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February 8, 2026
Asia Pacific Report Speakers contrasted and condemned settler colonialism strategies in Aotearoa New Zealand and Israel’s illegal occupation and genocide in Palestine at a feisty solidarity rally in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau today — a day after Waitangi Day, the national holiday marking the 1840 signing of Te Tititi o Waitangi between 46 chiefs and the ... <a title="Lessons in decolonisation – Minto draws parallels between NZ and Gaza injustices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/08/lessons-in-decolonisation-minto-draws-parallels-between-nz-and-gaza-injustices/" aria-label="Read more about Lessons in decolonisation – Minto draws parallels between NZ and Gaza injustices">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the Republic, writes Laurens Ikinia. COMMENTARY: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The island of Papua is a land of profound paradox. Beneath its ancient, cathedral-like forests and ... <a title="Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/papua-in-the-pacific-mirror-a-path-to-recognition-and-reconciliation/" aria-label="Read more about Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2025
By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist Ngāti Toa Rangatira have gathered near the peak of their sacred maunga, Whitireia, to celebrate its historic return to iwi ownership. Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira has purchased 53 ha of land at Whitireia — just north of Tītahi Bay — from Radio New Zealand (RNZ) for just ... <a title="Ngāti Toa Rangatira celebrates return of sacred maunga Whitireia from RNZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/17/ngati-toa-rangatira-celebrates-return-of-sacred-maunga-whitireia-from-rnz/" aria-label="Read more about Ngāti Toa Rangatira celebrates return of sacred maunga Whitireia from RNZ">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A prominent academic has criticised the New Zealand coalition government for compromising the country’s traditional commitment to upholding an international rules-based order due to a “desire not to offend” the Trump administration. Professor Robert Patman, an inaugural sesquicentennial distinguished chair and a specialist in international relations at the University of Otago, has ... <a title="Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/09/academic-slams-nz-government-over-compromised-foreign-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2025
By Layla Bailey-McDowell, RNZ Māori news journalist Legal experts and Māori advocates say the fight to protect Te Tiriti is only just beginning — as the controversial Treaty Principles Bill is officially killed in Parliament. The bill — which seeks to redefine the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi — sparked a nationwide hīkoi and ... <a title="‘Delusional’ Treaty Principles Bill scrapped but fight for Te Tiriti just beginning, say lawyers and advocates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/11/delusional-treaty-principles-bill-scrapped-but-fight-for-te-tiriti-just-beginning-say-lawyers-and-advocates/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Delusional’ Treaty Principles Bill scrapped but fight for Te Tiriti just beginning, say lawyers and advocates">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2024
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Activist/educator Tina Ngata (Ngati Porou) has warned proposed changes to Aotearoa New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi principles would undermine indigenous Māori sovereignty, rights, and protections, and risk corporate exploitation and environmental harm. Ngata is a member of Koekoeā, a tāngata whenua and tāngata tiriti rōpu which ... <a title="Te Tiriti: The history and implications of the Treaty Principles Bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/13/te-tiriti-the-history-and-implications-of-the-treaty-principles-bill/" aria-label="Read more about Te Tiriti: The history and implications of the Treaty Principles Bill">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2024
An overview for our international readers of Asia Pacific Report. BACKGROUNDER: By Sarah Shamim A fight for Māori indigenous rights drew more than 50,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington yesterday. A nine-day-long Hīkoi, or peaceful march — a Māori tradition — was undertaken in protest against a bill that seeks ... <a title="Why NZ is protesting over colonial-era treaty bill – a global perspective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/20/why-nz-is-protesting-over-colonial-era-treaty-bill-a-global-perspective/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ is protesting over colonial-era treaty bill – a global perspective">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2024
RNZ News International media coverage of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national Hīkoi to Parliament has largely focused on the historic size of the turnout in Wellington yesterday and the wider contention between Māori and the Crown. Some, including The New York Times, have also pointed out the recent swing right with the election of the coalition ... <a title="Bill would ‘render the treaty worthless’ – world reacts to national Hīkoi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/20/bill-would-render-the-treaty-worthless-world-reacts-to-national-hikoi/" aria-label="Read more about Bill would ‘render the treaty worthless’ – world reacts to national Hīkoi">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2024
RNZ News A former New Zealand prime minister, Dame Jenny Shipley, has warned the ACT Party is “inviting civil war” with its attempt to define the principles of the 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi in law. The party’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill passed its first reading in Parliament on Thursday, voted for by ruling coalition ... <a title="NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill ‘inviting civil war’, says former PM Shipley" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/16/nzs-treaty-principles-bill-inviting-civil-war-says-former-pm-shipley/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill ‘inviting civil war’, says former PM Shipley">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2024
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter, Craig McCulloch, RNZ deputy political editor, and Te Manu Korihi Te Pāti Māori’s extraordinary display of protest — interrupting the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill — has highlighted the tension in Aotearoa New Zealand between Māori tikanga, or customs, and the rules of Parliament. When called ... <a title="NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and rules of Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/15/nzs-treaty-principles-bill-haka-highlights-tensions-between-maori-tikanga-and-rules-of-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and rules of Parliament">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2024
RNZ News An estimated 10,000 people have marched through Rotorua today as part of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti protesting against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill. Due to the size of the group, Fenton Street was blocked temporarily as the Hīkoi went through, police said. It is anticipated that this afternoon the main Hīkoi will travel ... <a title="Hīkoi day five: 10,000 join as Treaty bill protest halts traffic in Rotorua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/15/hikoi-day-five-10000-join-as-treaty-bill-protest-halts-traffic-in-rotorua/" aria-label="Read more about Hīkoi day five: 10,000 join as Treaty bill protest halts traffic in Rotorua">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato With the protest hīkoi from the Far North moving through Rotorua on its way to Wellington, it might be said ACT leader David Seymour has been granted his wish of generating an “important national conversation about the place of the Treaty in ... <a title="NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/15/nzs-treaty-principles-bill-is-already-straining-social-cohesion-a-referendum-could-be-worse/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse">Read more</a>
