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November 24, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has defended his decision to ban the Samoa Observer in response to a joint letter from the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF). In a statement issued by the Press Secretary, Nanai Lave Tuiletufuga yesterday, the office of the Prime Minister acknowledged ... <a title="PM hits back at PINA and PFF over Samoa Observer ‘ethics’ ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/pm-hits-back-at-pina-and-pff-over-samoa-observer-ethics-ban/" aria-label="Read more about PM hits back at PINA and PFF over Samoa Observer ‘ethics’ ban">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Peel, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne Australia is rewriting its national environment laws, and Environment Minister Murray Watt has vowed the legislation will pass the parliament this week, despite not yet reaching agreement with either the Coalition or the Greens. But the current draft ... <a title="Long-awaited environment laws might get Australia sued. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/long-awaited-environment-laws-might-get-australia-sued-heres-why-270453/" aria-label="Read more about Long-awaited environment laws might get Australia sued. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maddy McAllister, Senior Lecturer – Maritime Archaeology, James Cook University Wikimedia/Etching by Robert Batty (1789–1848). In 1791, the British naval vessel HMS Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef while pursuing the mutineers from the HMS Bounty. The mutineers, led by Christian Fletcher, staged an uprising against ... <a title="HMS Pandora is Australia’s most scientifically excavated shipwreck – yet it still holds secrets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/hms-pandora-is-australias-most-scientifically-excavated-shipwreck-yet-it-still-holds-secrets-267629/" aria-label="Read more about HMS Pandora is Australia’s most scientifically excavated shipwreck – yet it still holds secrets">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Wyndham Street in central Auckland. Google Maps A major street in central Auckland was closed for almost three hours today after a window fell from a multi-storey building. Two fire trucks were called to Wyndham Street shortly after 1.30pm when a window fell from an upper floor. Fire and Emergency and ... <a title="Glass window falls from central Auckland building" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/glass-window-falls-from-central-auckland-building/" aria-label="Read more about Glass window falls from central Auckland building">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A sperm whale offshore can accumulate just as many ‘forever chemicals’ as an inshore Maui dolphin, new data suggests. AFP / FRANCO BANFI Surprisingly spread-out levels of ‘forever chemicals’ have been found in many kinds of whales in New Zealand waters. Man-made PFAS chemicals are common in consumer products and impact ... <a title="‘Forever chemicals’ in New Zealand whales and dolphins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/forever-chemicals-in-new-zealand-whales-and-dolphins/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Forever chemicals’ in New Zealand whales and dolphins">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police are looking for a man and woman. RNZ / REECE BAKER Southland police are still looking for two people involved in what they describe as a particularly vicious and unprovoked assault. On November 15th a man was lured from his Edendale home by a woman seeking help with a flat ... <a title="Police still looking for two people involved in unprovoked Southland assault" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/police-still-looking-for-two-people-involved-in-unprovoked-southland-assault/" aria-label="Read more about Police still looking for two people involved in unprovoked Southland assault">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER Emergency services are responding to a two vehicle crash that’s closed a section of State Highway 65 in Tasman. The crash near Shenandoah happened about 2.30pm. Five people have been injured, including two seriously. Another person has moderate injuries and two others have minor injuries. Motorists are ... <a title="Five injured in Tasman crash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/five-injured-in-tasman-crash/" aria-label="Read more about Five injured in Tasman crash">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand ST JOHN NZ A worker has been critically injured in a machinery accident at a kiwifruit packhouse near Ōpōtiki. Fire, police, ambulance and a rescue helicopter were at the scene at the Riverlock Packhouse in Ōtara, just outside the town. St John said the patient had been airlifted to Waikato Hospital. ... <a title="Worker critically injured at kiwifruit packhouse near Ōpōtiki" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/worker-critically-injured-at-kiwifruit-packhouse-near-opotiki/" aria-label="Read more about Worker critically injured at kiwifruit packhouse near Ōpōtiki">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking to media in Auckland. It comes after he was forced to give reassurance the coalition government was “stable” following a public stoush between ACT Party leader David Seymour and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. Last week, Peters vowed to repeal the Regulatory Standards Bill ... <a title="Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks to media after NZ First, ACT stoush" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/watch-prime-minister-christopher-luxon-speaks-to-media-after-nz-first-act-stoush/" aria-label="Read more about Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks to media after NZ First, ACT stoush">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Te Anihana Pomana. Supplied / Police A body has been found in the search for a missing woman in Auckland this weekend. Te Anihana Pomana, also known as Ani Anderson, went missing on 21 August after leaving Sky City hotel in the early hours of the morning. She left all her ... <a title="Body of Te Anihana Pomana found after she went missing leaving Sky City hotel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/body-of-te-anihana-pomana-found-after-she-went-missing-leaving-sky-city-hotel/" aria-label="Read more about Body of Te Anihana Pomana found after she went missing leaving Sky City hotel">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on November 24, 2025.
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November 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand [embedded content] A Waikato pig farm has been fined $437,000 for persistent discharges of raw piggery effluent into the environment, including sewage tanks overflowing into waterways. Rawhiti Environmental Park was convicted on eight charges in the Hamilton District Court on Thursday under the Resource Management Act. The 810-hectare piggery near Te ... <a title="Waikato pig farm faces record $437k fine for discharging effluent to land, water" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/waikato-pig-farm-faces-record-437k-fine-for-discharging-effluent-to-land-water/" aria-label="Read more about Waikato pig farm faces record $437k fine for discharging effluent to land, water">Read more</a>
