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March 18, 2022
By Marena Mane of Māori Television Indigenous students from West Papua studying at universities across Aotearoa are defying an order from the Indonesian government to return home. In January, more than 40 students were told that Indonesia would no longer be funding autonomous West Papuan scholarships so they had to pack up and leave. Laurens ... <a title="West Papuan students fight to keep scholarships to study in Aotearoa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/18/west-papuan-students-fight-to-keep-scholarships-to-study-in-aotearoa/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan students fight to keep scholarships to study in Aotearoa">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2022
By Kathleen Farmilo and Sweeney Preston in Sydney Journalism students from Australia’s Macleay College programme with 50 participants are saying their degrees have been cancelled just two weeks into the course. Macleay is a private tertiary institution with campuses in Sydney and Melbourne. Macleay students say that on Friday afternoon they were sent an email ... <a title="Australian journalism school students ‘hung out to dry’ over sudden closure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/14/australian-journalism-school-students-hung-out-to-dry-over-sudden-closure/" aria-label="Read more about Australian journalism school students ‘hung out to dry’ over sudden closure">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Mary Argue of the Wairarapa Times-Age In 2016, I was on a yacht in the Bahamas. Every morning I woke surrounded by postcard-perfect azure water — so crystal clear you could count the sharks sweeping the seafloor. From my porthole in the laundry, my 1x2m kingdom, I would watch the rain clouds gather ... <a title="Mary Argue: Why have scholarships dried up for Papuan ‘band of brothers’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/10/mary-argue-why-have-scholarships-dried-up-for-papuan-band-of-brothers/" aria-label="Read more about Mary Argue: Why have scholarships dried up for Papuan ‘band of brothers’?">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne; Alexandra Wake, RMIT University, and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University News Corp Australia and Google have announced the creation of the Digital News Academy in partnership with the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne. It will provide digital skills training for News Corp journalists and other ... <a title="Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business School" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/journalism-academics-question-news-corps-deal-with-google-and-melbourne-business-school/" aria-label="Read more about Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business School">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2022
By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby Air travellers were left stranded and fuming country-wide as airlines Air Niugini and PNG Air hit a rough patch in operations due to wet weather and a large number of their key staff falling sick and unable to be at work. Flight cancellations were the order of the day ... <a title="Chaos as PNG airlines cancel flights with majority of staff off sick" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/chaos-as-png-airlines-cancel-flights-with-majority-of-staff-off-sick/" aria-label="Read more about Chaos as PNG airlines cancel flights with majority of staff off sick">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland Four fresh indigenous Papuan students have graduated with degrees from Aotearoa New Zealand universities in the past few weeks to fulfil the dreams of Papuan provincial government leaders Lukas Enembe and Dominggus Mandacan. The two governors of both Indonesian-Melanesian provinces, Enembe (Papua) province and Mandacan (West Papua) made a bold ... <a title="Indigenous Papuan graduates praise Aotearoa – and their governors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/indigenous-papuan-graduates-praise-aotearoa-and-their-governors/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous Papuan graduates praise Aotearoa – and their governors">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2021
By Laurens Ikinia Students from six Melanesian countries and territories in the Pacific — Fiji, Kanaky/New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon islands, Vanuatu and West Papua — have gathered at Auckland University of Technology to form a club to “empower wantoks”. The AUT Melanesian Students Club was launched last Sunday with representative students from each ... <a title="Wantok students from 6 nations form solidarity Melanesian club at AUT" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/26/wantok-students-from-6-nations-form-solidarity-melanesian-club-at-aut/" aria-label="Read more about Wantok students from 6 nations form solidarity Melanesian club at AUT">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
By Justin Wong in Auckland Auckland University of Technology has denied it is sidelining the Pacific Media Centre in the School of Communication Studies, but it is yet to announce the new leadership following disputes over office space and a succession plan. The multi-disciplinary research and professional development unit was founded in 2007 by Professor ... <a title="Future of AUT’s Pacific Media Centre still up in the air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/future-of-auts-pacific-media-centre-still-up-in-the-air/" aria-label="Read more about Future of AUT’s Pacific Media Centre still up in the air">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
RNZ Pacific Deported Canadian academic Professor Pal Ahluwalia is still vice-chancellor and president of the University of the South Pacific, says chancellor Lionel Aingimea. Professor Ahluwalia and his wife, nursing lecturer Sandra Price, were forced to leave Fiji in early February after the Fiji government claimed the couple had breached provisions in their work permits. ... <a title="Ahluwalia still USP’s vice-chancellor, says Aingimea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/ahluwalia-still-usps-vice-chancellor-says-aingimea/" aria-label="Read more about Ahluwalia still USP’s vice-chancellor, says Aingimea">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Graeme Acton As the military junta in Myanmar continues its brutal attempt to subdue nationwide protests following February’s coup, New Zealand-based Myanmar students are keeping in contact with family and colleagues back home. It is a scary period, with internet services cut for many hours every day, and people disappearing from their ... <a title="Myanmar: The student voice as frontliners tackle the junta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/01/myanmar-the-student-voice-as-frontliners-tackle-the-junta/" aria-label="Read more about Myanmar: The student voice as frontliners tackle the junta">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
By Luke Rawalai in Suva Opposition parliamentarian Ro Filipe Tuisawau claims University of the South Pacific pro-chancellor Winston Thompson and audit and risk committee deputy chair Mahmood Khan had blocked investigations into irregularities highlighted by vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Speaking in Parliament during debate on the the 2017 USP annual report, Ro Filipe said deported ... <a title="Tuisawau claims Fiji pro-chancellor blocked USP audit probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/tuisawau-claims-fiji-pro-chancellor-blocked-usp-audit-probe/" aria-label="Read more about Tuisawau claims Fiji pro-chancellor blocked USP audit probe">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2021
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland Indigenous Papuan students who are currently studying in New Zealand and Australia have formed an educational association, choosing Waitangi Day to mark the occasion of their inaugural virtual conference. Called the Papuan Students Association Oceania (PSAO), the organisation plans to represent all students from the Land of Papua who are ... <a title="Papuans choose NZ’s Waitangi Day to launch new Oceania student group" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/13/papuans-choose-nzs-waitangi-day-to-launch-new-oceania-student-group/" aria-label="Read more about Papuans choose NZ’s Waitangi Day to launch new Oceania student group">Read more</a>
