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July 27, 2025
INTERVIEW: By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist One of the first women to hold an open seat in Bougainville, Theonila Roka Matbob, is confident she can win again. Bougainville goes to the polls in the first week of September, and Roka Matbob aims to hold on to her Ioro seat in central Bougainville, where ... <a title="Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/27/bougainville-woman-cabinet-minister-battling-nine-men-to-hold-her-seat/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Monika Singh The lack of women representation in parliaments across the world remains a vexed and contentious issue. In Fiji, this problem has again surfaced for debate in response to Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica’s call for a quota system to increase women’s representation in Parliament. Kamikamica was speaking at the “Capacity Building ... <a title="Fiji quota proposal sparks debate on women’s representation in politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/16/fiji-quota-proposal-sparks-debate-on-womens-representation-in-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji quota proposal sparks debate on women’s representation in politics">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2024
Dr Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep-dive into the United States November 5, 2024 Elections and consider the 'what, where, how and why' questions as they detail the rise and fall and rise of Donald John Trump and Trumpism.
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March 6, 2024
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Fiji’s Women’s Minister Lynda Tabuya says the decision by the People’s Alliance executive council to remove her as deputy leader of the governing party is “unfair as it is based solely on allegations . . . generated by opponents from outside the party”. Tabuya, who has been at the ... <a title="Lynda Tabuya fights back – ‘it’s unfortunate that as a woman I continue to be targeted’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/06/lynda-tabuya-fights-back-its-unfortunate-that-as-a-woman-i-continue-to-be-targeted/" aria-label="Read more about Lynda Tabuya fights back – ‘it’s unfortunate that as a woman I continue to be targeted’">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2024
By Tiana Haxton, RNZ journalist Fiji’s Women and Children’s Minister Lynda Tabuya says Pacific island countries need to “strengthen our laws” on online harassment. Tabuya spoke to RNZ Pacific on the sidelines of the Pacific Women in Power forum taking place in Auckland this week. She said the issue that she was dealing with — ... <a title="Fiji Women’s Minister Lynda Tabuya calls for stronger online bullying laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/26/fiji-womens-minister-lynda-tabuya-calls-for-stronger-online-bullying-laws/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Women’s Minister Lynda Tabuya calls for stronger online bullying laws">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2024
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Women’s rights advocates in Papua New Guinea are calling for peace and for the men in Parliament to act against the violence in the country. The call comes following tribal fighting in Enga Province ended in a mass massacre at the weekend, ... <a title="‘National crisis’: PNG women demand MPs act against all forms of violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/23/national-crisis-png-women-demand-mps-act-against-all-forms-of-violence/" aria-label="Read more about ‘National crisis’: PNG women demand MPs act against all forms of violence">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s newly-elected President Moetai Brotherson has presented a 10-member government, which includes four women. Brotherson has confirmed his pre-election choice of Eliane Tevahitua as Vice-President as well as Culture, Lands and Environment Minister. Several of the ministers are new to politics, with 29-year-old Jordy Chan as Infrastructure and Transport Minister being the ... <a title="Four women feature in Tahiti’s new Tavini Huira’atira government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/four-women-feature-in-tahitis-new-tavini-huiraatira-government/" aria-label="Read more about Four women feature in Tahiti’s new Tavini Huira’atira government">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2022
RNZ Pacific A woman candidate appears to have won a seat for the first time in Vanuatu in more than a decade in unofficial results from last week’s snap election. Julie King, a member of the Union of Moderate Parties, is reported to have won one of the seats in the Efate constituency. She is ... <a title="Vanuatu may have first woman MP in decade, say poll reports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/21/vanuatu-may-have-first-woman-mp-in-decade-say-poll-reports/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu may have first woman MP in decade, say poll reports">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Former Papua New Guinea radio broadcaster and tourism personality Erigere Singin has been elected as the first woman national president of the ruling Pangu Pati at its 26th National Convention in Port Moresby, reports the PNG Post-Courier. Prime Minister and Pangu leader James Marape announced the election of Singin and other ... <a title="PNG’s ruling Pangu Pati elects first woman as national president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/pngs-ruling-pangu-pati-elects-first-woman-as-national-president/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s ruling Pangu Pati elects first woman as national president">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
By Barney Orere in Port Moresby The five reserved seats for women being put forward by Papua New Guinea’s special parliamentary committee on gender-based violence has been rejected by women and a petition is on its way to demand different proposal. The women will petition the parliamentary committee to voice their disapproval about the five ... <a title="PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new scheme" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/png-women-reject-5-seat-gender-plan-as-a-farce-propose-new-scheme/" aria-label="Read more about PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new scheme">Read more</a>
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