-issues-with-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing/" aria-label="Read more about PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The author of the book Eyes of Fire, one of the countless publications on the Rainbow Warrior bombing almost 40 years ago but the only one by somebody actually on board the bombed ship, says he was under no illusions that France was behind the attack. Journalist David Robie was speaking last ... <a title="‘Under no illusions’ about France, says author of new Rainbow Warrior book" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/07/under-no-illusions-about-france-says-author-of-new-rainbow-warrior-book/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Under no illusions’ about France, says author of new Rainbow Warrior book">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2025
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as ... <a title="Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/mediawatch-jailed-australian-foreign-correspondents-life-spread-across-the-big-screen/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen">Read more</a>
