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April 14, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Bennett, Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has grown too big, too fast. The NDIS is a government-funded program providing support to more than 760,000 disabled Australians. It launched in 2013 as a way to make disability support more accessible and ... <a title="The government wants to curb NDIS spending. Here’s how it might succeed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/the-government-wants-to-curb-ndis-spending-heres-how-it-might-succeed-280033/" aria-label="Read more about The government wants to curb NDIS spending. Here’s how it might succeed">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Kaveh As an Iranian living in New Zealand, I wake up every morning to the quiet green hills and the calm sea, but my mind is always thousands of kilometres away in Iran. The news from home hits differently when you are far away. You feel helpless, but you sometimes also see things ... <a title="Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their own future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/why-iran-will-never-break-and-iranians-will-decide-their-own-future/" aria-label="Read more about Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their own future">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand On average the payout was calculated to be around $400,000 each. RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes Fonterra’s thousands of shareholding dairy farmers are being encouraged to spend their Mainland Group capital return wisely with a focus on farm resilience. Tuesday marked the payday for around 8000 shareholders of the co-operative for the ... <a title="Cashed-up dairy farmers urged to spend wisely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/cashed-up-dairy-farmers-urged-to-spend-wisely/" aria-label="Read more about Cashed-up dairy farmers urged to spend wisely">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Multiple ambulances’ tyres have been slashed in separate incidents at Hate Hone St John bases in Auckland. Supplied / NZ Police Multiple ambulances’ tyres have been slashed in separate incidents at Hate Hone St John bases in Auckland in the last couple of months. Police were investigating two attacks which saw ... <a title="Ambulances’ tyres slashed again in Auckland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/ambulances-tyres-slashed-again-in-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about Ambulances’ tyres slashed again in Auckland">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand One of the coolest clubs in music will soon have some new members. Late R&B singer Luther Vandross, hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan and Oasis will all be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, the group has announced. In all, 18 artists made the cut across four ... <a title="The 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/the-2026-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-inductees/" aria-label="Read more about The 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Horvath, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University The landslide victory of Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party in Hungary’s parliamentary election represents much more than a routine change of government. It marks the fall of an “electoral autocracy”, a regime that used elections to shroud and legitimise a system ... <a title="He exposed corruption and walked across Hungary. Now Péter Magyar has defeated a powerful state machine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/he-exposed-corruption-and-walked-across-hungary-now-peter-magyar-has-defeated-a-powerful-state-machine-280455/" aria-label="Read more about He exposed corruption and walked across Hungary. Now Péter Magyar has defeated a powerful state machine">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Quin Tauetau New Zealanders forking out more for fuel are obscuring a significant drop in other types of spending, Retail NZ says. Worldline data for March showed card spending overall rose 0.5 percent but Retail NZ chief executive Carolyn Young said it hid a 33 percent surge at petrol ... <a title="Spending data worse than it appears, Retail NZ says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/spending-data-worse-than-it-appears-retail-nz-says/" aria-label="Read more about Spending data worse than it appears, Retail NZ says">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Armed police guarding the scene in Lower Hutt. RNZ Police have named a deceased man at the centre of a homicide investigation in the Wellington region. Nathaniel Sturmey, 29, was found dead at a property on Malone Road in Lower Hutt on 9 April. Detective Inspector Jamie Woods said police have ... <a title="Police name victim at centre of Wellington homicide probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/police-name-victim-at-centre-of-wellington-homicide-probe/" aria-label="Read more about Police name victim at centre of Wellington homicide probe">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maddison Sideris, Associate Teaching Fellow, Sociology, Deakin University Being a single woman isn’t the social taboo it once was. Singlehood seems to be on the rise, with more single person households, and more women choosing to marry later in life, or not at all. It could even ... <a title="‘I never really know how to answer that’: why do women still have to justify being single?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/i-never-really-know-how-to-answer-that-why-do-women-still-have-to-justify-being-single-279967/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I never really know how to answer that’: why do women still have to justify being single?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand 123RF A parcel courier company has been ordered to pay three former employees a total of $50,000 for unjustified dismissal, unjustified disadvantage and humiliation. The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) delivered the ruling against Fast Horse Limited (trading as Fast Horse Express), based in the central Auckland suburb of Avondale, on Monday. ... <a title="Auckland courier company to pay $50,000 for unjustified dismissal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/auckland-courier-company-to-pay-50000-for-unjustified-dismissal/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland courier company to pay $50,000 for unjustified dismissal">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warlpa Thompson, Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owner of Mutawintji National Park, Indigenous Knowledge Hidden among the red sandstone escarpments of Mutawintji National Park in western New South Wales lives a rare lizard, long isolated in this arid landscape. Known to Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owners as kungaka – “the hidden one” ... <a title="Meet kungaka – ‘the hidden one’. This ancient lizard could be the rarest reptile in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/meet-kungaka-the-hidden-one-this-ancient-lizard-could-be-the-rarest-reptile-in-australia-279561/" aria-label="Read more about Meet kungaka – ‘the hidden one’. This ancient lizard could be the rarest reptile in Australia">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2026
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on April 14, 2026.
