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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The baby was taken to Christchurch Hospital with serious unexplained injuries. RNZ / Nate McKinnon The mother of a five-month-old baby on life support after suffering serious unexplained injuries including a brain bleed says she’s “angry, confused” and desperate for answers. She says the baby, who RNZ has chosen not to ... <a title="Mother of baby who suffered serious injuries desperate for answers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/mother-of-baby-who-suffered-serious-injuries-desperate-for-answers/" aria-label="Read more about Mother of baby who suffered serious injuries desperate for answers">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mandar Oak, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Adelaide University Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suffered a rare defeat last week after a bill to reserve one-third of seats in the lower house of parliament for women failed to get enough support. The bill was paired with another ... <a title="Why did Indian lawmakers vote against ensuring more women in parliament?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/why-did-indian-lawmakers-vote-against-ensuring-more-women-in-parliament-281535/" aria-label="Read more about Why did Indian lawmakers vote against ensuring more women in parliament?">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stella Huangfu, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney Australia’s inflation rate surged 1.1% in March, driven by a record jump in fuel prices, making an interest rate hike next Tuesday more likely. The consumer price index (CPI), released today, rose to 4.6% in the year ... <a title="Australia’s inflation surge just made an RBA rate rise more likely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/australias-inflation-surge-just-made-an-rba-rate-rise-more-likely-281540/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s inflation surge just made an RBA rate rise more likely">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Jason Brooke 1news tonight featured a report on the War in Ukraine. The reporter, a foreign war correspondent, explained to viewers how Ukrainian soldiers were increasingly using long-range high-tech drones to target Russian infrastructure. Now while not explicitly stated, the narrative being delivered through our particularly “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are ... <a title="‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/self-defence-and-the-contradictions-of-western-exceptionalism-in-our-media/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A farmer with a farm fuel tank. SUPPLIED/LEVNO Australasian bosses across agriculture, aviation and freight sectors are in the ear of their government officials in dealing with the chaotic global supply chain. The government announced on Tuesday it secured an initial agreement with Z Energy to procure an additional 90 million ... <a title="New Zealand and Australia collaborate on fuel, fertiliser pressures with agriculture, aviation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/new-zealand-and-australia-collaborate-on-fuel-fertiliser-pressures-with-agriculture-aviation/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand and Australia collaborate on fuel, fertiliser pressures with agriculture, aviation">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Supplied New Zealand’s wool industry is looking to spin a sustainable future backed by farming from its farmers and industry. Wool-producing farmers paid a wool levy for many years that helped promote the sector, build markets and fund research and development. But dissatisfied sheep farmers voted to disestablish the governing New ... <a title="Transparency vital to possible revival of sheep farmers’ wool levy, Federated Farmers says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/transparency-vital-to-possible-revival-of-sheep-farmers-wool-levy-federated-farmers-says/" aria-label="Read more about Transparency vital to possible revival of sheep farmers’ wool levy, Federated Farmers says">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand One person has been seriously injured. Supplied / Ken Cox Firefighters have extinguished a fire that tore through a Timaru industrial premises this morning. One person was seriously injured and taken to Christchurch Hospital by helicopter. Fire and Emergency was called to the fire in High Street shortly before 9am on ... <a title="Person hurt as blaze tears through large industrial building" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/person-hurt-as-blaze-tears-through-large-industrial-building/" aria-label="Read more about Person hurt as blaze tears through large industrial building">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Green Party candidate for Māngere Michel Mulipola. Layla Bailey-McDowell / RNZ The Greens are defending their candidate for Māngere, saying now he has been selected he will be expected to meet different standards of behaviour. Michel Mulipola was recently confirmed as the Green Party candidate for the South Auckland seat of ... <a title="Greens defend Māngere candidate Michel Mulipola for past social media posts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/greens-defend-mangere-candidate-michel-mulipola-for-past-social-media-posts/" aria-label="Read more about Greens defend Māngere candidate Michel Mulipola for past social media posts">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand National MP Grant McCallum accepts a petition from ultra-marathon swimmer Jono Ridler to ban bottom trawling. Giles Dexter Ultra-marathon swimmer Jono Ridler has handed his bottom trawling ban petition over to Parliament, with a National MP hinting the party will take a policy on bottom trawling to the election. The petition ... <a title="Ultra-marathon swimmer Jono Ridler delivers petition to ban bottom trawling to Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/ultra-marathon-swimmer-jono-ridler-delivers-petition-to-ban-bottom-trawling-to-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Ultra-marathon swimmer Jono Ridler delivers petition to ban bottom trawling to Parliament">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Everlee Wihongi has been in US detention since the start of April. Supplied A New Zealand woman who is being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US will spend another six weeks in a detention facility awaiting her next hearing with a judge. Everlee Wihongi was taken into ICE ... <a title="Kiwi being held in ICE detention faces another 6 weeks in facility before new hearing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/kiwi-being-held-in-ice-detention-faces-another-6-weeks-in-facility-before-new-hearing/" aria-label="Read more about Kiwi being held in ICE detention faces another 6 weeks in facility before new hearing">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman. Aotearoa Media Collective Mike Hosking says TVNZ threatened legal action against NZME if it was to publish a story about its political editor allegedly using a homophobic slur. On Tuesday, Finance Minister Nicola Willis said she shut down an event in her office last year after ... <a title="Mike Hosking says TVNZ ‘threatened to sue us’ over Maiki Sherman story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/mike-hosking-says-tvnz-threatened-to-sue-us-over-maiki-sherman-story/" aria-label="Read more about Mike Hosking says TVNZ ‘threatened to sue us’ over Maiki Sherman story">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hart, Emeritus Faculty, US government and politics specialist, Australian National University US President Donald Trump is quickly approaching a deadline to wrap up his war against Iran – or he’ll be in breach of US law. Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, a US president can ... <a title="Under US law, Trump faces an impending deadline to end the Iran war. What happens if he ignores it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/under-us-law-trump-faces-an-impending-deadline-to-end-the-iran-war-what-happens-if-he-ignores-it-281728/" aria-label="Read more about Under US law, Trump faces an impending deadline to end the Iran war. What happens if he ignores it?">Read more</a>
